Offline Installation
If a machine is not connected to the internet, preventing access to the online files, an option exists to create an offline image and manually copy and use it on the offline machine:
- Start the Installer on a machine connected to the internet
- Select the components you want to install on the offline machine (Example: select LinkServer and Arm GNU Toolchain)
- Create the offline image from the Options menu. Select Create offline images -> choose desired target host OS:
- Wait for the image to finish being created. This is indicated in the MCUXpresso Installer console along with the steps needed in order to use the image:
- Copy all files from online machine directory: MCUXpressoInstaller layout/.cache/offline/desired target host OS
- Paste all files to the target offline machine directory: MCUXpressoInstaller layout/.cache
- Start MCUXpresso Installer on the target machine and select and install the components as created in the offline image.
Note: Some installation steps (the ones requiring active internet connection at install) are not included in the offline image (example: python modules). These are not addressed by the current offline image functionality.