(usb tahrpup on dell laptop 4gRAM, no HDD)
I've made a nice tahrpup on a usb memory stick. It uses a tahrsave folder (doesn't have to be reset for size). I took the advice of the universal installer and used one ext3 partition.
I'd like to copy same system onto a fat32 stick. No folder or file is close to 4gb (at least yet) so that's not an issue.
Ted Dog gave me this nice command:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
which enabled me to pretty quickly make a good copy onto another memory stick. But even though the blank stick was fat32 originally, the command wiped out that system and replaced it with a ext3 (of the same size as the original) with remainder of the memory in an "unassigned" partition.
I'm a true amateur at this. Tried on another fat32 stick to just copy everything over manually from the original stick. That mostly worked fine, it seemed, but when the tahrsave folder was copied, it generated a report of approx 600 errors!
Any fairly simple way to port things onto fat32?
copy usb flash drive pup from ext3 stick to vfat stick?
NO
FAT is not posix (ext2/3/4 etc) compliant so its not just permissions and ownership but also symlinks that will not work...at some point it will fail.
As for porting its save file time...you could in theory crate a save file and copy the save folder contents when running pfix=ram and mounting the save.... there may be other tricks too like cp to pup_rw but thats a bit hit and miss live.
Mike
FAT is not posix (ext2/3/4 etc) compliant so its not just permissions and ownership but also symlinks that will not work...at some point it will fail.
As for porting its save file time...you could in theory crate a save file and copy the save folder contents when running pfix=ram and mounting the save.... there may be other tricks too like cp to pup_rw but thats a bit hit and miss live.
Mike
