Creating an installer for your Yocto image.

Creating an installer for your Yocto image.

[David Welch]

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Hi,

Currently we are dd'ing a yocto created image to a hd.  This works great
for having our production people create new machines in a factory.

I have a new requirement now for what happens if we want to re-image a
machine in the field.  Ideally I would like to be able to insert a USB
stick and have an unattended installation process completely re-image the
hard drive.

I was wondering if there was a Yocto/bitbake package which could create a
default standard linux installation application that could be run at boot
time to partition the hd and install the image.  Would you guys know if
there was a good way this could be achieved or is it a case of writing
something from scratch?

Thanks,
David

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Re: Creating an installer for your Yocto image.

[Stefano Babic]

Hi David,

On 12/03/2014 10:35, David Welch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently we are dd'ing a yocto created image to a hd.  This works great
> for having our production people create new machines in a factory.
> 
> I have a new requirement now for what happens if we want to re-image a
> machine in the field.  Ideally I would like to be able to insert a USB
> stick and have an unattended installation process completely re-image
> the hard drive.
> 
> I was wondering if there was a Yocto/bitbake package which could create
> a default standard linux installation application that could be run at
> boot time to partition the hd and install the image.  Would you guys
> know if there was a good way this could be achieved or is it a case of
> writing something from scratch?

Maybe you could take a look at my post some times ago:

	https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-November/017334.html

Scope of the project is how to deploy images in the field. Maybe you can
take a look at the doc to check if it can fullfill your requirements.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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