RE: [ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory

[pierrot lafouine <>]

Take the FLASh out of the TS and put it on a SD card reader on your Linux PC.
In console write commands :
dmesg | tail

You should see someting like this :
[188307.934633] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[188307.935617] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 3842048 512-byte hardware sectors (1967 MB)
[188307.936240] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[188307.936242] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 08
[188307.936244] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[188307.936247]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
In this specific case SD card reader is mounted on sdb (see [sdb])

Then copy your flash to a file :
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/yourpath/yourfilename.dd

To copy yourfilename.dd to new flash (must be same size):
dd if=/yourpath/yourfilename.dd of=/dev/sdb

Just be careful with syntax and with dd commands, you can make big mess.
Cheers!

Pierre

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons
(Popular Mechanics, 1949)

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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:48:54 +0000
Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory

 

Ok, this posting appeared a long time ago, but it looks like nobody answered it so far.

I have the same problem: One TS-7800 was set up with a lot of effort, and now I want to copy the whole flash memory to ten more TS-7800's as simple and less error prone as possible.
Maybe via the SD-card or an USB-stick or even via SSH, I don't care, but what is the way to create several clones of one embeddedARM?

Thanks a lot
Achim

--- In m("yahoogroups.com","ts-7000");">.com, Janne Mäntyharju <janne.mantyharju@...> wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> Is it possible to make image of whole flash memory contents using
> redboot (kernel + root image)? How to write image back to new device?
> I have one prototype of device using TS-7250 ready and I'm searching for
> easiest way to clone contents of it.
>
> Thanks for reply!
>

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