Creating an Image for a Target Device

After you have created a target file system, you can create an image of that file system and use that image to boot your mobile device.

Overview

Steps to create an image for your device.

1. Install and run Image Creator.
2. Create a project and target for your platform.
3. (Optional) Add applications or customize the target file system.
4. Create an image of the target.
5. Boot the image on your netbook or MID.

Create an Image (Live or Installable)

You can create images of your targets and write them to a USB drive. There are two kinds of images that Moblin Image Creator creates: live and installable. Live images allow you to boot directly from the USB drive, without modifying the mobile device's hard drive. An installable image will erase the contents of the mobile device's hard drive and replace it with the contents of the image. Tooltips over the buttons in Image Creator explain more about each option.

1. Select a project in the Platform Projects section.
2. Select a target in the Targets section.
3. Select the appropriate button to create the image.

Write an Image to the USB drive (or CD-RW)

Once you have created an image, you can place this image on the USB pen drive. Insert the USB drive into your workstation and select the Write USB Image button. Image Creator will detect the USB drive that is inserted and ask you to confirm before proceeding.

Note: Any image type you place on the USB drive could completely erase the contents of the USB drive (depending on the size of the image). Image Creator uses the following command internally (you don't need to run this manually):