Hello, below you can find an email which I received related to creating system images for a Fedora embedded-like system. It would be a good idea to discuss this possibility as I am sure we can all benefit for a standardize process (complete or partly). kind regards, Gerard -- Gerard Braad — 吉拉德 Open Source/Linux Consultant in Beijing Project-lead Fedora-MIPS http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:gbraad ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Federico Simoncelli <federico.simoncelli@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:12 PM Subject: Set of tools for embedded systems To: gbraad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi all, my plan is to build a set of tools to generate and write a system rootfs to a device (SD, CF, etc...). The main features I'm focusing on are: * It should work for any architecture (x86, arm, mips, etc...) to gather in one project all the experience from each group of developers * Once you have the rootfs, it must be fast (imagine you have to produce the largest amount of SD/CF devices possible) Right now I'm dealing with x86 processors so I'll explain what my script does for me and I hope in some feedback about what you need to make it work on your architecture: Tasks: 1 Partition the device 2 Format the partitions 3 Mount the filesystems 4 Explode the rootfs tar.gz 5 Replace some files (and tuning), eg: fstab (tmpfs, noatime), sysctl.conf (swappiness), inittab (agetty) 6 Relabel (if selinux is needed) - not yet fully working, any selinux expert out there? 7 Unmount the partitions 8 Install the bootloader (only grub for now) Things we should discuss about: * Can we all decide to use qemu to install the system on a file device and standardize the generation of the rootfs tar.gz too? * In task 5 there are a lot of things that are common to everybody (eg: swappiness, tmpfs) and many things that are hardware related (eg: ifcfg-ethX), we should split them * Relabeling is currently not working, I need help * Do we need to support an other bootloader? * Can we build a system-restore feature? Thank you for you attention, Best regards, -- Federico Simoncelli federico.simoncelli@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
