Yes, indeed! Now I have the disk built but the riocar.org site is down, likely forever. I swore I saved the instructions for copying data from one drive to another but can't find them if I did. I know it's the dd command, but I don't remember the other details like which partitions need to be copied and if the drive with the music needs to be master before I start this process. Do you still have that knowledge or is there still a site that those FAQ's have been moved to that you know of?

Not the dd command. Instead, the filesystems should get mounted, and the contents of the /fid/ directories copied from one to the other.

One way is to connect the source and destination drives to a Linux box (or an empeg), then mount partition 4 from each of them (eg. /dev/hda4, /dev/hdb4), and copy the contents of the fids/ directory from source to destination.

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Sorry I was out of touch when you needed me most! I don't know about .upgrade files, but the hex offset for kernel flash is memory location 10000. :-)

I was also out of state on business, but thanks for your help Mark & Tony! Is there any chance that you guys could get a hold of the empeg FAQ's and host them on this site if riocar.org has been permanently decommissioned? That would be awesome since they do still occasionally come in handy.

The wayback machine works for the FAQ:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160322145524/http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index

Unfortunately I can't seem to get the disk upgrade guide to work in the wayback machine.

Crap, no it doesn't. It doesn't have an index of the sub-pages. Sigh.

Here is part of it


https://www.dropbox.com/s/wg42q8zjwhbb8ct/RioCar%20FAQ.pdf?dl=0

Is this what you're looking for?

http://blog.differentpla.net/blog/2004/03/25/partitioning-an-empegs-hard-disk-manually

I don't think so -- that link describes how to re-do much of what the builder images have already done here.

Ok, it made mention of "big disks". Unfortunately the disk upgrade guide was external to the FAQ. I have the complete FAQ, (older that Soft's one above) which has dead links to the guide.

Unzip to a special folder on your hard disk.

Double-click on "drive_faq.htm".