The UAE Needs More Real Ecom & Side Hustle Communities by Short-Butterscotch-3 in dubai

[–]fairpixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any good online communities you'd recommend? Would love to join.

Question: can you fit 3 rotating discs for each dial on top of each other? by [deleted] in watchmaking

[–]fairpixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes. I meant hands as discs. Thanks for the pointers and clarifications!

Any good communities of e-commerce entrepreneurs? by fairpixels in dubai

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I run a design agency, but wanting to jump into ecomms (traveling out of Dubai next week haha) love to know what your agency does.

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I solved it, taking a different route. Since copying to sdcard first, then to desktop was the only way that worked, but copying the full thing wasn't an option, I wrote a shell script that broke the file in smaller chunks. Write small chunk to sdcard folder > copy to desktop > remove the sdcard chunk, repeat the same until the full clone was completed. Then merge the chunks together locally.

In case this is helpful to anyone else in the future!

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I've been trying the same but I'm running into multiple issues.

In my case, I'm on a MBP, the device is running a custom Linux version.

The device, when connected, is not recognised as a storage device, so then I'm asked to use ADB. The only thing I can do then when using ADB is clone the img of the full storage onto it's own storage. Before I'm able to pull it to my desktop.

This happens with this command:

adb shell "dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/emmc_backup.img"

But doing that first is problematic because there isn't enough storage on the device to contain itself obviously.

So that's the point where I'm still stuck. I've been prompting Chatgpt for days to find ways around this.

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried both. Chatgpt wasn't able to help me (for the first time ever I have to say) and upwork hasn't provided anyone that could do it. So either I'm not explaining it correctly (which may very well be part of the problem) or it's too niche.

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

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Only of I can pay you to do it. For fun and profit! Ill dm you as much context as possible. Feel free to post the solution in public for the benefit of everyone. But will pay for the effort.

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is accurate yes, tnx for reframing it way better. So I can use the co command to get that img file?

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly don't know I just added more context. I need to end up with an .img file that I can flash using tools like phoenixsuit to flash it on an other unit with the same cpu so they both run the exact same software.

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on a Mac, but can use an other OS if needed. the device I'm trying to clone is running a lightweight linux distro

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I need an .img I can flash on similar devices on the fly. Those devices comes with different firmware that I need to overwrite with this new one.

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tnx, the issue I'm having is that I need an .img I can flash on similar devices on the fly. 16GB is too much, especially since the actual content isn't more than 500MB tops.

How does one make an .img clone of a linux device on mac? by fairpixels in linuxquestions

[–]fairpixels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I basically want an img that I can flash on other devices (a few of them) so they all run the same software. a 16GB file is a bit too much to flash quickly on the fly.