On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 04/18/2013 05:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> I am kind of up and running on my pogo with the f18 img. >> >> So I am trying to set things up a bit like I like then and first try >> running 'yum update'. 172 package need updating, but only117Mb! >> >> Quite a list of things. Is this correct? Should I really do this? >> >> Well I guess I really need to stay current, it seems that this image is >> suppose to be current, but this is a lot to update... >> >> No new kernel at least. > > > I bit the bullet and did the update. Ouch that took some time, alright. > > I am thinking about making a backup drive. I have an identical drive I > could use. Would I pull the drive out of the pogo (turned off of course), > put them both into a box and use dd to make an exact copy? Would that work, > and what would the copy look like? What if there are differences in bad > 'sectors' between the two usb drives? A dd for the source drive is non destructive so I suggest try it and see. The hdd deals with bad sectors and dd doesn't go quite that level, it reads data off one drive and writes it to another and leaves the HW to deal with HW errors.... this is exactly the same as x86 and some what off topic for this list. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
