On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:55 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Patrick > O'Callaghan<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 I'm slightly surprised you can get the VM to match your hardware closely enough, but interesting nonetheless. > 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. % VBoxManage |grep convert VBoxManage convertfromraw <filename> <outputfile> VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin <outputfile> <bytes> % So no "converttoraw" here, using VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_fedora11-1.x86_64 poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
