Fedora ARM Installer

I'm see that iso images available but can't understand how to use it. All manuals
says about compressed *.raw.xz images which must be unpacked (at least under windows) to
write on SD card. I've tried to use win32dd or some other raw copy tools to write iso
image to SD card (and even tried USB stick) but no luck. May be someone can explain how to
use iso installer images to install system like it installed on normal PC.

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:54 AM,  <shashilx(a)shashilx.com&gt; wrote:
>  I'm see that iso images available but can't understand how to
> use it. All manuals says about compressed *.raw.xz images which must be unpacked (at least
> under windows) to write on SD card. I've tried to use win32dd or some other raw copy
> tools to write iso image to SD card (and even tried USB stick) but no luck. May be someone
> can explain how to use iso installer images to install system like it installed on normal
> PC. 
The iso installers are more for 64 bit enterprise devices and they are
used just like

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:54 AM,  <shashilx(a)shashilx.com&gt;
> wrote:
> > I'm see that iso images available but can't understand how to use it. All
> manuals says about compressed *.raw.xz images which must be unpacked (at least under
> windows) to write on SD card. I've tried to use win32dd or some other raw copy tools
> to write iso image to SD card (and even tried USB stick) but no luck. May be someone can
> explain how to use iso installer images to install system like it installed on normal PC.
The iso installers are more for 64 bit enterprise devices and they are
used just like you would on an x86 device.

What are you trying to achieve?

I want to run installer and install from scratch on RPi 3 instead of using ready-to-use
.raw image.

[Richard Ryniker]

> compressed *.raw.xz images which must be unpacked (at least under
> windows) to write on SD card. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils  provides links to programs that
should expand the .xz file on a Windows system.  The expanded
file is what must be copied to a SD card and used in an ARM device.

Note that the raw image has a modest size (in order to fit on an 8GB SD
card.)  I usually use 16GB or 32GB SD cards, and expand the ext4 root
filesystem on the SD card to the maximum possible size for the card in
use, before I boot on an ARM device.  Any Fedora system can do this
(x86 architecture is fine) using the parted, e2fsck, and resize2fs
commands.  This is not a necessary step, but it is easy to run out of
space when there is only a few gigabytes available, as in the raw image.

It would be convenient if the First Boot operation offered an option to
resize the root filesystem.  Someone may have already done this, yet I
failed to notice because of my habit.

Have no problems with uncompress it just want to use installer iso image but can't
understand where I must put iso image (write to USB? or it can be writed to SD card,
installer loads in RAM so I can use installation source as destination source?)

[Paul Whalen]

----- Original Message -----
>  Have no problems with uncompress it just want to use installer iso
> image but
>  can't understand where I must put iso image (write to USB? or it can be
>  writed to SD card, installer loads in RAM so I can use installation source
>  as destination source?) 
The script is for deploying the disk images. To do an actual installation on the 
rpi3 you would need to run a tftp server and pxe boot. Anaconda requires more than
1G RAM for a network install, so you will also need to nfs mount the squashfs.
If you dont want to go through the pain of setting up the tftp server, you can 
likely hack up a minimal usb stick with the kernel/initrd and squashfs from 
the installation repo and a custom extlinux.conf pointing to the repo in the apend
line. In either case you will need a mSD with the firmware and U-boot and install
to USB attached disk.

Paul

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