Testing/Reports/ARM RPi/Duplicating a RPi SD Card

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Duplicating a RPi SD Card

• This makes an exact copy of a working SD Card

Equipment used

• RPi and SD Card

Raspberry Pi "B" 512 memory

8GB class 10 Sandisk Ultra SD with XFCE and Sugar-Desktop installed (see link)

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/ARM_RPi#Test_report_rpfr-f18-rc1.img

• Laptop

"System 76" Gazelle Professional laptop

Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz × 8

Ubuntu 12.10 running gnome classic

Remove Working SD Card from a shutdown RPi and insert it in Laptop SD Slot

• Start "Disks" gnome-disks

Unmount SD (both partitions)

Select "Make Disk Image

Saved File is Rpi_8GB.img 7.9 GB

Name is optional; name it as you wish: xxxxx.img

• Unmount SD Card in Disks

Compress Rpi_8GB.img (Optional)

NOTE this is an optional step

Do it if you want to share Rpi_8GB.img with others or archive it as a backup.

• right click "Compress select Rpi_8GB.img

Rpi_8GB.img.tar.xz 1.7 GB

Extract Rpi_8GB.img.tar.xz (Optional)

• right click on compressed file "archive Manager" Extract

Insert 2nd SD Card

8GB class 10 Sandisk Ultra SD

• Start "Disks" gnome-disks

select "Restore disk image"

Select Rpi_8GB.img and restore it.

• Eject SD Card in "Disks"

remove SD card from laptop

• Insert in Rpi

Plug in RPi power supply cord and it will boot on copied SD Card.