Cloning Ipaqs - Thankyou and Doc suggestion

Jamey,

The Cloning instructions work great!! I used an NFS mounted partition to
'dd' the root partition out of the ipaq, since some of the nls_xxx
modules necessary for writing on the IBM Microdrive are not in the
Familiar release I am using. Then I copied the root image file alone to
the Microdrive, put the Microdrive into the clonee ipaq, and went through
your steps for the 'Option B' method using the bootldr, and in only 2
minutes from that point, I have a clone!
I have a single file, /etc/hostnum with the line 'HOSTNUM=99' which I
change for each clone, for things like setting the IP address. It looks
like from your TODO list, that I will soon be able to write the root
image file to the Microdrive from within bootldr. This will be even
faster than currently.

I wonder if the ability of doing this using a CF card instead of a
Microdrive will make it into bootldr in the near future.

SUGGESTIONs for documentation.

I noted that I can put the latest familiar task-bootnet.jffs2 or any
other root image on the Microdrive, go thru the steps, and quickly have
the desired installation. This is much much FASTER than XMODEM over
serial cable. Perhaps this should be noted in the Familiar install
instructions as an alternative for those owning a Microdrive or other
compatible IDE pccard interface.

    Maybe the instructions should be moved/duped from the 'filesystem'
FAQ to the 'bootldr' FAQ

    It would be helpful to summarize the clone src and clone destination
commands
    at the beginning without all the output :

 ver
 sleeve insert
 pcmcia insert
 vfat mount 0
 vfat read 0xc2000000 rootimg.jf2 (or whatever root image file name)
    (Note the number of bytes reported at the end of 'vfat read' as
"RC=NUM" )
    (or, type: 'partition show', and note the root size, use this as
NUM).
  program root 0xc2000000 0x[NUM] # where NUM was reported, or use
        NUM= 0x00fc0000 # max for 16Meg copy, H3600
        NUM=0x01fc0000 # max for 32Meg copy, H3700
        NUM=0x00480000 # for task-netboot.jffs2

    It would be helpful to note that the file size that is to be used as
the last
    parameter of the 'program' command, is the last item report by the
    'vfat read' as with "rc=00fc0000" for instance

Again, Thank you!
Mark

"Hicks, Jamey" wrote:

>
> Here's a cut at those instructions:
>
> http://www.handhelds.org/handhelds-faq/filesystems.html#CLONING-IPAQS
>
> Jamey
Received on Wed Mar 20 2002 - 22:09:25 EST