[yocto] Creating an installer for your Yocto image.
Stefano Babic
sbabic at denx.de
Wed Mar 12 05:57:59 PDT 2014
Hi David,
On 12/03/2014 10:35, David Welch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently we are dd'ing a yocto created image to a hd. This works great
> for having our production people create new machines in a factory.
>
> I have a new requirement now for what happens if we want to re-image a
> machine in the field. Ideally I would like to be able to insert a USB
> stick and have an unattended installation process completely re-image
> the hard drive.
>
> I was wondering if there was a Yocto/bitbake package which could create
> a default standard linux installation application that could be run at
> boot time to partition the hd and install the image. Would you guys
> know if there was a good way this could be achieved or is it a case of
> writing something from scratch?
Maybe you could take a look at my post some times ago:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-November/017334.html
Scope of the project is how to deploy images in the field. Maybe you can
take a look at the doc to check if it can fullfill your requirements.
Best regards,
Stefano Babic
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