Thread: Cloning OS to SD Card: Simplified instructions
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2007-10-11 , 22:58
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#47
Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
So, I had to reverse those recommended numbers by giving mmcblk0p1 "15001 ,," and mmcblk0p2 "1,15000,6". I found myself flying by the seat of my pants here (I'm no Linux expert) but to my surprise (and relief) it worked.
Yes, the above should work - it's a bit wierd though, as your first partition is now physically located on the card after the second partition, but that shouldn't be a problem. The only minor issue is that you've specified that partition #1 is a Linux partition (it should be FAT), and partition #2 is a FAT16 (,6) partition (it should be Linux). Again this shouldn't be a problem as I'm guessing the format routines will put the correct filesystem on to the partitions - when you run nupgrade.sh 0 it will put ext2 on the second partition irrespective of what sfdisk thinks the partition type is.

I imagine that sfdisk still states that parititon #1 is Linux and partition #2 is FAT16 even though they've been formatted with the FAT and Linux (ext2) respectively.