--- In "Breton M. Saunders"
<> wrote:
> 1) Get a linux x86 box, running something modern like ubuntu 8.04 or
better.
> 2) Get a linux compatible USB SD card reader.
> 3) Put the source sd card in, and mount the linux partition. Tar
its
> contents up to a file in /tmp or something for archiving.
> 4) Swap to the new sdcard. Fdisk it, and ensure the partition
layout is
> (roughly) the same - e.g. partition 3 is a linux one.
> 5) mke2fs the target file system.
> 6) Mount the target filesystem
> 7) Untar the archive file's contents to the target partition.
I have actually tried this but I'm not sure what partition 1 & 2 are
or how to properly set them up. When I put the card in my PC, it
mounts two of the partitions; the Linux partition and another
partition (sdc2) as ext2 that contains the following:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2007-07-17 16:21 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2006-06-22 18:12 dev
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 1969-12-31 19:04 etc -> /mnt/root/etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7024 2006-06-22 18:16 fbcon-cfb16.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6772 2006-06-22 18:16 fbgen.o
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1969-12-31 19:01 home -> /mnt/root/home/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 1969-12-31 19:00 lib -> /mnt/root/lib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3853 2008-04-29 15:24 linuxrc
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2006-06-15 17:22 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2006-05-22 18:39 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-07-19 13:19 onboardflash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 1969-12-31 19:01 opt -> /mnt/root/opt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2006-05-18 19:40 proc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 1969-12-31 19:01 root -> /mnt/root/root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 1969-12-31 19:00 sbin -> /mnt/root/sbin/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20708 2007-08-20 18:28 sdcard.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2007-07-06 12:00 serial-shinit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 1969-12-31 19:00 serialsh.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218 2007-07-06 14:03 shinit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2503 1969-12-31 19:00 splash.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1281 2007-07-13 19:22 stage2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 1969-12-31 19:00 tmp -> /mnt/root/tmp/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6288 2007-02-28 16:58 ts7300fb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5454 2007-07-18 19:32 ts7xxx.subr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 1969-12-31 19:00 usr -> /mnt/root/usr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 1969-12-31 19:00 var -> /mnt/root/var
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 275 1969-12-31 19:00 vid-shinit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 1969-12-31 19:00 vidsh.pid
Do you know what these other two partitions are?
> whiffwaffle wrote:
> > SD card that works:
> > Disk /dev/sdc: 1019 MB, 1019215872 bytes
> > 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3888 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdc1 1 6 1520 da Non-FS
data
> > /dev/sdc2 7 10 1024 da Non-FS
data
> > /dev/sdc3 20 3850 980736 83 Linux
> >
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