# Cloning System Image

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/1191/cloning-system-image
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2022-08-09 17:40:47 UTC by ryan.langlois1
Replies: 1 · Views: 716

## ryan.langlois1 · 2022-08-09 17:40:47 UTC

Hello, we'd like to clone our system image and copy to our other VOXL2 units. We imagine this is possible. Can you point us in the right direction?

## Reply by modaltb (ModalAI staff) · 2022-08-10 15:51:07 UTC

Hi @ryan-langlois1 ,

I don't know of a way to do this at this point that is equivalent to say a hard drive clone...

In general, we are doing this using Yocto/Bitbake to generate the original  system image, and customize it using recipes etc.

In our production line, we flash the bare minimum system image, and then load debian packages needed to get the functionality that we want.

We do this via the "Platform Release" (https://developer.modalai.com/).  There's a few scripts and a bunch of packages in there, you can see this for reference, e.g. the `offline-install.sh` is a good example:

![1c84cb2c-e2ad-4281-b5f4-cca7c2094c49-image.png](https://forum.modalai.com/assets/uploads/files/1660146627309-1c84cb2c-e2ad-4281-b5f4-cca7c2094c49-image.png)