mic-image-writer(1) [debian man page]

MIC-IMAGE-WRITER(1)					      General Commands Manual					       MIC-IMAGE-WRITER(1)

NAME

       mic-image-writer - Write a live image to a USB stick

SYNOPSIS

       mic-image-writer [options] [image file]

DESCRIPTION

       mic-image-writer is a simple yet very helpful tool, it can help you write a live image to a USB stick, it is safer than dd and has a good
       progress indicator, it has two work modes, console and GUI, you can explicitly use -c | --console and -g | --gui to force it to enter
       console or gui mode, by default, it will smartly decide this automatically.

       It just writes an image to the whole USB stick, so the original data on your USB stick will be overwritten, mic-image-manager has a more
       powerful GUI tool for this case, it can write a live image to a specified partition, the old data on that partition will keep intact.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help     show this help message

       -c, --console  Run in console mode

       -g, --gui      Run in GUI mode

EXAMPLES

       Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:

       mic-image-writer your-2.1-final.img

EXIT STATUS

       mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						       MIC-IMAGE-WRITER(1)

MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)					      General Commands Manual					    MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)

NAME

       mic-image-convertor - Convert a virtual machine image to a live image

SYNOPSIS

       mic-image-convertor [options]

DESCRIPTION

       mic-image-convertor can convert a virtual machine image to a live image, this is specially for developers, they will use VMWare player or
       KVM or VirtualBox to run this image and do some changes in place, then they convert this changed image to a live image to run in a real
       device.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for mic-image-convertor, you can use it if you prefer to use GUI instead of command line.

General OPTIONS
       --version				  show version number and exit

       -h, --help				  show this help message and exit

       -F SRCFORMAT, --source-format=SRCFORMAT	  Source image format, possible values are: raw, vmdk or vdi (default: automatically detect image
       type).

       -I SRCIMG, --source-image=SRCIMG 	  Source image which was created by mic-image-creator or an image file system.

       -T DSTFORMAT, --target-format=DSTFORMAT	  Target image format, possible values are: livecd and liveusb

       -t TMPDIR, --tmpdir=TMPDIR		  Temporary directory to use (default: /var/tmp)

       -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR		  Output directory to use (default: current work dir)

       -S SUFFIX, --suffix=SUFFIX		  Image name suffix (default: date stamp)

OPTIONS For Live USB
       -i, --interactive			  Directly write into a USB disk.

       --fstype=FSTYPE				  File system type for live USB image, ext3 or vfat, the default is vfat.

       --overlay-size-mb=OVERLAYSIZEMB		  Overlay size in MB as unit, it means how size changes you can save in your live USB disk.

Debug OPTIONS
       -d, --debug	   Output debugging information

       -v, --verbose	   Output verbose progress information

       --logfile=FILE	   Save debug information to FILE

EXAMPLES

       Convert a VMWare image to a live CD image:

       mic-image-convertor -I your-vmware-image.vmdk -T liveusb

EXIT STATUS

       mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						    MIC-IMAGE-CONVERTOR(1)