[fedora-arm] building F18 Kirkwood images

[Derek Atkins]

David,

I would be happy to help, however I have been unable to get the F17-GA
image to run on my Guruplug..  If I could get that running then I could
attempt to help with the F18 work.

-derek

David Marlin <dmarlin at redhat.com> writes:

> It was brought to my attention that the F18 Alpha lacked a Kirkwood
> image, which we had for F17.  We have been creating images for F18
> using livemedia-creator (anaconda and lorax), where the F17 images
> were manually created using a custom script.
>
> The process we use is described on the wiki:
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Installer
>
> All the builders we have used for creating the F18 images are F17
> armv7hl (hard-fp) systems.  I personally have no experience with the
> Kirkwood devices, so I don't know what is needed to set up the image
> or configure the bootloader.
>
> We would appreciate volunteers running F17 on Kirkwood devices to help
> in creating an F18 image for those devices.  The only development
> involved would be customizing the kickstart file to 1) include any
> special packages required for the device, and 2) set up any bootloader
> specific files/scripts needed for the device.  The remainder of the
> effort would be to build and test the image.  The hardware
> requirements include an ARMv5 device running F17-GA or later with
> access to external storage (requires space for the packages being
> installed and the resulting image) and swap (requires >1GB total
> memory).
>
> We have created v7hl images using a Trim Slice (1GB memory plus 500MB
> swap) with external (USB) hard drive, so something similar would
> probably work.
>
> I am willing to provide assistance and answer questions about using
> the tools and modifying the kickstart config file, but I have no ARMv5
> hardware on which to build or test these images.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> d.marlin
>
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