Heya William, Thats kind of odd, although not totally unexpected I think. Anyway I was thinking, that you could write a script in Linux to do all this for you. Then if I understand you correctly, this script would / could create the partitions, format them correctly, then copy all the boot file to the right locations, and lastly untar a tar'd archive for the rootfs onto the second partition.
BTW, I'm not coming down on Windows here, I just think Windows is the wrong tool to use for this job. I use Windows on my own desktops as well . . . On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Sid Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if this is the same problem. > > I have created disk images to burn on to previously used SD cards of the > same size only to find it runs out of space near the end. > > Using dd fails to reclaim all the space. > > Under Windows, formatting the card using SDFormatter clears it up and the > image fits. > Regards > Sid. > > > On 29/07/14 02:28, William Pretty Security wrote: > > Hello all; > > > > I got unexpected results when I used Win32DiskImager to create an image of > a uSD card I had just prepared. > > It seems that no two 8GB uSD cards have EXACTLY the same number of bytes, > do if you make a back up image of a > > uSD card that is just slightly bigger than another 8GB card (even from the > same manufacturer) then you can’t copy it to the smaller card. > > > > To get around this problem, I used fdisk to create an installation that > was about 6GB in size. > > When fdisk asked for the last sector I gave it a size of “+6000GB” instead > of accepting the default. > > > > I thought that by doing this I would end up with a ~6GB image from > Win32DiskImager. > > Instead, I got an 8GB image. (The approximate size of the uSD card I used.) > > > > Am I doing something wrong here, or should I try and using Linux “DD” > instead ?? > > I have never used “DD” before. > > > > Thanks again; > > > > Bill > > > > "No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he > could do only a little." > > "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do > nothing" Edmond Burke *(1729 - 1797)* > > > http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot > Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support > Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach > Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
