From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.10]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EE3E00792 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 05:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fkYB24k0tz3hjNY; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:58:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fkYB24T4dzbbh4; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:58:02 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nW2uZwWgKndm; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:58:00 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: FAx5HfBJOFy5vecXoyL0H1Clqm2sbx7P1Mgt9F/2nqA= Received: from [192.168.2.247] (88-149-182-160.v4.ngi.it [88.149.182.160]) by smtp-auth.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:58:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <532059D7.30308@denx.de> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:57:59 +0100 From: Stefano Babic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Welch , yocto@yoctoproject.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Subject: Re: Creating an installer for your Yocto image. X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:58:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sbabic@denx.de =====================================================================