Thanks Milhouse, both for the reply and your simplified instructions for this process. And of course kudos to Fanoush and everyone else too

My external card is formatted as ext3 also. I finally got around the no automount issue by creating an init.d script that mounts it to /media/mmc1 after all other boot scripts are run...no matter what I tried, mounting it from fstab failed:

fstab: /dev/mmcblk1p1 /media/mmc1 ext3 defaults 0 0 will allow me to manually mount the card (as root), but it does not mount automatically... fstab: /dev/mmcblk1p1 /media/mmc1 ext3 rw,auto,exec,user 0 0 fails altogether. No matter I guess, the init.d script works

I hope the cloning procedure works w/o much changing when chinook becomes available!

Jeff