[fedora-arm] Using livemedia-creator on ARM

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jiri Kastner <cz172638 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 07:55:15 -0500, David A. Marlin 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
>>
>> 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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>
> hi,
> what about to use spacewalk for kickstarting arm devices with installer
> images, as kickstarting works without pxe when executed rhn_check or
> automatically via rhnsd? maybe not all will be working for first time.

We plan on using the same process that rel-eng uses to automatically
build spins/Amazon images in koji and it uses .ks files with
media-creator.

Peter