[Voyage-linux] Duplicating CF

[Robert Rawlins]

Good morning guys,

Well, as suspected I've tried duplicating the cards using DD and I'm having
the aforementioned issues with the networking :-( I have also tried moving a
hand built card from one board to another and get this exact same issue,
something must be tying the configuration to the hardware?

When I place the duplicated card into the new system and boot with the board
connected to the network then everything is fine, however, if I then boot
the system without a network connection, then I am never again able to get
it to boot _with_ a network connection, the system will boot but will not
lease an IP address or anything like that.

When watching the boot through a serial connection is displays the following
error when attempting to start networking:

Setting up networking.../etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown: line 85:
/etc/network/run/ifstate: Input/output error
* Failure initializing /etc/network/run/ifstate
 failed!
Configuring network interfaces...ifup: failed to open statefile
/etc/network/run/ifstate: Input/output error
failed.

Any ideas what might be causing this? This is the same issue I've had in the
past and I've never been able to solve it.

Thanks,

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Edwin Whitelaw [mailto:Edwin.Whitelaw at nrvunwired.net] 
Sent: 27 March 2008 01:41
To: Robert Rawlins
Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Duplicating CF

I do use dd also but have found that doing the chroot customization of 
the source files (the extracted directory from the tar ball) and then 
adding/removing packages, changing config files, etc. works well because 
the standard voyage.update script then loads all my preferences on each 
new CF. If your CF cards are substantially different from each other 
system by system, I'd use the dd method.

Edwin

Robert Rawlins wrote:
>
> Hello Guys,
>
> At the moment with all the packages I install and changes I make to 
> the configuration of my systems the build time is quite lengthily from 
> start to finish.
>
> Is there any efficient and simple way to duplicate compact flash 
> cards? We're not talking massive numbers so I want to avoid doing it 
> professionally, just something I can do here with my card readers 
> would be good. I want to be able to create one finished card and then 
> make multiple versions of the same thing.
>
> I have done this a long while back but found that we has problems with 
> networking when placing cards in different boards, it seemed to get 
> confused. I forget which method I used.
>
> I'm using grub boot loader if that makes any difference.
>
> I look forward to getting your suggestions guys,
>
> Robert
>
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