Introduction
- This article provides instructions needed to install the Yocto Linux image on external storage using a Linux Host workstation.
- The image provides full boot system including U-Boot, Linux kernel, device driver modules and root file system.
Preparation steps
- Obtain a Linux PC workstation.
- Obtain an external storage and, if needed, a Card reader. Any commercially available external storage of 4GB (or larger) may be used for the installation.
- Download the Yocto Linux archive from CompuLab website.
- Unzip the package to a directory on the host workstation. From now we assume the device name is pakage_dir.
- The Yocto Linux image file, mentioned below, can be found in the images subdirectory.
- Plug the external storage to the host machine. From now we assume the device name of the external storage on your Linux PC is /dev/sdX.
Installation
- Flash the image file to the external storage:
zstd -dc *.wic.zst | sudo dd bs=1M status=progress of=/dev/sdX
Run Yocto Linux image
- Plug the external storage to the target
- Hard reset the system to boot from external storage
