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NOT FOR USE ON 43-7 or above - NO LONGER BEING UPDATED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

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

Is it also working with Os2007He?

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

Brilliant!

Easiest as it gets :)

One thing though , is bootmenu optional? I already have a modded copy installed :)

(This sounds easier than the clone scripts though, I had to run the script 5 times last time :))

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At the moment bootmenu will be installed along with this deb. Its made for a one stop shop to install.

That said perhaps I can alter the install to only install bootmenu if its not installed. But that may take a while before I get to it. You can install it even if you have bootmenu, but this will replace your custom install...

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Maybe 2008HE, but untested. I really need to get a 770 for testing...

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Might want to edit the first post; unless I missed it, it doesn't come right out and say I will eat all data on your SD card! I assume that's true, since I guess you're not doing filesystem resizing, like a typical desktop distro's install. Which could confuse somebody, better to change it first...

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Can't wait for the automated rotation kernel support deb installer ;)

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

I second the nomination! :D

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

OK guys, explain to me why I should do this?

I did just test this on KDE and I can't turn it sideways but upside down now works perfectly. nice

I went through the install and it was not that bad. I suppose a deb to install kernel and xomap would be nice. but again my install went perfectly

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Can't go sideways? is that a "KDE doesn't know what to do with 480px width"? or the display won't rotate at all?
I know XV doesn't work in portrait mode, but I'd have thought K would get by fine...

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

I think emjayes is the closest with automatic rotation. But is it really that hard to install? I've done 7 installs of rotation with no problem.

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Well it actually works, kind of that is? I turns the display sideways but you cannot see the whole screen, there is a black spot on the bottom and the right half of the screen is off the side. I can use the whole screen, but taskbar is running right through the middle of the screen.

I am still playing :)

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What am I doing wrong? The install goes through the motions and then complains about not enough memory. The internal memory went from ~40M down to 1kb. I have a 2G SD card in the external slot that was empty other than the .deb install file. I ran it again after clearing more space but I'm down to no space again. I have the boot menu but of course it won't boot off SD. The SD card doesn't appear to have been touched. I've now uninstalled it but still have the boot menu. Can I at least remove whatever is taking up my internal memory?

N800 with OS2008

edit->I did the suggested update but quickly came up with not enough memory.

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

So it hosed your flash install? Or the SD card would not boot? did it install bootmenu. ALSO please send me the log from application manager

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@IcelandDreams, if this script works in the same way as others, unmount /opt and go in and rm -rf /opt/* (for your 1kb problem if you can boot rootfs or mount the rootfs over ssh/telnet)

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OK, #1 DO NOT PUT A DEB ON A CARD AND TRY TO INSTALL IT WHEN IT WILL PARTITION THE CARD ITS SITTING ON.


TO FIX
open xterm
(you will need to become root)

rm -rf /device/*

if its full, its because the mount failed because the SD card was in use. So it started the tar, and filled up your flash in /device


Then put the deb on flash somewhere, like documents, then run it again.

Ouch, I just did not see that one coming :)

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

Maybe if you rotate before you start KDE...

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

Where are you placing the DEB? put it on flash NOT on the SD CARD

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

It makes sense not to put the deb on the SD but I've done similar things in the past with the understanding that the file would go away but the load happened anyway. So I'm trying it again after regaining space on the internal memory.

Thanks.

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

I had the same thing but after doing "rm -rf /device/*", rebooting, and then running the install again where it says "Updating" it completed. I can now boot off the SD.

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OK, you probably got this PB, but here's what's going on:

1. /dev/mmc0blk1 is mounted
2. fdisk mmc, makes new partition table
3. fdisk tries to make kernel re-read partition table, but fails because of A
4. mkfs tries writing an e2fs on /dev/mmc0blk2, which should be a block special file referring to the second partition on the internal mmc.
5. mkfs writes an e2fs on /dev/mmc0blk2, which, since it didn't previously exist, is created as a regular file
6. EPIC FAIL!

Solution: check before creating filesystem:

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my not so freshly flashed n800 with 8gb sd also had the prev out of mem problem. however, it did load boot loader, and made back up from flash minus
a working personal menu....

I see a reflash/reload in my future.....;-)
next time with a 2gb sd!!

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

[QUOTE=penguinbait;175792]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.

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


If things go smoothly with this, I will make some more DEB's with different layouts for different sizes.

QUOTE]

Where possible, would you make the DEB to read a configure file which allow one to set the size for 1, 2 and 3? This way, you do not have to track multiple versions of the DEB.

