Needed Help image of bootable CF

[action23]

Hi everyone,

Actually i am not a user for Linux and so i am not familiar for Linux.

i have an pc that includes Linux open Suse 10(in bootable Compact Flash Card) and additional small software inside 4GB Transcend bootable Compact Flash card.

there is not CD/DVD ROM on PC.

i need to make an image of this bootable Compact Flash Card and the additional software also.

i will make the image to 4GB CF,too.

Could you please help me about this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Mehmet

[waterhead]

You should be able to use the Linux/Unix command dd for this:

dd (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can save the CF contents as a disk image, and then copy that image to a new CF disk. Or, if you have two CF slots, directly to the other CF disk.

You will need to know how your system labels the CF disk. With a disk in the slot, run this command

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

That is a small "L", not a number "1". Look for the CF card using the known size of it. On my system the SD card is /dev/sdb1. To copy the contents of it, the syntax is this:

dd if=device or fie to input of=device or file to output to

Then I would enter this to make an image of the disk.

sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/home/paul/sd_image.iso

You can also save it as a .img file instead of .iso. I'm not sure if one is better for this than the other. To then transfer the saved image to a new CF card, reverse the command.

sudo dd if=/home/paul/sd_image.iso of=/dev/sdb1

This will copy the image contents to the CF card, overwriting anything that is on it.

Give it a try, and practice it a bit.

[action23]

thanks for you help Paul.

i have not additional CF slot.i will use USB card reader and i will use CF slot inside yhe reader.