Re: Writing to Micro SD Card with Generic Card Reader

I'e been using this in Windows 8
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Seems to work well so far.


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Gold Dragon Inc.
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I tried to use the program in the forum, but I don't think it is compatible
> with the windows 8 i am using. So, I used the linux zcat command Lee has
> told me and it's still not working.
>
> The zcat command has made it to install the image to the memory card, but
> cannot run the m0n0wall when hooked to the firewall pc. Any other clues?
>
> Thank you
> Rendra
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Grayson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:43 AM
> To: Gold Dragon Inc.; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Writing to Micro SD Card with Generic Card Reader
>
> I was able to write the latest 1.8.1b546 image to a 2.0GB microSD card
> mounted in a card writer that plugs into a USB port on my Windows 7 PC.
>
> I used the program that can be found here:
>
> http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,5813.0.html
>
> You must run all programs like this as Administrator.
>
> Give it a try and see if it works for you.
>
>
>
>
> On 11/9/2013 10:24 PM, Gold Dragon Inc. wrote:
> > Dear Fred
> >
> > Yes i started with -u on the pysdiskwrite. I even tried using HP USB
> > Disk Storage Formatter and it managed to write the first 8KB, then
> > error again like the first message. One thing I realize is that with
> > USB Flash Drive, I can partition it with windows, but with the MicroSD
> > card, I cannot partition it, only format it. Is this the cause? Maybe
> > when trying to rewrite the partition somehow it is not allowed.
> >
> > Is there other tools to apply m0n0wall to microSD card?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Rendra
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Grayson [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 8:34 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Writing to Micro SD Card with Generic Card
> > Reader
> >
> > It looks like you are using physdiskwrite to write the image.
> >
> > Did you start physdiskwrite with the -u commandline option that is
> > required to write to target media that is 2GB or larger?
> >
> > The initial format of the target media does not matter.
> >
> > On 11/9/2013 7:22 AM, Gold Dragon Inc. wrote:
> >> Hi All
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I am trying to write the m0n0wall 1.34 into a micro sd card (2GB)
> >> using a generic card reader. But for some reason I always got this
> >> error
> > message:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive1:
> >>
> >>    Windows:       cyl: 121601
> >>
> >>                   tpc: 255
> >>
> >>                   spt: 63
> >>
> >>    C/H/S:         16383/16/63
> >>
> >>    Model:         ST31000524AS
> >>
> >>    Serial number:             9VPDW7KW
> >>
> >>    Firmware rev.: JC4B
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive2:
> >>
> >>    Windows:       cyl: 125
> >>
> >>                   tpc: 255
> >>
> >>                   spt: 63
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive3:
> >>
> >>    Windows:       cyl: 3
> >>
> >>                   tpc: 255
> >>
> >>                   spt: 63
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Which disk do you want to write? (0..3) 2
> >>
> >> About to overwrite the contents of disk 2 with new data. Proceed?
> >> (y/n) y
> >>
> >> Found signed compressed image file
> >>
> >> Write error after 0 bytes (8192).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Can anyone help me? The SD Card was preformated with Fat. I tried
> >> FAT32, still the same.
> >>
> >> I try it with 32MB of USB Flash Disk, it worked.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there something I need to do? Please help.
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> >> Rendra
> >>
> >>
> >
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