[fedora-arm] F17 snapshot images

["Andy Green (林安廸)"]

On 03/30/2012 02:20 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've put together a script to create up-to-date F17 snapshot images and
> am storing the result on my people page.  These are based on Peter's F17
> alpha1 images with the following changes:
> 
> There is a tarball without any kernels included.
> 
> There is a tarball with uBoot-wrapped kernels included (should have
> everything you need without messy mkimage commands).  The armhfp version
> includes tegra, omap and imx kernels.  The arm version includes kirkwood.
> 
> There are bzcat+dd images for Tegra and OMAP- no partitioning necessary
> to get started.  These decompress to 8GB- if you have a larger storage
> device resize2fs is your friend.

It's great that you're doing this, but I don't think dding partition +
filesystems is a good idea.

We found that various "8GB" SD cards have different absolute numbers of
available sectors, it can lead to eventual filesystem corruption if your
image is slightly large than someone else's card.

If someone's going to try this they're probably OK running fdisk and
using tarballs.

> The files are currently uploading and will be entirely there in a few
> more minutes.  You can get the latest at:
> 
> http://blc.fedorapeople.org/fedora-arm/f17/
> 
> This is very much a work in progress, completely unofficial, largely
> untested, but hopefully useful.  Feel free to send me feedback.  Enjoy,

I've been using Peter's F17 alpha1 image and following progress with
updates, it's been very good.  It's stuck as of last week with
gnome-shell problems though.  But generally package completeness has
been increasing really well last few weeks, great job.

-Andy