[sdiy] (ot) arduino DUEMINALOVE 328 bootloader hex file?

[dan snazelle]

On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Ove Ridé wrote:

> On 8 February 2012 01:57, dan snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> does anyone know where I can find the .hex file I would need to have the
>> arduino Dueminalove  bootloader burned onto 100 atmega 328pu chips?
>> 
>> I am going to be purchasing quite a few 328 chips and I am going to have the bootloader burned onto them
> 
> It's included with the Arduino development environment. Follow the
> download link on <http://www.arduino.cc/>, and fetch the 80 MB file
> then look in arduino-1.0/hardware/arduino/bootloaders/atmega.
> If you're going to use the exact same program on all chips, you could
> burn it with the bootloader to one chip, then read out the full flash
> contents from that chip and use that to program the other chips, so
> you only need on programming step for each chip. (At least until you
> need to upgrade, in which case you can conveniently use the bootloader
> which is now also on each chip.) Just make sure the option flags are
> preserved.
> 
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> /Ove
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interesting

how would I "Read out" the contents of the flash area?

as I am only used to the arduino IDE, and that IDE keeps so much of the details hidden, the only experience I have is either hitting UPLOAD or selecting "burn bootloader" from 
the dropdown menu


thanks