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Hi
I am new to Linux, I am installing it from a .dd file on to a CF card, after extracting it to the CF card and try to run it, I get this message:
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
/system_partition/rootfs.iso: no such file or directory
mount: mount point /new_root/mnt does not exist
mount: mount point /new_root/proc does not exist
run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root : error 0
Can somebody help me understand this or how I can fix this?
Any information will be helpful
Thank you in advance
Last edited by cmj1974; 04-20-2011 at 02:34 PM.
Reason: typo
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I could be talking absolute cr*p here but doesn't DD only work with disks with similar geometry and size? I'm not sitting at my Linux system and "man" doesn't appear to work on XP. What type/size is your source device and what size is your CF?
DD gives you an image copy, doesn't it, so it should be identicle to the original, therefore to boot it it needs to be discovered by the system in the same place. Huh? Wha...? Like replacing the system disk with one you've dd'd the original onto. If the copy is of sda, the new bootable disk must be sda. (Those wishing to correct me, please form an orderly queue... )
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It should be no problem to dd an image to a disk that is as large or larger as the original.
@TobiSGD Does the larger disk then have two partitions on it, The dd'd one plus the remaining bit of the disk or do you limit the disk size to that of the original?
@TobiSGD Does the larger disk then have two partitions on it, The dd'd one plus the remaining bit of the disk or do you limit the disk size to that of the original?
Play Bonny!
The rest of the disk will be simply unpartitioned space, if you want to use it you have to create a partition manually.
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