From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:59:18 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 3/5] manual: more warnings to not use output/target In-Reply-To: <1354053560-30352-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> References: <1354053560-30352-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <1354053560-30352-3-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Acked-by: Samuel Martin --- docs/manual/using.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/using.txt b/docs/manual/using.txt index 6e144d0..857aa33 100644 --- a/docs/manual/using.txt +++ b/docs/manual/using.txt @@ -84,11 +84,12 @@ This directory contains several subdirectories: libraries. * +target/+ which contains 'almost' the complete root filesystem for the target: everything needed is present except the device files in +/dev/+ (Buildroot can't create them because Buildroot doesn't run - as root and doesn't want to run as root). Therefore, this directory + as root and doesn't want to run as root). Also, it doesn't have the correct + permissions (e.g. setuid for the busybox binary). Therefore, this directory *should not be used on your target*. Instead, you should use one of the images built in the +images/+ directory. If you need an extracted image of the root filesystem for booting over NFS, then use the tarball image generated in +images/+ and extract it as root. Compared to +staging/+, +target/+ contains only the files and -- 1.7.10.4