[fedora-arm] building F18 Kirkwood images

[Quentin Armitage]

David,

I'd be very happy to help with building images. I have a Dreamplug
currently running F18 from an old nightly snapshot, which has been fully
updated via yum. I'd happily put F17 on that and have a go at creating
some images, or would it be acceptable to create the images on an F18
system?

I have a USB hard drive available, so that's not a problem. You make
reference to 1Gb of memory, but my Dreamplugs 
and Sheevaplugs have 512Mb of memory. Will that be sufficient if there
is enough swap space?

I've never used kickstart files before but am happy to learn.

Would the guys at Seneca College have anything useful to help with this,
since I see that the nightly composes of images started again yesterday?

With best wishes,
Quentin 


On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 17:09 -0500, David Marlin wrote:

> It was brought to my attention that the F18 Alpha lacked a Kirkwood 
> image, which we had for F17.  We have been creating images for F18 using 
> livemedia-creator (anaconda and lorax), where the F17 images were 
> manually created using a custom script.
> 
> The process we use is described on the wiki:
> 
>    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Installer
> 
> All the builders we have used for creating the F18 images are F17 
> armv7hl (hard-fp) systems.  I personally have no experience with the 
> Kirkwood devices, so I don't know what is needed to set up the image or 
> configure the bootloader.
> 
> We would appreciate volunteers running F17 on Kirkwood devices to help 
> in creating an F18 image for those devices.  The only development 
> involved would be customizing the kickstart file to 1) include any 
> special packages required for the device, and 2) set up any bootloader 
> specific files/scripts needed for the device.  The remainder of the 
> effort would be to build and test the image.  The hardware requirements 
> include an ARMv5 device running F17-GA or later with access to external 
> storage (requires space for the packages being installed and the 
> resulting image) and swap (requires >1GB total memory).
> 
> We have created v7hl images using a Trim Slice (1GB memory plus 500MB 
> swap) with external (USB) hard drive, so something similar would 
> probably work.
> 
> I am willing to provide assistance and answer questions about using the 
> tools and modifying the kickstart config file, but I have no ARMv5 
> hardware on which to build or test these images.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> d.marlin
> 
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