Let us know how those work out for you, or if we left anything out of the docs.
Thanks. On 8/23/10 9:29 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Thanks Philip! > > This is exactly what I was after. > > Mark > > On 08/22/2010 05:44 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> 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. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
