| Summary: | Improve user experience under Windows | ||
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| Product: | [Infrastructure] Website | Reporter: | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie> |
| Component: | web-content | Assignee: | Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | Low | CC: | Infras.watcher, infras.web.watcher, jessica.zhang, josh, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | Q1 | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Multiple | ||
| URL: | http://www.yoctoproject.org/windows-tire-kicker | ||
| Whiteboard: | 14-dec-2011: Fix is in place but not public on the website | ||
| OS type for building Yocto: | --- | Type of Regression: | --- |
| Verified: | Documentation change: | --- | |
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Description
Richard Purdie
2011-10-04 07:00:42 UTC
Yes - we need this. I am estimating 10 full "perfect" days to create this document. Right now I am not sure of what type of document it needs to be. Likely, it needs to be something quickly accessible for the Windows user such as a link on the BSP they are concerened with or the image they are trying to use. The thing needs to be bullet proof for the user. I imagine also that the same type of document will need to be "scattered" across our images and BSPs as needed where the process differs according to the BSP or image. I don't know that yet either, but it seems like a reasonable guess. My estimate of work time does not include time waiting on information. I wonder if we can use the same tools and techniques as MeeGo used to get Windows users going? https://www.meego.com/devices/netbook/installing-meego-netbook/windows-instructions Those instructions look pretty complete. i wonder what Yocto image would be best to use to do a run through that followed the MeeGo flow? Having only given a brief glance over the MeeGo instructions I expect that the tool they use will work fine with any .hddimg file but that it may need renaming to *.img Once you get to the install phase is where things will be different. The core-image-* images all include an installer script which just completely wipes the hard disk on the device. The installer is started by typing install at the boot prompt. There is a new page on the website at http://www.yoctoproject.org/windows-tire-kicker. The page documents three steps that let the Windows user get a Yocto image, write it to a USB stick so that it can be written in the Windows environment, and then points the user to information on how to boot the system from the USB stick. The solution should be universal and easy. Once the website is re-vamped it will be part of the site. |