[fedora-arm] Using livemedia-creator on ARM

Niels de Vos devos at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 16 07:42:33 UTC 2012


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM, David A. Marlin <dmarlin at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I have a draft of the instructions for using livemedia-creator
> (Anaconda/Lorax) for creating a disk image on ARM:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Installer

Many thanks for documenting and sharing! This should make it pretty
easy to create images for other hardware as well. I'm not sure when I
get the time to try it out, though. I've only read and bookmarked it
for now, but hope to provide feedback later.

Cheers,
Niels


> I have only tested this on the Trim Slice, and it seems to work well.  This
> assumes you have adequate backing storage (hard disk) to hold the resulting
> images.  If the host system does not have a hard drive, some alternate
> storage may need to be set up to hold the disk image (i.e., NFS or iSCSI).
>
> Although other ARM platforms should be recognized by Anaconda/Lorax, I don't
> have any specific U-Boot scripts or templates set up for them yet.
>
> Note: I am trying to get these changes upstream, but they will not be
> accepted in F17 (too late in the cycle), so I am keeping them in a separate
> repo for testing.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or have suggestions for
> improvement.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> d.marlin
>
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