On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/06/2012 10:33 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: > >> >> But back to the original question: what's the optimal way to package an >> installable image? I see several valid options: >> >> (1)- Per-platform image with MBR plus one or more partitions, with the >> last partition shipped as minimal length and resizable to fill the >> device (either at installation or firstboot). >> >> (2)- Per-platform tarball, including a tarball for a boot partition (if >> applicable) plus a tarball of the rootfs, plus some sort of layout >> config file (XML? script?) that configures how the partitioning is set >> up. >> >> (3)- Generic per-arch (armv5tel/armv7hl) rootfs tarball plus >> per-platform boot tarball, separately downloaded. (Nice to cache the >> rootfs if installing into multiple, different devices, but messy as far >> as RPM knowledge of what's on the boot partition). >> >> I think having an easy installer is ultimately more important than which >> format we use. To get tens of thousands of people running Fedora on >> Raspis in the next six months, for example, we need a tool that's >> friendly, dirt-simple to use, and ideally runs on Windows as well as >> Fedora. > > Speaking for a possible minority position here, I'd also like to > see a solution that scales well for business customers looking > to provision dozens to hundreds of notes with real SATA drives. > A generic 2GB image intended for an SD-card is probably not going > to fit the bill. No, you would want a standard anaconda install for that using kickstart files. The is planned and TBH may already even work. > I don't see how anything other than option 3 is sustainable over > any significant number of different platforms, though. So I'd > want to see a resizable generic per-arch rootfs that is > intended to be the last partition following 0 or more boot > partitions that are platform specific. I agree. The ultimate plan is to use anaconda for all options. Things will settle down when things like device-tree become the norm and we can use a few standard kernels across devices. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
