On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:30 PM, James Szinger <jszinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:32:02 -0600 > James Szinger <jszinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > Well, I tried it and ran into several obstacles. First, livemedia- > creator in no-virt mode can't cross-install from x86 to ARM. Second, Correct, rpm scripts need to be run on native arch. > livemedia-creator in virt mode needs an install ISO, but there is no > ISO for armfph and livemedia-creator can't find the kernel on the > aarch64 media. Third, I tried running livemedia-creator on an aarch64 > VM, but it's not as easy as it should be, and I don't have a > successful image yet. LMC is largely untested from my point of view, we use imagefactory for most things aarch64, and appliance-creator currently for ARMv7 but I intend to move all that to imagefactory soon too. > My next attempt will be to try virt-install to create a VM image and > then copy the image to an sd card. > > Failing that, I'll learn how to boot the RPi from a USB drive and use > that to install to the sd card. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
