Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

Thanks for the list of corruption problems. Schmots points this out in his blog guide (see Post #2 of this thread). I may have had a corruption problem on a Transcend card but I didn't know about fsck then and ended up doing a clone from scratch. My problems were

-MicroB browser wouldn't load
-Apps wouldn't install

Now I run fsck occasionally as a prophylactic. I don't know if this works. (Though I haven't gotten pregnant yet.) Out of maybe 4 runs, once it reported that it fixed an error. (I've run it with Schmots's variables that make it fix problems automatically, which maybe forces it to report less, too, I don't know.)

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

After rereading the instructions it looks like the only place I would need to hook up via USB is if I want to reflash my system. If I just wanted to clone a copy of what I have working on my N810 couldn't I skip step 3, and in 4d copy the files from pc to SD thence to Documents on the Flash Drive.
And then all else just goes as written.

Should this work?

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

Video center runs an order of magnitude better on flash boot. True for both N800, N810. Video center runs the same on flash boot or MMC boot on 770.

bun

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

Actually, you won't need USB at all. You can just use your NIT's built-in browser to download the zipped file from Rapidshare. Just unzip on the Tablet and move it to the same place as I say in the directions.

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

Do you need to be booted into flash to clone using Acronis True Image?

I wound up redoing it since I was having trouble with CPU usage when my external 16 GB SDHC was in. So I divided up my 16 GB and used it for the internal. Though now it reports that I can only extend my virtual memory up to 96 MBs.. which is kinda odd (I have about 3.5 GBs for the device memory and the rest 11+ GBs is now internal memory).

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

I copy or back up the clone with Acronis with two USB ports; in one is the SD card with the OS on it, and in the other is either another SD card or a flash drive (which can be much smaller than the card you're copying, depending how much the card is filled). No NIT there at all.

The only-96mb-for-vm I don't get.

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

Yeah, I don't understand it myself. But I can't really see it affecting much (heck I can play Battle of Wesnoth even with 96 MBs extended) so I'm fine with it.

Oddly when I'm booted into flash, it still says I can only extend to 96 MBs. *shrugs* must be something with the FAT partition. It was working at 128 MBs earlier. Maybe I'll do a chdisk in Windows with it sometime.

I'll have to figure out how to back it up then using the NIT then. Since I don't have an SDHC reader (I've been using the Panasonic format utility with the SD HC cards in the NIT).

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

Then maybe you can do the Acronis with the card in the NIT, too. But Acronis is going to make you have something to clone the partition onto. I couldn't get it to make a partition image onto the hard drive. (It's possible that you can get it to do that, too, though; if you look at Acronis, you'll see something about making a special Acronis partition, and maybe if you do that it will let you.)

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

Yeah, I just tried it and I can use it to do it through the NIT. Just gotta find a partition to clone it too. >.<

Bad thing about having a 16 GB SDHC..you need a 16 GB sized partition for it. >.<

Re: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
 

If you mean a 16GB card or flash drive to copy the partition to or to back it up to, no you don't. As I said earlier, Acronis will make a smaller copy or backup, how small depending on how much data, etc. is on the original and how much compression is applied.