Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

re-download the file, its not the full file

also make sure to save the file in like documents, not on the SD card

also install-tools only works with one SD card installed. so only have the SD card you want to partition in the system

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

ok so it did it now... had to reinstall and then it worked. How do I not boot from flash? When it starts up it dosent give me an option to swith. How do i choose?

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

matthew thers a bootmenu...with a 30second time out...by default it boots from the sd card...

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

If you dont see a menu when booting, you need to reinstall again

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

As I said, yes - I looked at Fanoush's stuff, but I don't know specifically what the bootmenu in my old config had set. I just want the bootmenu.conf, I guess, that is compatible with your package. Maybe I'll see how simple it is to open the deb file? Do you use the default menu as Fanoush defined it? I don't think so from what I can see...

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

Okay.. for thos on Windows (with no access to LINUX) - use 7zip to extract the files in the .DEB file, open the control.tar.gz with somethng like WinRar or WinZip, extract "install-tools.tgz" and look for "bootmenu.conf" - which is NOT in Fanoush's package. This looks to be the menu that is installed, verbatim. I will flash and let you all know how I get on.

Penguinbait, some of us need this kind of hand holding. I'm a power user, just not a LINUX or even Debian power user. I got the file I needed in the end, but why did I need to go through all this pain to find it? If you are making it easy to boot from SD, could you also make it easy to replace the bootmenu after reflashing too? :-)

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

This is designed to do a set of specific tasks. You want only some of those tasks done. Simply thats not the way it works. If you want the control over your system like an advanced user then do some reading. My deb is designed to clone, not just install bootmenu. I am sure I have helped many many people boot from sd when they could not previously.

It would have been much easier to use Fanoushes package and bootmenu.conf, then go through all the stuff you did to extract bootmenu.conf from my package. Its just Fanoushes anyway, I just edited the example.

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

I love your DEB, it works well. But you are missing my point. I don't know anything about what was *in* your bootmenu.conf and I don't have time to learn how Fanoush's stuff works. All I needed to do was *get* the boot menu and then the rest, as someone else stated, was simple. But if I have no idea how you altered the bootmenu.conf, the only way I was going to get an answer was:

a) From you directly (you didn't actually give any answer that was helpful)
b) From unpacking the DEB file
c) From trial and error.

I'm sorry you feel that your work is unappreciated by me. I enjoy the results of your labour every day. But if you created a package to do the reinstall after flash, you'd save yourself the hassle of people asking you for that part over and over again. Remeber, RTFM is neither a helpful answer to a question nor is it going to help clueless non LINUX users (I count myself in that boat.) OS X or Windows I know... BeOS ever... LINUX.. nope.

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

I think you are missing my point. I made software and it works good for its purpose. You want software that does something different that what I made.

"Remeber, RTFM is neither a helpful answer to a question nor is it going to help clueless non LINUX users"

Did I tell you to RTFM?? NO, I created a simple deb that anyone can use. Supporting people wanting to do things my deb does not do, is not my problem. I pointed you to the correct location "fanoush" the rest is up to you. Find the thread that discusses bootmenu and ask your questions in the right place.




"I got the file I needed in the end, but why did I need to go through all this pain to find it? If you are making it easy to boot from SD, could you also make it easy to replace the bootmenu after reflashing too?"

The reason you had to go through the pain is because you wanted the deb to do something it is not intended to do.

My deb is made for cloning, not just installing bootmenu. Fanoush's package is for intalling bootmenu


""bootmenu.conf" - which is NOT in Fanoush's package"

Yes it actually is "bootmenu.conf.n8x0.example" and bootmenu.conf.n770.example

"But if you created a package to do the reinstall after flash, you'd save yourself the hassle of people asking you for that part over and over again"

No hassle, I can say "no" over and over again.

I could make a deb to do what you are asking. I however have lots of stuff on my plate with what "I" actually want to do. Then there is that pesky job, and those 4 kids and a wife to contend with.

am I just being a dick again? It doesnt feel like it, but I am a bad judge ;)

Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
 

wow you have 4 kids...can i send you some cats...i agree with pb on this...memson seriously read alot....im one of those who wont do anything like what you want to do without reading...look on other places...ask fanoush./...but do it in pm...leave the threads clean...