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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Introduction ------------ +------------ This layer provides an installation program based on OE platform. The installation program is anaconda from fedora, which is the installer of distribution Fedora, @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ RedHat and Centos. (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda) There are two builds required, one is target build, -another is host build. +the other is host build. The image/packages of target build is installed on the target hard disk as user requirements. @@ -43,23 +43,23 @@ Maintainers: Hongxu Jia <jiahongxujia@163.com> | <hongxu.jia@windriver.com> Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com> Contributing ------------ +------------ Contributions and patches can be sent to the Yocto Project mailing -list: yocto@yoctoproject.org" +list: yocto@yoctoproject.org When sending patches please take a look at the contribution guide available -here: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Contribution_Guidelines +here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/contributor-guide/submit-changes.html example: git send-email -1 -M --to yocto@yoctoproject.org --subject-prefix=meta-anaconda][PATCH Limitation ------------ +---------- 1) Since OE use grub-efi to generate live image, the compatible host is i.86|x86_64 (Set MACHINE = "qemux86-64|qemux86" in default build) -2) The target installer based on fedora 26, so it requires: +2) The target installer based on fedora 39, so it requires: - systemd as init manager - python3 - dnf2/rpm4 @@ -67,37 +67,40 @@ Limitation in MACHINE_FEATURES Building the target installer ------------ +----------------------------- 1. Summary The target installer is enabled by including this layer. There are two images in target installer, one is target - image which to be installed to target, another is installer image - which to do the installation. + image which to be installed to target, the other is installer + image which to do the installation. A target image requires specific components to be compatible with the installer. To install these components set - DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " anaconda-support" in local.conf + + DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " anaconda-support" + + in local.conf. For installer image, you are not supposed to change the 'DISTRO' setting in target build directory. It may work, but it's not - recommended. Instead we should recommend the user run a - oe-init-build-env and create a new build directory for the installer. - Set DISTRO = 'anaconda' in local.conf file. + recommended. Instead we should recommend user to run `source + oe-init-build-env` and create a new build directory for the installer. + Then set `DISTRO = 'anaconda'` in local.conf file. There are two kinds of installer builds: "Image Based Install" and "Package Based Install". The former is to install a prebuilt image, - the latter is to install RPM packages. + and the latter is to install RPM packages. For Image Based Install, set INSTALLER_TARGET_BUILD = '<target-build-image>' in local.conf to specify an .ext2, .ext3, or ext4 image file, then the installer will copy this image to the target. - For Package Based Install, set INSTALLER_TARGET_BUILD = + For Package Based Install, set INSTALLER_TARGET_BUILD = '<target-build-topdir>' to specify the path to target build directory - that will supply RPMs, and INSTALLER_TARGET_IMAGE = '<target-image-pn>' + which will supply RPMs, and INSTALLER_TARGET_IMAGE = '<target-image-pn>' to specify the image recipe name, then the installer will install its - RPMs to the target; + RPMs to the target. 2. Two main use cases 2.1 Installer image with ext2, ext3 or ext4 image from the target |