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 "Create 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

rpfr-f18-rc1-a-sd.img.zip 2.3 GB

Uploading now; available later today:--Satellit 14:12, 18 March 2013 (EDT)

Prebuilt 8 GB SD Card img file with sugar-emulator 0.98.x and xfce

This file can be Downloaded Here: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/rpfr-f18-rc1-a-sd.img.zip

user=sugar password=sugaruser

Note do not use the rpfr-f18-rc1-a-sd.img with dd; it will fail to boot.

Extract rpfr-f18-rc1-a-sd.img.zip

right click on compressed file "archive Manager" Extract

Insert 2nd SD Card in Laptop SD Slot

8GB class 10 Sandisk Ultra SD

16GB class 10 Lexar Platinum II SD

used in these examples

Start "Disks" gnome-disks

select "Restore disk image"

Select rpfr-f18-rc1-a-sd.img.zip and restore it.

Eject SD Card in "Disks"
Note do not use the rpfr-f18-rc1-a-sd.img with dd it will fail to work.

Insert the duplicated SD in the Rpi

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

rpfr-f18-rc1-a-sd.img file created with disk utility from working 8 GB SD card

and then restored with disk utility to a 16 GB SD Card and booted on RPi 512 "b"