Tarball Of Cacko 1.23 Full Anywhere?, or can I make my own? Options

[Jon_J]

I'm looking for a tarball of cacko 1.23 full, so I can unpack it to an SD card and boot it with multiboot.

If none is available, then what is the best way to tar up a fresh cacko installation for unpacking to an SD card and booting as above?

Thank you,
Jon

[cortez]

What I did was:

• Flash Cacko
• Flash bootkernel
• Run Zubuntu
• Mount cacko partition (mount /dev/mtdblock3 /media/hdd)
• Create cacko archive (cd /media/hdd; tar -czpf /cacko.tar.gz .)

[Jon_J]

Thanks for the reply. That only tarred up /home (4.3 MB)
Doesn't cacko also need the / filesystem? which is on mtdblock2
Cacko has a bunch of symlinks between / and /home

[speculatrix]

might be easier to install cacko and then copy it over to another machine using tar with a pipe and ssh thus:

cd /
tar czf - | ssh mydesktopmachine "cat > cackobackup.tgz"

[ppyo]

might be easier to install cacko and then copy it over to another machine using tar with a pipe and ssh thus:

cd /
tar czf - | ssh mydesktopmachine "cat > cackobackup.tgz"

Hmmm... How about getting it from a NAND backup? Would that be possible?

[speculatrix]

I guess if you can work out the offsets into a nand backup, you can do that.

http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/m...e-in-linux.html

[jfv]

might be easier to install cacko and then copy it over to another machine using tar with a pipe and ssh thus:

cd /
tar czf - | ssh mydesktopmachine "cat > cackobackup.tgz"

Is there something missing from this command? I get an error:
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

Edit: apparently changing to "tar czf - . |" seems to be doing something. After a while the Zaurus froze with an error
tar: ./proc/sys/pm/suspend input/output error -- Invalid argument
and a 260MB file was on the desktop machine. Did it finish correctly? Do I dare flash it?

While I'm here, I have another question. If I want to reconstruct my Sharp ROM (not Cacko) after flashing zubuntu, I'll need (in addition to the tgz backup generated by the above command, once corrected) a zImage kernel. Which one should I use? Is the Tetsu kernel OK? I am not sure where to find Sharp's original one.

Thanks

[Jon_J]

I'm trying to tar up / and save it to cackobackup.tgz on my CF card
I'm using this command and it is processing now, I'm not sure of the results, as I mistakenly used -p in the command.
I thought "-p" was for preserve permissions, I'll try again later without the "-p"
tar cpf - / | gzip - > /mnt/cf/cackobackup.tgz

Edit:
I think it was tarring up my cards, SD and CF
I need to remove them both, then use an empty CF card next time.
I stopped it before it was finished and the resulting file was 67MB

Edit2: I'll unmount my microdrive. I think tar would try to tar up the drive also.
I cannot umount the microdrive, so I'm stumped now.

CODE

umount /hdd1
umount: /hdd1: Operation not permitted

This post has been edited by Jon_J: Jan 1 2009, 06:27 PM

[ppyo]

might be easier to install cacko and then copy it over to another machine using tar with a pipe and ssh thus:

cd /
tar czf - | ssh mydesktopmachine "cat > cackobackup.tgz"

Is there something missing from this command? I get an error:
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

Edit: apparently changing to "tar czf - . |" seems to be doing something. After a while the Zaurus froze with an error
tar: ./proc/sys/pm/suspend input/output error -- Invalid argument
and a 260MB file was on the desktop machine. Did it finish correctly? Do I dare flash it?

While I'm here, I have another question. If I want to reconstruct my Sharp ROM (not Cacko) after flashing zubuntu, I'll need (in addition to the tgz backup generated by the above command, once corrected) a zImage kernel. Which one should I use? Is the Tetsu kernel OK? I am not sure where to find Sharp's original one.

Thanks

Before flashing anything, you should create a NAND backup so you can get back to the original setting with no harm done.

[ppyo]

I guess if you can work out the offsets into a nand backup, you can do that.

http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/m...e-in-linux.html

Thanks! I'll look into that. I'll post my findings.

[speculatrix]

off the top of my head, you can use (split to help readability) the exclude option to stop tar getting upset

CODE

tar czf                                \
--exclude=/media/card  --exclude=proc --exclude=/sys  --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/dev \
/                                              \
/media/card/mybackups.tgz

[speculatrix]

might be easier to install cacko and then copy it over to another machine using tar with a pipe and ssh thus:

cd /
tar czf - | ssh mydesktopmachine "cat > cackobackup.tgz"

Is there something missing from this command? I get an error:

sorry, that should have been

cd /
tar czf - . | ssh mycomputer "cat > cackbackup.tgz"