On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:19:42 +0100 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've become used to using kickstart files to automate my Fedora > > installs to VMs and bare-metal x86 hardware. I'm getting started > > with Fedora on ARM and am wondering if there is something similar > > to create custom disk images. The closest I've found is the page > > on creating ARM remixes: > > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Creating_Remixes>. > > > > Is that still the way to go, or is there a better approach? > > It depends a little, ARMv7 or aarch64? The mechanism will work for > ARMv7, for aarch64 you'll need to use imagefactory. I'm currently experiment with F28 pre-release on both ARMv7 and aarch64 on a Raspberry Pi 3. It's somewhat tedious to get the same set up on both sd cards. Part of the attraction of the RPi is the ease of swapping cards, and I want an easy path to set them up. Thanks for the pointer to imagefactory. My searching had not found that before. I'll look into it. I also found the "Using Mock and --no-virt to Create Images" section of the livemedia-creator docs <https://github.com/weldr/lorax/blob/master/docs/livemedia-creator.rst#using-mock-and---no-virt-to-create-images> This looks very promising. > You can also run the install directly on the device as you can use > u-boot to PXE boot and kick off an install using tftp like on x86, > depending a little on the device some people will even put u-boot on a > small SD card, eg an old 128Mb one from a phone, and then pxe/tftp > install to another medium. With F-28 in theory (I'm not sure anyone > has had a chance to test it) you can use uEFI/iPXE from u-boot to do a > whole lot of other options too. I'm not sure I want to set up a PXE boot environment just for a Pi, and network booting a Pi is an advanced skill. For x86, I copy the ISO to a USB drive and inject the kickstart, which is easy and low overhead for an infrequent job. Jim _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
