From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-embedded+bounces-3332-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1NeeuF-0001eV-QW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:28:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 709A0E155E for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237F8E110B for <gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9577BCD9 for <gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:26:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:26:18 -0500 From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org <gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-embedded] disk image question Message-ID: <20100208192618.671473e0@osage.osagesoftware.com> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-embedded+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-embedded+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-embedded+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-embedded.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ab646d25-11ea-44c6-b691-db8b339ac4f5 X-Archives-Hash: dfc5bfe8115f0d2201d065d3502e95e9 Hello, I'm working with PC/104 cards with vortex86 and vortex86sx SOCs. So far the project has been using large 1GB DOM (disk-on-modules), but it's now time to prepare for installation to 32MB and 128MB DOMs. I've not done this kind of thing before, so have invented a scheme. Hopefully it makes sense, but I thought I'd ask those of you with more experience... My current plan is to create 32MB and 128MB images (using a USB flash drive) and put them on a bootable USB drive which will allow the installlation procedure to use dd to program the embedded DOMs. I'm planning on partitioning the DOM as 1/8 DOS (formatted msdos) and 7/8 linux (formatted ext2), populating the partitions from my workstation, using dd to preserve the images, then putting the two images on the install flash drive. Does this make sense? Is there a better way to create the 2 differently sized install images and package them for installation? Thanks! David