[fedora-arm] F20 Beta-5 on BeagleBone Black (solved/update)

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> OK, thanks to all the tips and tricks from yesterday in my previous thread,
> I got F20 Beta-5 up and running on a microSD on the BBB, completely headless,
> with only a network cable.  Some comments:
>
> -  All the boot troubles were probably related to my attempts to push the
>    boot button and expecting LEDs to turn on, not waiting long enough, etc.
>    I see the instructions are adapted in the meantime.
>
> -  The lines in the FAQ about deleting systemd service links can be removed,
>    as they do not apply anymore for the F20 Beta-5 image and are confusing.
>
> -  Just as a side note: I did not do the last 3 commands in the FAQ, but
>    editted /etc/shadow on the image and copied an encrypted password that
>    I know into the root entry.  This might be easier for others too.
>
> -  After booting, I resized mmcblk0p3 with fdisk, rebooted, and used
>    resize2fs to resize the fs.
>
> Now one remaining question: is there a repository I can use for adding
> packages now or should I wait till F20 final is released?  I want to do
> some experiments for applications I have in mind, for which I need to
> add several packages (and their dependencies.

The standard Fedora yum repo and package set is available by default.
Check the date is correct before you run yum.

Peter