Clone SD card -

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:36:42PM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/06/15 13:34, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >Should be
> >
> >    # dd if=/place/to/save/image.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
> 
> 
> 
> Good, that works, I copied from one SD card to the hard drive on
> this computer and then copied that to a second SD card which works
> just like the original.
> 
> Now the problem is that the image I have uses Mate and I prefer
> XFCE. I groupinstalled xfce and switchdesk but although switchdesk
> reports it has made the change it still comes up with Mate which
> looks like the old gnome desk top to me, it works but I have never
> used it, first Window Maker and then xfce. So I need to do some
> surgery on the copy on the hd but don't know how to open it.
> Presently it is a file named sdimage.img.
> 
> Any help appreciated,

Are you choosing the correct desktop on the login screen?

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