[fedora-arm] building F18 Kirkwood images

[David Marlin]

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