diff --git a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml index 459d7471ca..35eebbcd8c 100644 --- a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml +++ b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml @@ -502,22 +502,28 @@
Downloading the Filesystem - The filesystem image has two forms. - One form is an ext3 filesystem image. - The other form is a tarball of the filesystem and is booted using user-space NFS. - Here are the respective forms: + The filesystem image has two tarball forms: ext3 and + tar. + You must use the ext3 form when booting an image using the + QEMU emulator. + The tar form can be flattened out in your host development system + and used for Yocto Project build purposes. - yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>.rootfs.ext3.bz2 - yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>.rootfs.tar.bz2 + yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>-<release>.rootfs.ext3.bz2 + yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>-<release>.rootfs.tar.bz2 Where: <profile> is the filesystem image's profile: - sdk, sato, minimal, or lsb. + lsb, lsb-dev, lsb-sdk, minimal, minimal-dev, sato, sato-dev, or sato-sdk. + For information on these types of image profiles, see + Reference: Images in the Yocto Project Reference Manual. <arch> is a string representing the target architecture: x86, x86-64, ppc, mips, or arm. + + <release> is the version of Yocto Project.