[PLUG] Imaging CF card...

[alan at clueserver.org]

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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