On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:16:33PM +0000, James wrote > Anyway, I'd like to hear all of the ideas, including various > disciplined (structured) approaches I can take to minimize uniqueness > in my lab and what I'm currently doing (mostly). I also have usb > sticks, but I've found booting various offernings on usb, particularly > older hardware, to be too biosed_burdened. > > Bear in mind, I also have dozens of embedded boards, some x86, but > mostly arm based, that are also in the mix. As soon as some less expensive > arm64 (aarch64) boards become available, those too will become much more > prevalent in my lab. I need some new organizational (software and Image) > ideas. My hardware is very well organied on large, open racks with > lots of UPS power and easy physical access to each box/board.
You may be interested in buildroot http://buildroot.net/ and http://buildroot.net/about.html It's nominally aimed at cross-compiling for embedded systems, but it looks like it handles just about everything. I'm not a developer, so I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but it sounds interesting. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
