I'll try to walk you through this, step by step but it may take awhile. I'll try to check this thread everyday.
Since you are using the eMMC the easiest backup will be if you can "hot plug" a micro SD card. Get an 8GB Class 10 card. After you boot your Beaglebone open a terminal window (the root console tab in Cloud9 will work, although putty or ssh will be better) and do the command: ls /dev/mmc* you should see something like: /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk1boot0 Next plug in the SD card and repeat the ls /dev/mmc* command, you should then see something like: /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk1 /dev/mmcblk1boot1 /dev/mmcblk1p2 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk1boot0 /dev/mmcblk1p1 If these appear you should be able to use dd to clone your eMMC to the SD card. Try this and let me know what you find. Use a card larger than the eMMC so the command won't fail if your SD card is a bit smaller than the eMMC, that is why I suggest an 8GB card. Hope this helps, If your card doesn't "hot plug" post the links to what procedures you've found and I can try to help you follow the one I think should work with the least hassle. On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 3:19:24 PM UTC-6, canis wrote: > > Hi Wally > > Many thanks. I'll apologize in advance- there are terms I'm not familiar > with; I fear I'll have to take small steps > > First question, is your system running from an SD card or the eMMC? > > Running the eMMC > > If running from an SD card, just "clone" or duplicate the card using > Windows or Linux tools. If its running from the eMMC (on-board storage). > It'll require knowing some Linux commands. For a beginner, I'd suggest > downloading an image as close to what is in your eMMC as you can, write > it to an SD and then mounting the SD card using a USB to SD card adapter > (this gets you the correct partition layout) on the BBB and using rsync or > dd to clone (copy) the / (root) and /boot partitions from your eMMC to the > SD card. > > Is the image the list of files & folders visible upon opening BBB on my > laptop OR the list of folders and files within Cloud 9 OR something else? > > Thanks again, > canis > > > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
