> > I have set up literally hundreds of CF cards for embedded systems. > > My final approach was to give the VM the usb raw device as its disk drive > and install directly to it. > > All I had to do 'postinstall' was run mkinitrd and add the ide and scsi > drivers to the command line, so it would boot in literally anything > supported by the kernel. > > I used the kvm VM for this because of its simplicity for me. YMMV. > > Pop in the CF card and watch it mount. Verify the drive id with df, then > unmount it. > > This example assumes that the CF card was mounted as /dev/sdbX. > > # qemu-kvm -hda /dev/sdb -cdrom CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso -net nic -net > user -m 1024 -kernel vmlinuz -initrd initrd.img -append "text > ks=http://10.1.10.197/ks/ks"; > > For me, I can kickstart a small custom Fedora or Centos build in about 7 > minutes, and pop it into an embedded device and boot it. > Phil, very interesting. What do you do to minimize writes to the cf card? Or is it not that big of a prob? I have turned off swap. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
