26/Sep: How to make your own image for MCRi

[Guest Paul]

MCRi makes installing ROM images easy, but more than ever before it makes creating them easy!

To create your own image that's flashable via MCRi...

• get your device to exactly how you want it
  
• 'adb shell' to your device and run 'tar zcvf /sdcard/mcri-system.myrom.tar.gz -C /system *'
  

That's it!

You now have a tar.gz that you can share! It only contains your /system image, so none of your personal data is in there. End users flash by dropping the file onto their SD card named 'mcri-system.tar.gz' and rebooting their device (they need the MCRi bootloader installed of course).

Simple eh? :lol: If you get an error running tar, you are probably missing busybox...

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[Guest HugoQueiriga]

I get the following errors;

tar: init: No such file or directory

tar: init.blade.rc: No such file or directory

tar: init.goldfish.rc: No such file or directory

tar: init.qcom.post_boot.sh: No such file or directory

tar: init.qcom.rc: No such file or directory

tar: init.qcom.sh: No such file or directory

tar: init.rc: No such file or directory

tar: logo.bmp: No such file or directory

tar: mcri: No such file or directory

tar: persist: No such file or directory

tar: proc: No such file or directory

tar: root: No such file or directory

tar: sbin: No such file or directory

tar: sdcard: No such file or directory

tar: sqlite_stmt_journals: No such file or directory

tar: sys: No such file or directory

tar: system: No such file or directory

tar: usb.conf: No such file or directory

tar: var: No such file or directory

tar: error exit delayed from previous errors

I presume its because of permissions?

[Guest DanWilson]

(they need the MCRi bootloader installed of course).

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Is that a custom fastboot? Or just an uber modified boot.img?

[Guest Sebastian404]

I get the following errors;

I presume its because of permissions?

did you do a SU before you started? your going to need to be root to get access to some of those directorys

[Guest HugoQueiriga]

did you do a SU before you started? your going to need to be root to get access to some of those directorys

Yes used SU and the phone is rooted.

[Guest Paul]

the '-C /system' should tell it to start in system...

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[Guest Paul]

It's case sensitive...

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[Guest Paul]

Is that a custom fastboot? Or just an uber modified boot.img?

Uber modified boot.img!

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