Post date: May 6, 2011 7:45:17 AM
Copy MeshAP Compact Flash to Another
I personally made a PC for this project, and it boots with a floppy version of Linux. I bought a couple of IDE compact flash units that plug onto my IDE cable and get power from the floppy power adapter.
Once booted I simply copy from one device to the other. Lets assume the master copy is primary flash and the target flash is the slave unit. Once booted from my linux floppy OS, I use dd command.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8192
It will prompt me when completed and tell me how many files it has copied from one to the other. You need to use the same size flash is possible or bigger for the slave.
WARNING - Using this command is dangerous and is not fool proof if done incorrect it can wipe the OS off the wrong unit.