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penguinman007 · Guest

Hi If you've set up your USB puppy install on a usb stick,
and you'd like to make a copy:

1. boot up on the usb stick first.
2. plug in the new usb stick
3 open a terminal and type

Lobster · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 02:25 Post_subject:

Very interesting (Mr Bond)
So now you have two of the devices to save the world . . .

Can we have a volunteer to put this on the wiki?
(Let us know when it is done)

schondie · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 4

I know it's an old post but if others are looking to do this, it works perfectly.

First I tried copying the contents of one USB to another - fail, as both the Kingston USBs were 2GB but had slightly different capacities. Once I used this method it worked like a charm.

Thanks for these tutorials.

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

You should be able to avoid the unequal sized drives problem by controlling the "bs=xxx" and "count=xxx" parameters.

If the target is less than the source, then make the "bs X count" total slightly smaller. Of course if the source drive is completely full, the data will be truncated.

Cheers,
s

fresnofred · Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 13

I use PUDD, part of almost all puplets. But u have to have the same size usb sticks. U can copy a smaller one (say a 4gb drive that shows in gparted as a 3.81 gb stick to a 4 gb that is, say 3.85, but not the other way around (larger to smaller). What I do is buy 2 or more of the exact same sticks and then delete what is on them and then partion and format them to win32 in
Gparted and mark the boot flag to make them bootable and then install a remastered Puppy, or just a puppy, on the first. Then boot to a live cd and use PUDD to copy sdb to sdc, or whatever shows up when u first plug in the usb with puppy on it and then the next usb with nothing on it. Works quite well. Probably could clone 3.85 to 3.81 but this is beyond me. Just go to Staples when usbs are OVERPRICED and buy 2 or 3 or 4 or ?? of the same exact kind.
PS: takes a long time to do this. just walk away and come back 30-40 mins later when it says "complete"- even with 4 gb thumb drives it is rather slow.

rcrsn51

lmart · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 90

rcrsn51

how exactly would you do that?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2011, 13:09 Post_subject:

lmart · Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 90

will try
thanks for such a quick reply!