ian_brasil:

I second that. Looks like the instructions are not up-to-date anyway. The URL provided for Ubuntu images site no longer exist. In the Natty directory there are only images for OMAP4. Additionally, theres now a meego image from 5-Jan as opposed to the 21-Dec described there.

In QA POV, its better to force testers to check on prepackaged deliveries, so that errors that arise from inconsistencies of self packaging can be ruled out.
In the lazy slub POV, I would rather have a rootfs.tar.gz

Remember: the easier the deployment will be, the more testers thou shall have