does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  never used "wic" before, and i'm wondering if it has the ability to
not create dd-able images so much as partition and format physical
target devices. surely, the underlying logic would be the same, i just
want to work with the target hard drive and bypass creating the image
itself.

rday

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Re: does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

[Ed Bartosh]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   never used "wic" before, and i'm wondering if it has the ability to
> not create dd-able images so much as partition and format physical
> target devices. surely, the underlying logic would be the same, i just
> want to work with the target hard drive and bypass creating the image
> itself.
> 

The only purpose of wic is to create images. I'm afraid it doesn't have
the functionality you're looking for.

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Ed

Re: does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Ed Bartosh wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   never used "wic" before, and i'm wondering if it has the ability
> > to not create dd-able images so much as partition and format
> > physical target devices. surely, the underlying logic would be the
> > same, i just want to work with the target hard drive and bypass
> > creating the image itself.
>
> The only purpose of wic is to create images. I'm afraid it doesn't
> have the functionality you're looking for.

  i thought that was the case, just wanted to make sure. and perhaps
i'm just missing it, but where is the canonical documentation for wic,
it might still be useful for what i'm doing.

rday

p.s. i'm assuming you can use 'wic' only in the context of an OE
build, yes? at least it appears that way.

Re: does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

[Ed Bartosh]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 06:19:13AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > >   never used "wic" before, and i'm wondering if it has the ability
> > > to not create dd-able images so much as partition and format
> > > physical target devices. surely, the underlying logic would be the
> > > same, i just want to work with the target hard drive and bypass
> > > creating the image itself.
> >
> > The only purpose of wic is to create images. I'm afraid it doesn't
> > have the functionality you're looking for.
> 
>   i thought that was the case, just wanted to make sure. and perhaps
> i'm just missing it, but where is the canonical documentation for wic,
> it might still be useful for what i'm doing.
The documentation is here:
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.1/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#creating-partitioned-images

you can get also gert some info from wic help overview|plugins|kickstart output.

> rday
> 
> p.s. i'm assuming you can use 'wic' only in the context of an OE
> build, yes? at least it appears that way.
Yes, wic is tightly coupled with OE.

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Ed