Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 779C1E00C64; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:23:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * 1.4 RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT RBL: RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT * [198.144.209.5 listed in bb.barracudacentral.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 1.0 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to internal network by host with * dynamic-looking rDNS Received: from sendai.noir.com (m209-5.dsl.rawbw.com [198.144.209.5]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE2EE00C23 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:23:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zama.noir.com (zama.noir.com [192.168.1.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sendai.noir.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2CA40E1A0A; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:23:37 -0700 (PDT) To: Khem Raj References: <56E64947.5020606@mlbassoc.com> <56E6EE59.80907@mlbassoc.com> From: K Richard Pixley Message-ID: <6454faef-537d-3662-e2ee-eb704acdc194@noir.com> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:23:36 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/47.0a2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: Problems building live 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: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:23:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 3/14/16 10:16 , Khem Raj wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:11 AM, K Richard Pixley wrote: >> While we're on it... >> >> Can anyone explain what a "live" image is intended to be? > it can either boot from the disk or you can run the installer to > install it to another media on your device. How is that different from an ISO? I mean, isn't that what an ISO image does? >> (I haven't gotten a live image to "work", but I'm not entirely sure I know >> what "work" means for a live image.) > what issues do you see ? may that can help answer this Mostly build time issues with "live" conflicting with "vmdk" and the like. >> Or how hdddirect is intended to be different from hddimg? > hdddirect is raw disk image. I thought hddimg was a raw disk image. If hdddirect is a raw disk image, then what's hddimg? --rich