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

Excellent post, very convenient. But I met the same problem as "Unable to connect via USB. memory card in use: Internal memory card". I don't know how to modify the .sh file. I nearlly know nothing about linux.
GeraldKo, could you tell me the detailed procedure to modify the osso-mmc-umount.sh? Thanks.

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

Well, mjjiang, I know almost no Linux either! But I don't understand your question. If this relates to the guide, at what step does your problem first arise? What message do you get at that point?

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

Control Panel>Memory is known to have bug and not reliable, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=11824. Go maemo.org/gronmayer.com search for Diskusage of your OS, dl and install it. That would give you an idea where/what ALL your disk partitions are.

bun

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

What I mean is to modify the .sh file as below:
from:


Code:
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
umount $MP 2> /dev/null
fi
RC=$?
else
# it is not mounted
RC=0
fi
to:

Code:
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
if [ "$MP" != "/" ] ; then umount $MP 2> /dev/null ; fi
RC=$?
else
# it is not mounted
RC=0
fi


Can I move the file to my XP desktop and modify it? Or there is a more convenient way? Thanks.

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

This is over my head. Maybe someone else will be of more help. (Someone who knows Linux!) And maybe this is beneath your level, but: You can also edit files in emelFM2. Select the file and click the icon of a page with a pencil on it.

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

I have diskusage but there's nothing that says swap. And interestingly, after installing KDE (I still have 1 GB free left on my device memory), 8 GBs free on my internal memory card, and 2 GBs free on my external. My virtual memory has dropped from 96 MB to 0. And it tells me I do not have enough space to extend virtual memory.

Curious as to see if this is actually the case I did the only thing I knew how. Got into root and did "free" (linux command for memory).

Swap reports 0 0 0. O.O

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

I suppose you could, but that would be a hassle. (copying it over, then editting it then copying it back with the right permissions and all).

You could just edit the file in the terminal as well. With nano or vi. Likely "sudo vi nameoffile.sh" then just edit it and save.

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

When KDE is running, diskusage shows a new swap drive.


bun

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

I'm aware that KDE does create its own swap but does Hildon/Maemo use it? Anyway I had restarted my tablet at this point so KDE hadn't been started up again and it still reported no swap partition (as well as that 0, 0, 0 thing from free).

I'm wondering if there is a swap or not though (maybe it's just not being reported), considering some apps I run pretty much need swap or they would crash according to posters (e.g. wesnoth) and they seem to run just fine still.

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

Thanks for the tutorial!

I wanted to clone my personalized OS on my N810 (A) on my friend's N810 (B).

I followed the procedure closely for the two NITs... Starting with the tweaked OS on A and a fresh install on B..


The only minor problem was the links for the external memory card are different on the N810.

umount /media/mmc2 [someone with an N810 … is this mmc2? If not, please PM me and I'll make a change here]
sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0 -uM [note: that's a zero, not a capital letter O]

Actually, on the N810, the external card is /media/mmc1 .. and the link is /dev/mmcblk1

After everything was done, I only had to take the card from A and insert it in B, and press 'home' at reboot to select the external card.

I didn't notice any glitch, yet.. though the exact same configuration for two different hardware may have few consequences.

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Now, the NITs boot by default on the internal memory (previous OS). How can I change?