whiffwaffle wrote:
> --- 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:
>
I'm not 100% sure, but I thought that they are locked partitions that
may contain windows drivers or other junk required to make the SD card
work on windows.
Either way, I wouldn't worry about it. If fdisk will get rid of them,
then I'd run a 1 partition setup. If not, just use the third partition,
and perform the file system copy using that partition only.
Cheers,
-Brett
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