[android-developers] Re: upgrade emulator firmware

2008-12-21 Thread David Turner
you can't have a persistent+writable system image at the moment. the emulator currently creates a temporary file, copies all of system.img, then uses this for the /system partition when running. When it exits, the temp file is destroyed. this will change in a later release of the SDK. For now, you

[android-developers] Re: upgrade emulator firmware

2008-12-21 Thread Bill Napier
The questions your asking would probably be better asked on android-platform, where they discuss these kinds of things. But the reason you can't mount it is probably that your system doesn't have the yaffs2 kernel module loaded. b On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:17 AM, fry wrote: > > I think I can t

[android-developers] Re: upgrade emulator firmware

2008-12-21 Thread fry
I think I can try to modify tools/lib/images/system.img file to achieve this - the simple way I see is to mount it on my local system in write mode, put modified files to it, unmount and boot emulator with modified image. Will this way work at least in theory? On practice, I even can't mount it: