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[Larry Griffin <L_G_Griffin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Barry, Good info. I was able to get ubuntu-device-flash to attempt to install. I'm still on the learning curve, and I have grouper not Flo. :(  It looks like system-image-cli
 should do what I need, so I've installed it. Now I'm looking for a copy of the Manpage.


On 07/30/2014 07:07 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I don't dual boot - I've only ever flashed my device using
> ubuntu-device-flash, which takes a --channel argument.  So something like this
> will flash you to utopic:
>
> $ ubuntu-device-flash --channel ubuntu-touch/utopic
>
> Note the extended channel name containing a slash.  Channels were renamed a
> while ago.  ubuntu-device-flash has a --list-channels option you can use to
> list all available channels.
>
> If you have shell access to your device, once you're booted into Ubuntu, you
> can use the system-image-cli command to switch channels too.  Read the
> system-image-cli manpage for more details, however it's pretty easy.
>
> To see all available channels:
>
> $ system-image-cli --list-channels
>
> To switch channels, e.g.:
>
> $ system-image-cli --switch ubuntu-touch/utopic
>
> However, note that --switch only works with system-image 2.3.1 which isn't
> available in Trusty.  No matter; --switch is just an alias for
>
> $ system-image-cli -b 0 -c ubuntu-touch/utopic
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry