On 2014-08-07 15:51, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 08/06/2014 09:16 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 2014-08-06 14:01, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 08/05/2014 03:32 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 08/05/2014 08:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Where can I find instructions for installing Redsleeve on a
Cubieboard2?
I have SD cards build for Fedora 19 and 20 remixs and have working
SD
cards for Fedora 21 alpha.
I don't think anybody documented installation on Cubieboard2 yet. If
you have it working with a Fedora image, it should be a simple case
of preparing a new image based on the Fedora one, extracting the RS
rootfs, and copying the contents of /boot, /var/lib/modules and
/var/lib/firmware over from the Fedora image. If there are any
special driver considerations/options, you may also need to copy
/etc/modprobe.d over.
Unfortunately, I need a lot more help than that. For now, I want to
boot from an SD card, so I have to build the partitions: /boot, swap,
and /.
Do I build them with something like Gparted on my F20 notebook?
Actually, I have one that has F21 pre-alpha on it, and I can use it
as
a starter as the partitions are there.
The first thing to do would be to check if the current working
image uses DOS or GPT partitions, but to keep things as simple
as possible no matter how woefully inefficient, I suggest you dd
the working image onto a clean card, and make sure that works.
If it does, put the card into another machine, mount the file
systems to, say, /mnt, and then delete everything under /mnt
except:
/mnt/boot
/mnt/lib/modules
/mnt/lib/firmware
/mnt/etc/fstab
Then extract the tarball into /mnt (tar -C /mnt -jxvf rootfs.tar.xz)
I am looking at this again and what I now see is that the Redsleeve
files would overlay any duplicates.
The only place where this is plausible is in /lib/firmware.
I could see that in the firmware where there are ethernet drivers and
the like; I would want the ones that Redsleeve understands, not F19.
It makes relatively little difference. The firmware blobs are
uploaded by the driver to the hardware. In most cases either should
work. You are using the kernel and the drivers from F19, so
arguably you should also use F19 firmware, just in case something
happened to break the firmware-driver compatibility - it's a
plausible possibility, although I don't think I have ever seen this
happen.
But I would think that fstab should be from the F19 to get the
partitions right, afterall, why save it.
Indeed, that's why I originally said you would likely need to
edit the fstab to suit the device.
Gordan
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