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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] making a backup of a sd card for insertion into a new ts-7500
From: Jon Brinkmann <>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:02:26 +0000
I've done this many times, using Hiren's Boot CD on a PC.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:06:53AM -0800,  wrote:
>
>
> does anybody have a script for backing up the 2GB SD card onto a different SD
> card, I have to make a software load for a bunch of ts-7500 and would like to
> have a "master" SD card that I can duplicate loaded up with my software.
> Ideally the script would run on a TS-7500 (maybe boot from one USB drive, copy
> the 2gb  sd card that is on the ts7500 to the other USB drive) but I can also
> use a lubuntu intallation on a pc.   I'm worried about the MAC address when I
> make an image backup and use the 2db card on a different ts-7500.
>
>
> I tried taking the 2gb sd card out of the ts-7500, putting in in a card reader
> on a desktop lubuntu machine, and then backing up the image using the dd
> command.   I then put a different 2gb sd card into the card reader and used 
> the
> dd command to write that image onto the card but the boot fails.
>
>
> >> TS-BOOTROM - built Apr  2 2013 12:12:02
> >> Copyright (c) 2013, Technologic Systems
> >> Booting from onboard flash...
> .
> .
> .
> Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
> Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
> Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.
> Activating swap...done.
> Cleaning up ifupdown....
> Loading kernel modules...done.
> Checking file systems...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> done.
> Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.conf)...done.
> Mounting local filesystems...done.
> Activating swapfile swap...done.
> Setting up networking....
> Configuring network interfaces...done.
> Starting portmap daemon....
> Starting NFS common utilities: statd.
> Setting up ALSA...done (none loaded).
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
> Starting system message bus: dbus.
> Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
> Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
> Starting NFS common utilities: statd.
> Starting internet superserver: inetd.
> Starting bluetooth: hcid.
> Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.
> Starting web server: apache2.
> + exit 0
> INIT: Id "T0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>
>
> the line "+exit 0"   is the last line of the rc.local file.
>
> I never get the "login:" prompt on the console, if I ping the box it is
> unresponsive, If I telnet to the box it is unresponsive, but if I hit its
> webserver I get the index.html page.
>
>
> 


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