[fedora-arm] Announcing Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's cat) for the 2012 Samsung Chromebook

[Jon]

As promised the other desktop environment spins have landed:

KDE
LXDE
MATE
MINIMAL
XFCE

These are located at my Fedora people page [1]
Instruction are located on the Fedora-arm remix wiki [2]

Going forward I plan to gradually improve these images.
* The next step is to provide a better kernel more inline with Fedora
kernel standards.
* Later down the road hope to use the Fedora Multi-Platform kernel
once upstream Exynos support improves.
* nv-u-boot (chainned bootloader) support


Some folks have expressed interest in an easy way to put these images
on the internal SSD.
That should be possible, but I've not tried.
Will probably provide a tarball of the minimal rootfs to enable people
to update the script published earlier this year by Daniel Berrangé
[3]


[1] http://parasense.fedorapeople.org/
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19/Remixes
[3] https://www.berrange.com/posts/2013/03/31/automated-install-of-fedora-18-arm-on-a-samsung-google-chromebook/


Thanks,
-Jon Disnard
fas: parasense
irc: masta

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jon <Parasense at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the availability of Fedora 19 for the 2012 Samsung
> Chromebook featuring ARM Exynos dual core A15 processor.
>
> The initial release is based on MATE desktop environment.
> Expect to see KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and SUGAR to land in the next few days.
>
>
> Exact steps:
> (assume the sdcard is /dev/sdz)
>
> # fetch the remix image
> wget http://parasense.fedorapeople.org/f19-chromebook-MATE.img.xz
>
> # write the image to sdcard
> sudo xzcat f19-chromebook-MATE.img.xz > /dev/sdz
>
> # resize the rootfs partition
> sudo sgdisk -p -a8192 -e -d5 -n5:0:0 -t5:8300 -c5:'ROOTFS' -p /dev/sdz
>
> # resize the rootfs ext4 filesystem
> sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdz5
> sudo resize2fs /dev/sdz5
>
> #THE END
>
>
> For more details please visit our REMIX site at:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19/Remixes
>
>
> Please note this is an unofficial REMIX image.
> For support, you can find me (masta) in #fedora-arm on IRC
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Jon Disnard
> fas: parasense
> irc: masta