On 2 May 2013 16:12, Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - a separate tool (which will probably need to be run as root) is used
> to actually format/create the SD device (using, say, sfdisk for
> automation) this way the last partition can be specified as "use the
> rest of the disk"
> - this tool unpacks the requested/required {tar|rpm|deb|ipk}s onto the
> SD device (some of which can come from outside the Yocto build system,
> e.g. from using the SDK); this device already has its
> formatting/partitions ready
> - this tool could also handle setting up serial numbers, IP addresses, etc
> - this tools also sets up the bootloader (if required)Sounds great though it may take a long time to copy files to an SD card (I noticed a similar opinion at http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianInstaller). May be quicker to generate an image file with the correct size first then dd that to the card. -- Paul Barker Email: p...@paulbarker.me.uk http://www.paulbarker.me.uk _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
