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Add binary kernal image
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radolin committed May 6, 2012
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Step by step instructions to building kernel/rootfs images and writing to SD card:

If you're not interested in rebuilding everything from source, but instead just want
to test the board you can use the images supplied in the binary directory of this
repository and skip directly to the "Partition the SD card" section.


* Make sure your distro has the needed packages isntalled for building OE. Helpful
package lists and copy/paste apt-get install commands can be found at:
http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OEandYourDistro
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~/olinuxino/oe-core/build$ bitbake core-image-minimal

This will now fetch all the sources from the internet and build a cross toolchain, linux kernel
and root filesystem for your board. This can take may hours depending on the speed of your PC
and root filesystem for your board. This can take many hours depending on the speed of your PC
and internet connection and use 15-20G of disk space, so make sure you have enough free.

If all goes well and the build is finished without errors you should find the results in the
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