From: Hicks, Jamey (Jamey.Hicks@hp.com)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 08:16:26 EDT
I wrote a section on cloning ipaq installations that is in:
http://www.handhelds.org/handhelds-faq/filesystems.html
I see it's a bit outdated. Once you have a jffs2 image in a vfat filesystem on a CF card or pcmcia hard drive, you can install it via the bootldr:
boot> vfat ls
boot> copy hda1:root.img root
where root.img is the name of the image file in the vfat filesystem.
Jamey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin.hickey@amd.com [mailto:kevin.hickey@amd.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:53 PM
> To: bootldr@handhelds.org
> Subject: [Bootldr] Flashing large image
>
>
> I'm working on a project involving Linux on iPaq 3700's. I
> used the Familiar distribution with bootloader 2.18.01 to
> setup a prototype unit. I now need some clones of that unit
> for production. About 26 MB of the flash is occupied. I
> used the "upload flash" command to generate an image on my
> desktop machine then tried to write it back using "load root"
> to validate it. The download ( which took about 75 minutes )
> got to within several seconds of completing then the iPaq's
> screen went blank and the connection was lost. I also tried
> generating the image with "upload root" which resulted in a
> 32 MB file. Is this the right way to go about this? If not,
> is there a good way to clone disk images? Is there a known
> issue with loading large files? I really appreciate any
> suggestions you can provide and your continuing efforts on
> this great piece of software - the iPaq/Linux solution saved
> my project countless hours and dollars. Thanks!
>
> Kevin Hickey
> AMD - Software Research and Development
> Phone: (512) 602-4951
> Smart BurnIn / SmartBob
>
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