From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: ml@communistcode.co.uk
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: raspberrypi image questions
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:27:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6099464.5q5kWXbBUM@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5047CAC2.2020405@communistcode.co.uk>
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 22:57:22 Jack Mitchell wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 22:46, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:16:44 Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> Also, is it possible to just build the SD image much like I do for
> >> other devices like the BeagleBoard, albeit with different contents
> >> in /boot? Sloshing around 4GB images is rather painful, plus it
> >> takes forever to DD it to the SD card.
> >
> > I must be missing something - do you want the rootfs larger or don't you?
> > If it's expanded it will take up 4GB minus the boot partition size so
> > you're into a large dd again...
>
> I think what he means (or this is what I would like to see ) is a
> boot.tar.gz and a rootfs.tar.gz which can then be extracted straight
> onto the partitions? Hence only a ~40mb boot write and ~50mb rootfs
> write rather than a 4GB dd slog.
Ah, I see, that makes more sense. Another thing to add to the meta-raspberrypi
issue tracker.
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 18:16 raspberrypi image questions Gary Thomas
2012-09-05 21:46 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-09-05 21:56 ` Jack Mitchell
2012-09-06 5:27 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-09-05 21:57 ` Jack Mitchell
2012-09-05 22:27 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
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