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====Duplication of USB Sticks====
====Duplication of USB Sticks====
'''CAUTION'''
 
*VERY DANGEROUS IF NOT ENTERED CORRECTLY
'''Caution if you purchase Sandisk cruzer micro 4 GB USB you have to use Windows machine to to start the U3 program and delete the hidden U3 directory, this will make the USB a full 4GB otherwise it will be too small to use dd to copy .img file'''
 
'''CAUTION VERY DANGEROUS IF NOT ENTERED CORRECTLY'''
 
*Enter Terminal
*Enter Terminal
  su -
  su -
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*Example of sucessful clone session:
*Example of sucessful clone session:
=====Make Image:=====
=====Make Image from USB:=====
*8GB Toshiba USB
  root@xxxxx:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=/dev/sda* of=USB8.img
  root@xxxxx:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=/dev/sda* of=USB8.img
  15687680+0 records in
  15687680+0 records in
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=====use image to write USB Clone:=====
=====use image to write USB Clone:=====
  root@xxxxx:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB8.img of=/dev/sda*
*4GB cruzer with U3 removed
  15687680+0 records in
  root@xxxx:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB4C2.img of=/dev/sdg bs=4k
  15687680+0 records out
  986623+1 records in
  8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2461.4 s, 3.3 MB/s
  986623+1 records out
  4041211392 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 595.509 s, 6.8 MB/s


== Put SoaS as a VMware appliance onto a VMware Player stick ==
== Put SoaS as a VMware appliance onto a VMware Player stick ==