[yocto] Live images?

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Thu Jun 5 07:41:57 PDT 2014


On 2014-06-05 08:32, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2014 15:26:28 Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> On Thursday 05 June 2014 07:07:34 Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> Looking through the Poky/Yocto sources, there seems to be
>>> some support for Live CD/USB images.  However, I can't find
>>> any examples nor documentation for how to use this.
>>>
>>> Can anyone provide some pointers?
>>
>> You're right, we seem to be missing that in our documentation; I'm not sure
>> where the best place to document it would be though.
>>
>> FYI, you should just need to ensure "live" is in IMAGE_FSTYPES; then you
>> should get a .directdisk image that you can just dd to a USB stick.
>
> Of course I meant to say .hddimg, not .directdisk.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

What if I needed to boot from an actual CD?  I have an old
box here I'd like to try, but it doesn't boot from USB.

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