Hi,

On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 11:37 -0700, Maurer, Steven wrote:
> I followed the instructions and after downloading the executable
> tizen_20130729.2_ivi-release-mbr-i586-sdb.raw.bz2 from
> http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/ivi/tizen_20130729.2/images/ivi-release-mbr-i586/,

OK, just FYI, with bmaptool you could flash directly from the URL, see
examples here: 

https://source.tizen.org/documentation/articles/bmaptool-copy

>  I unpacked it onto a bootable GParted USB stick,

You do not need to unpack it anywhere, but you can, of course, in you
need the uncompressed version, but for flashing to an USB stick you do
not need to unpack.

>  dd-ed it onto the partition,

You should dd to the disk itself, not to the partition. The Tizen IVI
image contains own partition table.

Brian posted you the links where you can find instructions for both dd
and bmaptool.

But generally, just to let you understand the internals, Tizen IVI
images are raw images. They contain the partition table, partitions, and
all the FS data on the partitions. They are supposed to be copied to the
block device as is.

Of course, if your block device is larger, you'll end up with
unpartitioned space. You'll need to create more partitions or re-size
the last partition, which is the rootfs partition.

There is on-going work to make the installer which will install Tizen
IVI from USB stick to the internal disk, and use all the disk space. So
in the future.

Here is some basic info about what raw images are:

https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool/introduction

See section "raw images".

> I'm also wondering if there might be some variations within the
> NDis166 hardware that makes my box fail to accept the image.  About
> the only variation on the procedure I performed was that I downloaded
> the original .bz2 file and used windows to unpack the raw data file
> onto the SanDisk stick, but that shouldn't make any difference
> whatsoever.

No, the process is simpler than that. You just drop the image to an USB
stick as is. You may take any USB stick, you do not have to format it
prior to flashing. You just write the image to the USB stick starting
from sector number 0.

Then you can boot off the USB stick.

If you then want to make the internal SSD bootable, there are a couple
of caveats. In the future this will be easy, we are working on it, just
do not have enough resources to implement it quickly. Feel free to
contribute here :-)

> If there is anyone who knows the trials and travails of getting this
> to work, I'd be appreciative.
> 
Home you got the answers. Thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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