There are two kinds of dumps in here:

1.) file system dumps done with tar (mapperX_fs_dump.tar.bz2)
2.) CF card images cloned from the original CF cards in the vehicle


The file system dumps are tar files of the main directories in the vehicle:

bin/          dev/          home/         tmp/
boot/         etc/          registry/     usr/

These can be unpacked anywhere as reference to how things looked like when the dumps where taken but care should be taken with clobbering an existing vehicle file system with an old dump becuase new files would not be overwritten and you end up with a mix of old and new stuff.





The CF images are dumps from the CF card drives in the vehicles, which can be used to flash a new card.
The original cards are:

Swissbit SFCF16GBH2BU4TO-I-QT-527-STD

The dumps have been created like this:

# dd if=/dev/sde of=mapperX_cf_card.dd
# bzip2 mapperX_cf_card.dd

To flash a new card, do this:
# bunzip2 mapperX_cf_card.dd.bz2
# dd of=/dev/sde if=mapperX_cf_card.dd