On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:32 PM, James Szinger <jszinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. There's issues for some use cases using --no-virt >> 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. At the moment for ARMv7 we don't support installer ISOs, we do on aarch64 for server, and uEFI u-boot support should support this on aarch64 but I've not tested it. Ansible is also a good solution that doesn't require a lot of infra. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
