[fedora-arm] Boot image vs PXE install

[Robert Moskowitz]

OK.  I will give this a look later today.  Got some people over the pond 
waiting for a report from me first...

On 03/09/2015 09:53 AM, Paul Whalen wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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.
> Speeds can vary from board to board. Customization is the largest benefit.
>
>> 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.
> Installation testing is greatly appreciated. You will need a tftp boot
> server setup, rsyncing the entire repo isn't required but will speed
> up the installations.
>
> The tests can be found here[1]. Installation on the development boards
> does require a couple of manual steps at the end of an interaction
> installation or a section in %post to deal with the 'fdtdir' and re-write
> uboot if you formatted the mSD/SD during installation.
>
> Paul
>
> [1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Summary
>