06-22-2016, 05:51 AM
Hi,
Let me give you an example to help clarify. Basically an image is a reflection of everything on a storage device. For example, I could take an image of my windows hard drive and the result would be a single file that contains everything in my hard drive. (Windows operating system, personal files, images, MP3's, etc/...) I could send you that image and then you could copy it to a hard drive and when you boot it, your computer would look just like mine. In practice, it is very easy to both create images and install images.
In the world of Windows, the easiest tool is called Win32diskimager and it allows you to both take an image and write an image.
In the world of Pine (and pretty much all similar systems) someone creates an image of a known good state and version of Linux. The users then decompress and copy that image to an SD Card and the result is fully bootable Linux OS. In our case, most of the images are maintained by third parties like Longsleep and Lenny.
Let me give you an example to help clarify. Basically an image is a reflection of everything on a storage device. For example, I could take an image of my windows hard drive and the result would be a single file that contains everything in my hard drive. (Windows operating system, personal files, images, MP3's, etc/...) I could send you that image and then you could copy it to a hard drive and when you boot it, your computer would look just like mine. In practice, it is very easy to both create images and install images.
In the world of Windows, the easiest tool is called Win32diskimager and it allows you to both take an image and write an image.
In the world of Pine (and pretty much all similar systems) someone creates an image of a known good state and version of Linux. The users then decompress and copy that image to an SD Card and the result is fully bootable Linux OS. In our case, most of the images are maintained by third parties like Longsleep and Lenny.