Thread: HOW TO: Simplest and Complete Cloning of OS to MMC; Dual-Booting
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2008-04-15 , 02:50
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Is it the first partition or the second partition that the OS is installed on? Is it the second partition because it seems the FAT part gets written to at this point.

"sudo gainroot
mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1 [it will pause after a string of ###, then get back to a # prompt]
shutdown -r now"

And that's what I deduced from the guide you linked me. So if I wanted at leaset 128 MB for the internal memory card that would be

"#sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0 -uM

/dev/mmcblk0p1: 0,128[+if I want more],0C
/dev/mmcblk0p2: ,,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:"
Not sure what you mean by "So if I wanted at least 128 MB for the internal memory card," but the OS is getting written into p2, into the "leftover" on the card from what you made in p1.

mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1 formats the FIRST partition in FAT. You already formatted p2 in ext2.

Yes, if you want the 128MB to be FAT, you've written it correctly. This will leave your OS and apps swimming in a very large Linux partition (unless you have a tiny card).
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Last edited by GeraldKo; 2008-04-15 at 02:55.