open firmware question

[Ivan Krstić]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
> How do I do the opposite of copy-nand - copy the OS image _from_ the  
> nand into a USB key?

If you don't have OFW access or it isn't convenient to have to reboot,  
you can use my 45-second Python hack:  <http://dev.laptop.org/~krstic/dumpnand.py 
 >

# modprobe mtdchar
# python dumpnand.py < /dev/mtd0 > /your/USBKEY/nand-image.bin

In a pinch, you can pipe the output through netcat to upload it  
somewhere directly.

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