On 2013-05-02 09:52, Paul Barker wrote:
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.
The problem with this approach is that the generated image will typically be many gigabytes in size (typical SD cards are 4GB on up). The time to copy such an image to the physical card can be very large indeed. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
