[yocto] Problems building live image

[K Richard Pixley]

On 3/14/16 10:16 , Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:11 AM, K Richard Pixley <rich at noir.com> wrote:
>> While we're on it...
>>
>> Can anyone explain what a "live" image is intended to be?
> it can either boot from the disk or you can run the installer to
> install it to another media on your device.
How is that different from an ISO?  I mean, isn't that what an ISO image 
does?
>> (I haven't gotten a live image to "work", but I'm not entirely sure I know
>> what "work" means for a live image.)
> what issues do you see ? may that can help answer this
Mostly build time issues with "live" conflicting with "vmdk" and the like.
>> Or how hdddirect is intended to be different from hddimg?
> hdddirect is raw disk image.
I thought hddimg was a raw disk image.  If hdddirect is a raw disk 
image, then what's hddimg?

--rich