Just downloaded console tools .deb (to a pc) without a hitch from the second link in the first post in the "introducing console tools" thread.
>7.7 Mb.

If you are uncertain (and have time), backup one of your mmcs and experiment with PBeasy.
It lets you do all you need to clone the OS, except that it makes just three partitions (; might be a good idea to clone maemo to one of your mmcs to avoid future space problems in that).

When you are comfortable with PBeasy, try out PB, it's not much more difficult. I used CFDISK in the menu of PB to partition and found it almost self instructing. (me, linux newbie).

After you have definitely partitioned, do a proper formating of your FAT partition(s), the FAT formating within the NIT does not seem to be sufficient. My cards went read-only or unseen before I formated them from my pc.
On this forum you can find recommendations to use :
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/c...formatter.html

D'ohboy's instructions on how to move the easy-debian-image to an ext2 partition are here :
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...6&postcount=75

You might have to change the code line under "cd /debian", I had to.
There are recommendations in the forum to use gtar instead of tar.
( I found gnutar on my tablet, after downloading easy-debian, I think.)