Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo Fire with Tobi Expansion Board *issues*

[Dave H. <dhy...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jason C. Mecham
<jas...@am...> wrote:
> I really wish Gumstix would have left in the DD images for the prebuild
> sources.
>
> It’s so much easier just doing a DD (yes even on Windows) then dealing with
> formatting an microSD, and all the partitioning being done. That being said
> I’m really surprised you ran into all the issues you did under #3.

For anybody that's interested, I created a Blank-2G image, formatted
with 2 partitions.

The first partition is 20 cylinders, which is 164,505,600 bytes,
formatted as FAT.
The second partition is 220 cylinders, which is 1,645,056,000 bytes,
formatted as EXT3.

I made the first partition a bit bigger than the standard 32 Mb so it
can be used a convenient file transfer location from a windows
machine.

This image is also a bit smaller than 2Gb, since there is some
variability in the size of the SD cards out there. The total size of
the image is 220 cylinders, which is about 1.8 Mb, which should fit on
all 2Gb or larger cards.

The image filesize is 1.7 MB.
<http://www.davehylands.com/gumstix-wiki/sd-images/Blank-2G.img.gz>

You can use dd to copy this to the sd card from linux. If somebody
knows of a dd utility for windows, I'd love to get a link.

-- 
Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/