On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:55 [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a > > u-sd, > > so far, so good... > > > so you get that crap regardless and must physically remove it before > > a > > That is not true: Raspbian, for example, has a "normal" Debian repo at > https://archive.raspbian.org. With debootstap, schroot and Qemu you > can build a customized Raspbian system. The firmware (i.e. the binary > stuff needed for the VideoCore IV "co"-processor plus the kernel > images can also be had at https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git. > > With all that you can build a viable image to "burn" on an SD card, > all from the confort of your powerful desktop machine. > > I know because I've done it. My writeup is still pretty incomplete, > not yet fit for publishing, but others have written about it: > > https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/78232/install-base-ras >pbian-from-repository-not-using-an-image/ > https://blog.kmp.or.at/build-your-own-raspberry-pi-image/
Interesting, and I'd be very interested in doing exactly that since what I'm doing with a pi-3b is not (that I know of) being done on a day to day business by anyone else on this planet. There may be others on the LCNC (emc-users) mailing list that have played with this, but AFAIK I am the only one actually making hot swarf with a pi. > How do you think the Raspberry Pi founadion builds its images? > No clue Tomas. The problems I've had haven't given me any time to think about that. > Cheers > -- tomás Take care Tomas. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
