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lowtec

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« on: August 05, 2005, 12:20:45 pm »
I know I can load the original rom again if I foul things up from another source. But I want to rip my original rom to CF just in case. What do I need to do?
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2005, 12:33:25 pm »
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I know I can load the original rom again if I foul things up from another source. But I want to rip my original rom to CF just in case. What do I need to do?
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dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 of=/mnt/card/something.rom
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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2005, 01:20:28 pm »
Hit p and d button and at the same time push the reset button. This gets you in the maintenance menus.  Then go to screen 4/4 (hit the left button) Go down to number 5 and do a nand backup.  It will make a copy of what is in flash and your rom to the cf card.  Once it's done hit the reset button and you're all set!  It will make a file called syst0006.dbk
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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2005, 01:24:09 am »
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Hit p and d button and at the same time push the reset button. This gets you in the maintenance menus.  Then go to screen 4/4 (hit the left button) Go down to number 5 and do a nand backup.  It will make a copy of what is in flash and your rom to the cf card.  Once it's done hit the reset button and you're all set!  It will make a file called syst0006.dbk
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Being adventurous tonight I did the above and was told it couldn't get the size of my cf card. Ok, it is a 4GB hitachi micro-drive so I shouldn't be surprised. Have a scary moment getting it to reboot, switch in a 1GB CF card and get the same result. Does the CF card need to be DOS formatted or something?

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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2005, 12:33:43 pm »
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Being adventurous tonight I did the above and was told it couldn't get the size of my cf card. Ok, it is a 4GB hitachi micro-drive so I shouldn't be surprised. Have a scary moment getting it to reboot, switch in a 1GB CF card and get the same result. Does the CF card need to be DOS formatted or something?
Tried again with a VFAT formatted CF card last night and it appeared to work fine ... guess that is the ticket.

John
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