[fedora-arm] Boot image vs PXE install

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Mar 9 13:25:02 UTC 2015


The thread from Tomasz is interesting.  I was jsut in the mode of 
thinking that armv7 builds would be copy an image to SD and go.

I mean how much time to you save on an PXE build to SD versus xzcat to 
SD?  I might think that for the basic build, xzcat on a host is faster.  
Then you run a script that does what kickstart does.  The only 
consideration I have so far with this is sizing the partitions on the SD 
card.  I would like a larger swap to prepare for when I can hibernate to 
swap and getting the / partition to fill the card.

But then I started working with the partitions on the HDD.  It is a 
little harder to move a HDD between systems than a mSD card, so minimum 
boot from an SD card that then did the kickstart to the HDD (or SSD) 
makes more sense.

I can pull the F22-arm and repo to my local server; I do that for a 
number of distros every night (rsync changes) and do testing of a local 
install that way.  Of course my repo is on a different subnet than my 
install testing; I would have to put up the PXE boot function, etc.

So, lending a hand on a more Anaconda-style install to HD from a minimal 
SD card is something that I can help with, point me to what I can do to 
help.




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