On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:30 PM, James Szinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:32:02 -0600
> James Szinger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the pointer to imagefactory.  My searching had not found
>> that before.  I'll look into it.  I also found the "Using Mock and
>> --no-virt to Create Images" section of the livemedia-creator docs
>> <https://github.com/weldr/lorax/blob/master/docs/livemedia-creator.rst#using-mock-and---no-virt-to-create-images>
>> This looks very promising.
>
> Well, I tried it and ran into several obstacles.  First, livemedia-
> creator in no-virt mode can't cross-install from x86 to ARM.  Second,

Correct, rpm scripts need to be run on native arch.

> livemedia-creator in virt mode needs an install ISO, but there is no
> ISO for armfph and livemedia-creator can't find the kernel on the
> aarch64 media.  Third, I tried running livemedia-creator on an aarch64
> VM, but it's not as easy as it should be, and I don't have a
> successful image yet.

LMC is largely untested from my point of view, we use imagefactory for
most things aarch64, and appliance-creator currently for ARMv7 but I
intend to move all that to imagefactory soon too.

> My next attempt will be to try virt-install to create a VM image and
> then copy the image to an sd card.
>
> Failing that, I'll learn how to boot the RPi from a USB drive and use
> that to install to the sd card.
>
> Jim
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