Re: Fast Restoring and Cloning Linux and WinCE via CF cards

From: Sacha Chua (sachac@subdimension.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 09:10:58 EST

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On 01 Apr, Mark G. Lewis (Lewis@erg.sri.com) said:

> To save my own configuration of linux for cloning, I
> dd if=/dev/mtdblock/1 of= (some mounted partition, NFS or
> microdrive)
> Soon, I think the bootldrs will be able to 'vfat write root' to CF
> or other drives, allowing the clone copying to be all done in
> the bootldr.

We _do_ have
vfat write <address> <filename> [nbytes]
and
ide write_partition <address> <partno> [nbytes]

which don't quite do a vfat write root yet, but I should be able to hack
that in soon... Definitely a good idea.

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