Chris Tyler wrote: >> *since we don't seem to support kickstart, and we don't have an >> installer, you can really only import in an existing image. But hey it >> is better then what we had! > > The concept of an "installer" in ARM land is pretty limited. There is a > graphical installer for Sheeva/Guruplugs, but it's primarily a tool for > installing a kernel and prebuilt rootfs (it would be hard to package for > Fedora, too, since it contains an entire prebuilt Linux image for use > during bootstrapping, and building that from source would be Big). Sheeva can get a kernel image to boot via TFTP, so making an "installer" kickstart a base image shouldn't be too difficult. the problem is booting the installer in the first place. Having said that - it would be much, much more efficient if the Fedora/RH installer installed the minimum build from a single tar ball (i.e. the rootfs). The extra disk I/O required by maintaining the RPM database at every step really slows things down on cheap flash, not to mention that it wastes an awful lot of life of a SD/CF card with all those small writes. Installing a gig of packages onto an SD card on the Sheeva can take literally hours. The only way I have managed to make this sort of thing bearable is by LD_PRELOAD=libeatmydata.so before I run yum. Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
