maemo.org - Talk - Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!

NOT FOR USE ON 43-7 or above - NO LONGER BEING UPDATED

I made a DEB that will clone the currently running OS to a 2GB CARD. It will also clone it to bigger/smaller cards but its not really setup for that.

Notice if you want to install KDE using the KDE boot from SD deb.
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=19675
On a 2GB card, you need to use a fresh flash. If you install a bunch of apps there will not be enough space to finish KDEv2 installation. However once KDEv2 is installed, there will be about 330MB free.

1GB
1: 64MB FAT
2: 872GB EXT2 (BOOT)
3: 64MB SWAP

2GB
1: 128MB FAT
2: 1.75GB EXT2 (BOOT)
3: 128MB SWAP

4GB
1: 256MB FAT
2: 3.5GB EXT2 (BOOT)
3: 256MB SWAP

6GB
1: 384MB FAT
2: 5.255GB EXT2 (BOOT)
3: 384MB SWAP

8GB
1: 512MB FAT
2: 6.6GB EXT2 (BOOT)
3: 512MB SWAP

My initial build is only for N800 (either SD slot) or N810 IF YOU WANT TO CLONE TO THE INTERNAL 2GB CARD. This will not work on the n810 with a SD card. See bottom of page for 810 external slot install deb.

(SEE BELOW) for a link to the DEB if you want to try it out. NOTICE (It may HOSE your device and cause you to REFLASH your OS.)
Use at own risk. Take backups of any important data before continuing.

The new deb will partition your SD/MMC card, clone the Flash to the card. Install Boot Menu (with telnet support). Then you just reboot to your new menu and partition.

Please (See Below) to test and please post your experiences out here...

Thanks

pb

This will partition and format SD card
This will clone currently running OS to SD card
This will install bootmenu (with telnet recovery)
This will fsck all EXT2 partitions on SD cards when booted to flash (plays wav when complete) (view log /tmp/fsck.txt)
This will add sudo ALL=ALL in /etc/sudoers (gives you root access "sudo su -") Only on cloned partition not on flash

USE AT OWN RISK

-- This will remove ALL current data on you SD card --

-- This will remove ALL current data on you SD card --

-- This will remove ALL current data on you SD card --

-- This will remove ALL current data on you SD card --

AGAIN THIS IS FOR EITHER SLOT IN N800, AND ONLY WILL INSTALL TO INSTERNAL 2gb ON N810. iT WILL NOT CURRENTLY INSTALL TO N810 WITH A SD CARD (see special 810 external info at bottom).

YOU WILL NEED 20MB FREE IN FLASH BEFORE INSTALLING.

ONLY 1 SD CARD CAN BE INSERTED DURING INSTALL PROCESS. IF TWO ARE INSTALLED THE INSTALL WILL FAIL. REMOVE THE CARD and reinstall the DEB AND START AGAIN.

IF YOU COMPLETE THE INSTALL AND THE CLONE WONT BOOT, OR IF THE INSTALL FAILS. BOOT/REBOOT BACK TO FLASH AND RUN IT A SECOND TIME (LET IT UPDATE) THIS SHOULD FIX IT. SOME CARDS SEEM TO NEED TO BE REBOOTED BEFORE BEING USEFULL AFTER PARTITIONING

Go to penguinbait.com

right click on "INSTALL TOOLS"

"save target as" (SAVE FILE ON FLASH NOT ON SD CARD)

Save the file somewhere, open application manager and select "install from file" from the menu. Select the file you just saved.

Once the install completes, reboot for your new bootmenu and select your SD card on boot.

PLEASE SEND ME LOG FROM APPLICATION MANAGER IF YOU GET A FAILURE :)

Thanks everyone, especially Fanoush (As Usual)

This deb steals all Fanoushes great work and packs it up with some scripting for my uses. If you would like to reinstall initfs with different options please see link below to Fanoush's home page
http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/

For those who were asking, I created a N810 external slot version of the boot from SD deb.

Get it from http://penguinbait.com

"INSTALL TOOLS EXTERNAL 810 SLOT"

After install it can be uninstalled from both Flash and SD.

Supported Versions, (Not tested on 770)
Nokia 770 - IT2006 versions 1.2006.26-8, 2.2006.39-14, 3.2006.49-2, IT2007 hacker edition 2.2006.48-7, 4.2007.36-2
N800 - IT2007 versions 2.2006.51-6, 3.2007.10-7, 4.2007.26-8, 4.2007.38-2

N800,N810 - IT2008 versions 1.2007.42-18, 1.2007.42-19, 2.2007.50-2, 4.2008.23-14 (Diablo), 4.2008.30-2 (first Diablo update), 4.2008.36-5

TROUBLESHOOTING

MENU WILL NOT APPEAR
boot to flash and open xterm and become root and run the following command:
chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:flash
Instead of flash, you can also set the default boot image to be mmcX

mmc2 is partition 2 on internal
mmc3 is partition 3 on internal
mmc12 is partition 2 on external
mmc13 is partition 3 on external

Your menu will not display until you set it to ask:somthing then reboot.