Building an image of a real OLPC

Michael Stone michael at laptop.org
Wed Apr 16 21:24:43 EDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:20:12PM -0700, Steve Lewis wrote:
> Is there any way do build a disk image of a physical OLPC for backup and 
> development  under an emulator

One method is to mount the NAND over sshfs and to copy the files you
want. Another method is to save a NAND image to a USB key or SD card
with the 'save-nand' OFW word, then to mount this image. The
instructions at 

  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mounting_jffs2_images

might achieve this or they might not - I've never tried it.

Michael



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