On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 11:13 PM Felix Geschwindner via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fedora on RPI is AMAZING and I'm working on a project to automate provisioning for a Raspberry Pi cluster. This would add a ton of CI capabilities and convenience. It would also take the edge of the nuisance that RPIs eat SD cards like I eat Oreos. > Right now the process is pretty manual: > > 1. Put SD card in secondary machine > 2. DD Fedora's minimal aarch64 image onto SD card > 3. Grow partition > 4. Put SD card back > 5. Boot > 6. Go through initial setup > 7. Update all packages > 8. Continue with regular config and host management > > This requires being physically in front of the RPIs (and provisioning machine) and involves a lot of hand holding. I can't help with the PXE boot, but perhaps the Fedora Arm list might help <arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I have managed to use virt-install with a kickstart file to setup an aarch64 virtual-machine on an x86_64 host. I think if you copy the magic bits from the official Fedora arm kickstarts, you end up with an image that can be copied to an SD card. Perhaps the following might work: 1. Write a kickstart file setup the way you want. 2. Run virt-install with this kickstart. Make the disk image big enough that you don't have to resize. 2a. Periodically refresh the master image. 3. Clone the VM and run virt-sysprep to do the initial setup. 4. dd the image to the SD card. 5. put the SD card back and boot. 6. Continue with regular config and host management. Pretty much everything except handling the SD cards can be scripted. Jim _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
