Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 16 January 2016 12:27:15 GMT+00:00, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Neil Bothwick [16-01-16 13:23]: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:02:04 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > You dd the image on a sdcard, put that one in a reader, copy two > files > > > from /boot to /media/boot, put the sdcard

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Meino . Cramer
Neil Bothwick [16-01-16 13:23]: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:02:04 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > You dd the image on a sdcard, put that one in a reader, copy two files > > from /boot to /media/boot, put the sdcard into the OrangePI-PC, boot > > it, log in via ssh and call a script named "fs

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:02:04 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > You dd the image on a sdcard, put that one in a reader, copy two files > from /boot to /media/boot, put the sdcard into the OrangePI-PC, boot > it, log in via ssh and call a script named "fs_resize", the miniPC > reboots...and VOILA!

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Meino . Cramer
Neil Bothwick [16-01-16 12:44]: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:53:18 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > It is possible to create a dd image of the whole SD card and mount it in > > a loopback to repartition etc. > > > > Mount it then shrink your existing file system (and probably the > > partition too

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:53:18 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > It is possible to create a dd image of the whole SD card and mount it in > a loopback to repartition etc. > > Mount it then shrink your existing file system (and probably the > partition too) to less than the required size, then recreate

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Meino . Cramer
Bill Kenworthy [16-01-16 11:04]: > On 16/01/16 17:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 04:50:49 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > >> to post a firmware image of my embedded linux computer > >> to a friend I want to size it down. > >> > >> System wise I did that already (only the

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 16/01/16 17:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 04:50:49 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> to post a firmware image of my embedded linux computer >> to a friend I want to size it down. >> >> System wise I did that already (only the really necessary >> stuff of Gentoo plus some c

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 04:50:49 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > to post a firmware image of my embedded linux computer > to a friend I want to size it down. > > System wise I did that already (only the really necessary > stuff of Gentoo plus some configuration and addons related > to the embedde

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-15 Thread Meino . Cramer
J. Roeleveld [16-01-16 07:24]: > On 16 January 2016 04:50:49 CET, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >Hi, > > > >to post a firmware image of my embedded linux computer > >to a friend I want to size it down. > > > >System wise I did that already (only the really necessary > >stuff of Gentoo plus some con

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an firmware image from a too large microSDcard...?

2016-01-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 16 January 2016 04:50:49 CET, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >Hi, > >to post a firmware image of my embedded linux computer >to a friend I want to size it down. > >System wise I did that already (only the really necessary >stuff of Gentoo plus some configuration and addons related >to the embedded s