diff --git a/docs/user/getting_started.rst b/docs/user/getting_started.rst index dbd1ed8d..6180364f 100644 --- a/docs/user/getting_started.rst +++ b/docs/user/getting_started.rst @@ -90,12 +90,21 @@ In case of errors read the messages carefully and try to fix the stated issues ( ``ar71xx-generic`` is the most common target and will generate images for most of the supported hardware. To see a complete list of supported targets, call ``make`` without setting ``GLUON_TARGET``. -The built images can be found in the directory `output/images`. Of these, the factory +You should reserve about 10GB of disk space for each `GLUON_TARGET`. + +The built images can be found in the directory `output/images`. Of these, the `factory` images are to be used when flashing from the original firmware a device came with, -and sysupgrade is to upgrade from other versions of Gluon or any other OpenWrt-based +and `sysupgrade` is to upgrade from other versions of Gluon or any other OpenWrt-based system. -You should reserve about 10GB of disk space for each `GLUON_TARGET`. +**Note:** The images for some models are identical; to save disk space, symlinks are generated instead +of multiple copies of the same image. If your webserver's configuration prohibits following +symlinks, you can use the following command to resolve these links while copying the images:: + + cp -rL output/images /var/www + +Cleaning the build tree +....................... There are two levels of `make clean`::