documentation: insist more on why output/target/ should not be used

A lot of people complain that the root filesystem generated by
Buildroot doesn't work because it lacks the device files. This is
because they use output/target/ instead of one of the images.

Therefore, insist in the documentation on this point. Even though I'm
unsure if users really read the documentation :-)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Thomas Petazzoni 2009-10-30 09:06:47 +01:00
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binaries and libraries, that make it far too big for an embedded
system.</li>
<li><code>target/<code> which contains the root filesystem for
the target. Only the necessary files to run the libraries and
applications are installed in this directory. However,
<code>target/dev/</code> doesn't contain the device files, as
creating device files requires the root access. The device files
only exist in the root filesystem image produced by
Buildroot.</li>
<li><code>target/</code> which contains <i>almost</i> the root
filesystem for the target: everything needed is present except
the device files in <code>/dev/</code> (Buildroot can't create
them because Buildroot doesn't run as root and does not want to
run as root). Therefore, this directory <b>should not be used on
your target</b> but instead you should use one of the images
built in the <code>images/</code> directory. If you need an
extracted image of the root filesystem, for booting over NFS,
then use the tarball image generated in <code>images/</code> and
extract it as root.<br/>Compared to <code>staging/</code>,
<code>target/</code> contains only the necessary files to run
the libraries and applications: all the development files
(headers, etc.) are not present.</li>
<li><code>host/</code> contains the installation of tools
compiled for the host that are needed for the proper execution