On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Patrick
O'Callaghan<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 20:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >/dev/sdb is not a directory. Unless your setup is *very* nonstandard,
> >it's a device, in fact a disk drive. In the worst case the app might
> >want to seek on it, but there's no reason it shouldn't be able to do
> >that.
>
> Another item that has blown on by is that /dev/sdb is the whole
> device. One
> must have at least one mountable partition setup on the device, and
> the
> filesystem suitably initialized and mounted before the file can be
> written.
> There are some exceptions to that rule, generally involving either
> an .iso
> image, or 'dd' which can make an identical image on any writable
> device at
> least big enough to hold the image.
I was assuming the latter, given that the OP's version uses dd. However
it's starting to look like he may not be entirely sure of what he's
doing.
What I am doing is: installing an os (first fedora but gave up because
of bugs then cent) in Virtualbox tweeking cpu settings. Getting it
configured to run headless + amd geode processor + other things. then
once it is ready I run
VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw
.VirtualBox/HardDisks/cent.vdi cent.raw
which converts the Vbox image to a raw image readable by dd. Then w/
dd i write it to the cf card. put the cf card in my embedded appliance
and see if it works. I have been tweaking and reinstalling for the
last day or two. I got cent working today on this board.
http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm
With a 4G image it took about 45 min to convert to raw then write to
cf card. Because I kept redoing it I was looking to shorten that
conversion time.
on current ubuntu if I just type VBoxManager i am given a list of
option one of which is converttoraw.
thx for all your help but it looks like I am over the reinstalling
writing to cf card hump. Now to make it a wireless access point.
-bazooka