Thread: Cloning OS to SD Card: Simplified instructions
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2008-01-01 , 00:18
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#104
Originally Posted by ipse View Post
Thanks Milhouse! One last (!) question: can I copy the content of SD into flash (reverse cloning)?
I want to use my N800 booted from SD at all times (just as a safety measure), but inevitably the 2 versions will be out-of-sync (due to updates and new sw installed).

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I guess it should be possible; The root filesystem for internal flash can be accessed by mounting /dev/mtdblock4 then erasing it (I'm not sure if it's possible to format the jffs2 partition) and tranferring your OS from MMC/SD...
 

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