>   For the page:
>
>http://doc.astlinux.org/devdoc:documentation
>
>in the section "Creating an Image", this is fairly simple.  If 
>someone can cut, massage, and paste this into the Wiki, that would 
>be great.
>
>= = =
>
>Use "dmesg" to figure out the size of the CF when you insert it into 
>your build system.
>
>You'll need the size of the CF in megabytes.  A 4GB CF isn't 4096MB 
>long, due to overhead from housekeeping, emulation, and geometry. 
>So you'll need the exact number (or round down if you're not sure).
>
>After running toolchain/build, do:
>
>./makerunnix.sh -A -z 3998 192 1856
>
>in this case, 3998 is what my 4GB card has in usable space in MB. 
>192MB is the size of my VFAT partition.
>
>192MB is the size of the VFAT partition.  Images are slightly less 
>than 60MB, so 192 is enough room for 3 images.
>
>1856MB is the size of ASTURW partition, which includes (for me) log 
>files, voice mail, etc.  In this case, I'm using roughly half the 
>card and leaving the rest unused.
>
>The -A argument tells it to partition, format, and label the ASTURW 
>filesystem.  I'll still need to run genunion once I've booted up 
>this image.
>
>The -z argument means to compress the image (since the ASTURW 
>partition will be large but empty) to save space on my hard drive 
>(since at any given time, I might have a dozen images).
>
>When this completes, I can do:
>
>zcat astlinux-trunk-4337.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=64k
>
>(if /dev/sdc is where my system detects the CF... again, use the 
>info from dmesg to figure out where this is. Be very careful... 
>we're not hunting wabbits.)
>
>If you hadn't used the -z flag, then it would just be:
>
>dd if=astlinux-trunk-4337.img of=/dev/sdc bs=64k
>
>to burn this image onto a CF.
>
>Wait until the 'busy' light on your CF reader stops blinking.  Just 
>to be sure, do:
>
>sync
>
>and then to verify the image, do:
>
>sudo fdisk -l -u /dev/sdc
>
>to confirm it was written correctly.
>
>At this point, you may remove your CF and install it into your 
>target system, power up... boot, and run "genunion" to complete the 
>process.

This is now in the Wiki: http://doc.astlinux.org/devdoc:devdoc_create_image

Michael

http://www.mksolutions.info

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