On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:59:53AM -0400, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > What is the best way to clone an N800? As I need to be able to > roll out a bunch of them - 30 now, 20 in a couple months I'd love to get a > "Golden Image" and copy it over very quickly to new tablets. That image > would have everything - operating system, all the added apps, users, > profiles, etc. The only differences between the tablets should be the name > (where does it reside?) and the ssh and vpn keys. > Any ideas how to do it painlessly? Can I just dd the internal > memory to a flash card and dd it onto a new tablet? I doubt that. There's an old wiki page: https://wiki.maemo.org/Modifying_the_root_image The mtdram will probably not work for you (new images need more than 64 megs), but the block2mtd should work. I think the painful way would be to have a single modified root image with the same ssh key, and then do the final modifications over ssh. I don't know if the EULA of the N800 OS image allows you to redistribute modified copies of it. Talk to a lawyer. An alternative might be to build a Debian package that depends on everything you need and then does the necessary modifications in its postinst. Manually installing a single package on 30 devices shouldn't be too hard... Marius Gedminas -- "When the grammar checker identifies an error, it suggests a correction and can even makes some changes for you." -- Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 User's Guide.
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