On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:32:02 -0600 James Szinger jszinger@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the pointer to imagefactory. My searching had not found that before. I'll look into it. I also found the "Using Mock and --no-virt to Create Images" section of the livemedia-creator docs https://github.com/weldr/lorax/blob/master/docs/livemedia-creator.rst#using-mock-and---no-virt-to-create-images This looks very promising.
Well, I tried it and ran into several obstacles. First, livemedia- creator in no-virt mode can't cross-install from x86 to ARM. Second, livemedia-creator in virt mode needs an install ISO, but there is no ISO for armfph and livemedia-creator can't find the kernel on the aarch64 media. Third, I tried running livemedia-creator on an aarch64 VM, but it's not as easy as it should be, and I don't have a successful image yet.
My next attempt will be to try virt-install to create a VM image and then copy the image to an sd card.
Failing that, I'll learn how to boot the RPi from a USB drive and use that to install to the sd card.
Jim