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

That seems a wierd way of going about it -- the hybrid of all-up deb and reading a config file.

Maybe just prompt? or indeed, detect the card size and branch accordingly?

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

UPDATED DEB to FAIL if mount fails, which will stop the out of memory problems.

You should not get that anymore!

UPDATED 13:50 EST

Let me know

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

^too late, already installed now. :)

So what do you folks do with this primarily? Use it as a backup in case of a major blowup? Use it normally so to have a lot more space for installs? Use it to try out some possibly dangerous hacks and apps?

Anyway, it is now working fine. thanks again.

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To be clear?

using new deb and fresh flash

you installed and it failed. you then reboted, and then updated the deb by installing it again. You then rebooted again and bootmenu was installed and your cloned partition was working?

Thanks,

Please guys, I need logs for failures...

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This was the single worst thing I've done to my NIT so far. :(
After an extremely long install of about 20 minutes, the unit spontaneously rebooted and I got the bootmenu (like always). I booted from flash and I got a reverted desktop (back to before I clone my OS to SD earlier this year). I opened the file manager, looked at my 4gb MMC2 card and there was only 65mb available with no files on the card. Wonderful.

I supposed that I'm going to have reflash and lose months of work that I spent fine-tuning.

The log in app-manager, shows some error from an apt-get from back when I installed the Vagalume client (which would have been many months ago).

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

What???? :eek::eek::eek:

You can boot from SD but not from flash?


Log is in application manager (MENU)

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

Sorry man, did you read the first post? Seriously I dont mean to shrug off the blame, but I said very clearly this may hose your system. It says testing.


Also you said "I got the bootmenu (like always)"

Was bootmenu already installed? Were you booted to flash when you installed it? What was on the SD card to begin with. It was supposed to wipe out the SD card, was that unclear to you?

Did it corrupt your flash install?

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I read the first post. I understood the dangers, just complaining for the sake of complaining.

Had bootmenu installed previously, does not look like anything changed there. The flash install looks ok now that I've had time to really look at it. I think instead of reflashing, I'll just reformat my MMC2 and take it from there. No biggie, I was having issues with Claws mail's data folder not showing up on MMC2 anyway. eh...

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

HMMMM, I wonder if your flash still full 100%??

Boot to SD, open xterm, become root

mkdir /flash

mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock4 /flash -o rw,rpsize=1024,rpuid=0,rpuid=30000

df
(look at the output for df, is /flash at 100% full? )

(if its full, delete some things, and boot back to flash)

rm /root/install-tools

rm -rf /flash/device/*


Also the deb was installed in flash, so opening the log when booted to SD wont get me the correct log :)

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

Ok, so I reformatted MMC2. I'm willing to give this another go around. Will try again in the next few minutes.

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

(A) Just letting you know that it installed fine, first time. I don't know if it matters, but I did already have fanoush's boot menu. It left the boot menu the way it was, with the default and timing the way I had set it before, too. Great job. Thanks. It sure was painless and easy.

(B) Penguinbait, I was going to edit "my" thread on cloning (see my signature) to suggest people head here for your debs instead. But I see some people have had problems and you consider it to be still in a "testing" state. Let us know when you feel it is beyond testing stage and I'll start re-directing users.

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Thanks, I still think your post is uesfull, this may not work immediately on the next version of OS. Its nice to have options..

What Nokia device did you succeed on, and what size SD card?

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

Thank you, too.

N800. SanDisk Extreme III 4GB.

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I give you sudo ALL=ALL in SD partition, you have to install becomeroot or the like for the flash partition.

In the (boot from SD) just open xterm and type "sudo su -"

This should make you root

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Hi,
I'd really like to try this, because I never managed to partition my SD manually. Installing the deb just doesn't work for me either.

I installed the package and this is what the log stated. Is local.sh the problem file? I´d appreciate some help.

hildon-application-manager 2.0.2
/usr/bin/dpkg-deb -f '/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb'
/usr/bin/dpkg --install '/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb'
(Reading database ... 21755 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking install-tools (from .../.documents/install-tools.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/local.sh', which is also in package local-mmc2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb
/usr/bin/dpkg-deb -f '/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb'
/usr/bin/dpkg --install '/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb'
(Reading database ... 21755 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking install-tools (from .../.documents/install-tools.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/local.sh', which is also in package local-mmc2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/install-tools.deb

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

You would need to remove KDE before installing. However the install process once complete is very simple to install KDEv2 without the deb..

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

Hey PB! Just curious... did you make any changes to KDE from the last version that I installed 358v2 for the booting from mmc users?