[fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/09/2014 04:37 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:30:31PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Sorry for jumping in at them middle of the thread, I skimmed
>> over it, without realizing that this is something I'm very much
>> interested in. As you probably have seen I plan to add
>> official allwinner support to F-21:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport
>>
>> I personally like what I'm doing with the Allwinner remix images
>> better then the 2 images to dd idea.
>>
>> What I've there is:
>> 1) A boards dir on the boot partition which contains
>> u-boot .bin files as well as dtb files for all supported
>> boards
>>
>> 2) A script "select-boards.sh" which can be run from the sdcard
>> when inserted into any linux machine (*), which then presents
>> a (ncurses) menu to the user allowing the user to select his
>> board, and then does all the needed setup to get the image
>> ready for that board.
>
> While there is nothing wrong with select-boards.sh (I've used it
> myself), I hate having to examine a script that I have to run as root
> on my host computer, that is going to overwrite some /dev/sdX device.
>
> I'd prefer the ~100 boot images in a directory option, if it meant
> that I could just use regular unxz/dd commands.

Without intending any disrespect I don't think that you are the
typical user we want to optimize this for. More and more novice
users are starting to play around with arm boards (which will hopefully
make them non novices eventually) and I think we want to make things
as easy for them as possible. And these users are already used
to blindly trusting installers :)

Regards,

Hans