>>> I've become used to using kickstart files to automate my Fedora >>> installs to VMs and bare-metal x86 hardware. I'm getting started with >>> Fedora on ARM and am wondering if there is something similar to create >>> custom disk images. The closest I've found is the page on creating ARM >>> remixes: >>> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Creating_Remixes>. >>> >>> Is that still the way to go, or is there a better approach? >> >> It depends a little, ARMv7 or aarch64? The mechanism will work for >> ARMv7, for aarch64 you'll need to use imagefactory. >> >> You can also run the install directly on the device as you can use >> u-boot to PXE boot and kick off an install using tftp like on x86, >> depending a little on the device some people will even put u-boot on a >> small SD card, eg an old 128Mb one from a phone, and then pxe/tftp >> install to another medium. With F-28 in theory (I'm not sure anyone >> has had a chance to test it) you can use uEFI/iPXE from u-boot to do a >> whole lot of other options too.
> what is the best solution between > > using a pre-built image from fedora (it is really easy to dump the image > on a SD card and plug it into the ARM box :) ) > > using a kickstart process to setup it with all customizations you want > (but kickstart can be tricky to setup/tune at least a few years ago !) It depends on your use case, for the vast majority of users the easiest way is to use a pre-canned image and then use a tool like ansible to configure the machine to their liking. It tends to be more self contained and easier to deal with multiple different use cases. > By the way, is there documentation describing all stuffs need to kickstart > (u-boot for example) and how to setup everything The setup is basically the same as doing it on x86, u-boot (and uEFI on u-boot on aarch64), in the vast majority of devices, will automatically fall back to attempting to do network boot in the case there's no local OS install to boot. > on an external flash drive ? (it is easy to move lvm from sd to ssd for > example) Why move it? Why not set it up like that from the outset? The process would be the same as any other architecture/storage combination for moving data around with LVM, arm is no special case here. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
