Thread: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
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fieldside is offline fieldside
2008-07-26 , 02:52
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Originally Posted by buma View Post
quick and stupid question - is there a way to clone a cloned sd card? Was thinking that my use of an 8GB card might be a bit overkill - but of course, I've already added like a bunch of things to my cloned SD card already and didn't want to have to do it again.

So, is it possible:
1. to clone your SD card to another SD card
2. would it have to be exactly the same size to clone it or could you go to a different size SD card (say from an 8 to a 4GB card)?

and thanks for your great work for the tablet - it has made it all the more useful birthday present to myself
You can clone and also change any of the 3 partition sizes easily if you know how to use the Norton Ghost program. I have used the DOS version of Ghost and have duplicated several 2GB copies, and also have changed the partitions sizes from PB's original 128/1662/128 to 640/1200/70, so to have more FAT for storing data files.

These are the steps:

1. Put the SD card to a USB adapter and plug it into your PC;
2. Boot your PC to Ghost and ask it to creat an disk image of your SD card. This takes quite a long time as the USB transfer is very slow under DOS; and lastly,
3. Change to a new SD card (you can use any card size as long as the card size is larger than the data size) and ask Ghost to put the image created in (2) above to this SD card. At this stage, you can change the size of each partition (Fat, Boot and swap). Now, you have an exact copy of the SD card and also your desired partition size.

I have made two copies this way myself, one for both testing programs and for daily use and one for keeping. If I install and test a program and find it useful, then I will install it to the card for keeping and then make a fresh image. This saves me a lot of time and trouble in future.
Last edited by fieldside; 2008-07-26 at 02:55.
 

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