[Freedombox-discuss] my experience with make weekly-card

[Nick Hardiman]

Copied, with some formatting, to http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/BuildImage

I did not include any links to this page, except from http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Software. I am not convinced this is the right place. 


Nick Hardiman
nick at internetmachines.co.uk
@intmachines



On 6 Jul 2012, at 01:37, Nick M. Daly wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:28:41 +0100, Nick Hardiman <nick at internetmachines.co.uk> wrote:
>> If, like me, you want to follow Nick's instructions for building a
>> fresh image, here's the 18 step procedure I followed.
>> 
>> ...What do you think? 
> 
> Nick, thanks for putting this together, it's very detailed and went
> about as well as it could go.  Could you put this on the wiki, maybe?
> I'll add it to the README before too long.  I've fixed step 16, so it's
> done automatically now.  Also, the output you're seeing in step 18 is
> entirely correct.  That's exactly what I see, and you've identified the
> important lines.
> 
>> This won’t work. My SD card is device sdb, not sdc.
>> ...
>> sudo sh -c "sed -e 's/sdc1/sda1/g' < source/etc/fstab > /media/freedom/etc/fstab"
>> sync
>> sleep 1
>> umount /media/freedom/boot
>> umount /media/freedom
>> Build complete.
>> ...
> 
> Don't worry, that actually does work, it's running in a different
> context than where you think it is.  The fact that your plug booted
> shows it worked the right way.
> 
>> Finally an image is copied and zipped up.
>> ...
>> The end. Hooray! The SD card is ready for the DreamPlug. 
> 
> Also, with that last step: you can customize the image any way you
> want and then release it as your own weekly image, if you'd like.
> 
> Nick
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