On Wednesday 05 September 2012 22:57:22 Jack Mitchell wrote: > On 05/09/2012 22:46, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:16:44 Gary Thomas wrote: > >> Also, is it possible to just build the SD image much like I do for > >> other devices like the BeagleBoard, albeit with different contents > >> in /boot? Sloshing around 4GB images is rather painful, plus it > >> takes forever to DD it to the SD card. > > > > I must be missing something - do you want the rootfs larger or don't you? > > If it's expanded it will take up 4GB minus the boot partition size so > > you're into a large dd again... > > I think what he means (or this is what I would like to see ) is a > boot.tar.gz and a rootfs.tar.gz which can then be extracted straight > onto the partitions? Hence only a ~40mb boot write and ~50mb rootfs > write rather than a 4GB dd slog.
Ah, I see, that makes more sense. Another thing to add to the meta-raspberrypi issue tracker. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
