[PLUG] Imaging CF card...

[michael at robinson-west.com]

That's the secret sauce!  /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb.  Thank you ;-)

August 8, 2019 11:19 AM, alan at clueserver.org wrote:

> On your dd command try using /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb.
> 
> dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=image.img
> 
> mount -o loop image.img /mnt
> 
>> [mrobinson at turion-roch-robinson-west-com ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>> 
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 1018 MB, 1018773504 bytes, 1989792 sectors
>> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disk label type: dos
>> Disk identifier: 0x001c2022
>> 
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sdb1 * 63 1989791 994864+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>> [mrobinson at turion-roch-robinson-west-com ~]$
>> 
>> The partition starts at 63, how do I use losetup?
>> 
>> August 8, 2019 10:42 AM, "Ken Stephens" <kennethgstephens at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Micheal,
>>> 
>>> You using losetup to mount the image to a /dev/loop0?
>>> 
>>> Ken
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:37 AM <michael at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The server uses a CF card in place of a hard disk. The server oddly
>> enough
>> is Windows 98 SE based. I have a CentOS 7 box with a USB CF card
>> reader.
>> I am trying to image the CF card and write the image to a second CF
>> card.
>> Kind of a, make a backup to experiment with scenario and use the
>> backup.
>> 
>> This my CentOS 7 box doesn't work:
>> 
>> $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=win98seQSP2predrivers.img bs=1M count=1000
>> status=progress
>> 
>> The file created cannot be mounted. If you write it to another CF card,
>> you get garbage.
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