Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/08/2015 03:54 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:58:09PM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 08/06/15 14:50, Fred Smith wrote: Are you choosing the correct desktop on the login screen? . It appears to be an ersatz login screen, there's no option for selec

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:58:09PM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > > On 08/06/15 14:50, Fred Smith wrote: > >Are you choosing the correct desktop on the login screen? > . > > It appears to be an ersatz login screen, there's no option for > selecting anything but the user. >

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 08/06/15 14:50, Fred Smith wrote: Are you choosing the correct desktop on the login screen? . It appears to be an ersatz login screen, there's no option for selecting anything but the user. It is Fedora 21 ARM but it boots from something called "berryboot." The only thing I've found so

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:36:42PM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > > On 08/06/15 13:34, Rick Stevens wrote: > >Should be > > > ># dd if=/place/to/save/image.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M > > > > Good, that works, I copied from one SD card to the hard drive on > this computer a

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 08/06/15 13:34, Rick Stevens wrote: Should be # dd if=/place/to/save/image.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M Good, that works, I copied from one SD card to the hard drive on this computer and then copied that to a second SD card which works just like the original. Now the problem is that th

Re: SV: Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 08/06/15 13:43, birger wrote: Remember that you cannot trust the size of sd cards. If you need to make a backup of a card and ensure the image will fit on a card of the same claimed size you should shrink the last partition on the device a bit before backing up. Otherwise you can end up

SV: Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread birger
Remember that you cannot trust the size of sd cards. If you need to make a backup of a card and ensure the image will fit on a card of the same claimed size you should shrink the last partition on the device a bit before backing up. Otherwise you can end up with a damaged file system. Sendt fra

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/08/2015 10:33 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 08/06/15 13:06, Rick Stevens wrote: BTW, this should be virtually identical to the way you created the bootable SD card in the beginning, not so? :-) . That's pretty much what I did but it only copied the contents of the fir

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/08/2015 10:06 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 06/08/2015 09:59 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Can someone tell me the proper command to clone an SD card? I am working with the RPI 2B and I would like to store a backup on my hard drive and be able to write it back to another SD ca

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 08/06/15 13:06, Rick Stevens wrote: BTW, this should be virtually identical to the way you created the bootable SD card in the beginning, not so? :-) . That's pretty much what I did but it only copied the contents of the first partition? IT started the boot screen and protested about th

Re: Clone SD card -

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/08/2015 09:59 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Can someone tell me the proper command to clone an SD card? I am working with the RPI 2B and I would like to store a backup on my hard drive and be able to write it back to another SD card. I may not be asking Google the right thin