[Voyage-linux] voyage-sdk

[Rich E Neese]

On 12/16/2011 9:18 AM, Jon Meek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Rich E Neese <r.neese at gmail.com
> <mailto:r.neese at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/15/2011 11:15 PM, Jon Meek wrote:
>>     Rich - Is there a reason that you can't install to USB drive from
>>     the tarball and then add the libraries you need? That works for
>>     me, at least when starting from a freshly untarred  directory ( I
>>     recently determined that using the same directory tree for ALIX
>>     CF cards and Generic PC USB drives caused bad MBRs to be written
>>     to the USB drive, more on that after additional research).
>>
>>     Jon
>>
>>     On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Rich E Neese <r.neese at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:r.neese at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         is there any work underway to fix the sdk install to usb drives?
>>         I can only use the voyage-sdk-0.8.0 aka voyage squeeze build
>>         because of
>>         the libs needed for my project.
>>         and not being able to get grup to cp over correctly and make
>>         the usb
>>         boot is a big issue.
>>
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>     Yes because some of the files are not in pkgs I had to build from
>     source.  and some from git src. 
>
>     and movonng all the custom configs and files would be alot of
>     work. where is the issue for the voyage-sdk would be fixed would
>     make things easier.
>
>     and making a iso I have tried and failed as non of the directions
>     are step by step to the point someone who has not done it before
>     with voyage can do it.
>
>
> I have not had any problem adding self-compiled packages, and even new
> Ethernet drivers, to my bootable USB drive. I just compile on a
> compatible system, usually an ALIX board with Voyage but it could be a
> development USB drive too, with gcc, etc installed and then put them
> on the USB master. Multiple copies are made using dd.
>
> I would like to make bootable ISO images in addition to the USB drives
> but was not successful, although it has been a couple of releases
> since I last tried.
>
ok went a new route that worked better for writing usb keys. I used the
voyage-0.8.0 and turned it into a sdk setup
and it installed fine to the key no issue and the key boots so it is
confirmed the sdk-0.8.0 needs a rework.

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