[Voyage-linux] Create an img file

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Hi Edwin and Andrew,

If you guys can patch the voyage.update or the associated scripts to 
support for image dump, I would be deeply appreciated.

- Punky

Edwin Whitelaw wrote:
> If you've loaded the customized image onto a bootable CF, you can put 
> the CF back in your reader and run:
>
> Assuming your CF is mounted as /dev/sda and you are saving the image 
> in /usr/src/
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/usr/src/<filename.img> bs=<your choice>
>
> will create the file /usr/src/<filename.img> as an image of the CF.
>
> You may want to experiment with the bs=  (block size) to get the best 
> speed though I've found the process isn't terribly fast (using USB 1.1 
> anyway :-( ).  It does allow you to have a canned image that can be 
> put on a fresh CF without much effort.  Note that the size of the 
> source CF must be <= the target CF and if you use a larger target, the 
> image will still be the size of the source, ie, if you dd a source 
> that was installed on a 256MB CF onto a 512MB flash, you'll get a 
> 256MB system installed on the larger flash.
>
> I've found the install procedure to actually work faster though it 
> does presume the ext2 filesystem is already set up on the CF (not that 
> hard to script separately or even add to the install scripts.) and 
> doesn't create the artificially smaller system when run against the 
> ever larger CFs that are available.
> If you unpack a tarball and then do the chroot customization process 
> to install/remove packages, set passwords, DNS, etc., etc. then tar it 
> back up, you have a more flexible snapshot of a given setup, IMO.
>
> HTH,
>
> Edwin
>
> andrew at purewireless.net wrote:
>> I have a need to create a .img file out of my customized voyage 
>> install. I
>> am using linux so how would I go about creating a .img file?
>>
>>
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