All the files have been uploaded to
http://medon.htt-consult.com/~rgm/redsleeve/
But I do not have the bandwidth for people to generally be downloading
from there.
Note that the minimal compress image is only 36Mb larger than the RSEL
tarball and it has all of the Cubieboard files. Thanks for telling me
to use the -9 compression and free out all free blocks.
Comments on the writeup are welcomed. I am not particularly skilled in
writing things up on a wiki. The only time I did one was some years
back for some things I did for AMAHI (like a mail server). So putting
this up in a wiki, I would need a lot of help and I am short on time. I
am actually doing all of this for a work project, so this is just the
ground-setting steps. Not the actual work I am suppose to be doing!
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Redsleeve build on a Cubieboard 2.
It should work equally as well on a Cubietruck, and may work on any of
the Allwinner A20 boards listed in the /uboot/boards directory.
Note that Cubieboard lacks an RTC and that impacts booting until NTP
updates the system time. Also there is no EEprom, so the MAC addr is
local scope derived from the SID. This MAY cause MAC addr conflicts on
a bridged network.
I did this install on an 8Gb SDcard. It should be easy to install on a
larger card and expand the rootfs partition. Also this SHOULD work on a
HDD or SSD, but I have not done this yet.
This install will be using the RSEL6 build from:
http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/yum/os/rsel6-rootfs-gui-20130927-1.tar.xz
The instructions will include every step, but at some points I will be
providing tar files or the compressed image to start at that point.
You will need a Cubieboard 2 (or other Allwinner A20 board), at least an
8Gb SDcard for booting (actual size of 7950Mb, check with 'parted
/dev/sd? print'). A serial USB connection to the serial console is
also nice, but should not be necessary. I use 'screen /dev/ttyUSB0
115200 ' to access the serial console.
First make a F19 card; boot and build tarballs
F19 installation instructions are at:
http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cb2/installation/cb2_fedora_19_card_install
Then make the following 3 tarballs:
tar -cJf f19-uboot.tar.xz -C /boot .
tar -cJf f19-firmware.tar.xz -C /lib/firmware .
tar -cJf f19-modules.tar.xz -C /lib/modules .
These are provide at (TBD) so if you wish, you can skip the F19 build
and start here with these tarballs.
Build blank 8Gb SDcard
As root, use some method to delete existing partitions (first umount
them!) like:
parted /dev/sdb rm 1
etc.
Then create the needed partitions:
parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary ext3 4 516
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary linux-swap 516 1540
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary ext4 1540 7950
mke2fs -t ext3 -L uboot /dev/sdb1
mkswap /dev/sdb2
mke2fs -t ext4 -L rootfs /dev/sdb3
Remove and reinsert card to mount uboot and rootfs partitions. Let's
assume they get mounted under
/run/media/me/ and the tarballs are at /home/me/
tar -C /run/media/me/rootfs/ -Jxvf
/home/me/rsel6-rootfs-gui-20130927-1.tar.xz
tar -C /run/media/me/rootfs/lib/modules -Jxvf /home/me/f19-modules.tar.xz
tar -C /run/media/me/rootfs/lib/firmware -Jxvf /home/me/f19-firmware.tar.xz
tar -C /run/media/me/uboot/ -Jxvf /home/me/f19-uboot.tar.xz
Now you have to edit /run/media/me/rootfs/etc/fstab
Change / to:
/dev/mmcblk1p3 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
This is because the date at boot is earlier than last run.
Add for swap:
/dev/mmcblk1p2 swap swap defaults,noatime 0 0
To add serial console getty, paste the following lines to build ttyS0.conf:
cat <<EOF>/run/media/me/rootfs/etc/init/ttyS0.conf || exit 1
start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on starting runlevel [016]
respawn
pre-start exec /sbin/securetty ttyS0
exec /sbin/agetty -L /dev/ttyS0 115200 vt102
EOF
Now getty on the first terminal is disabled. By default it starts at 2.
To set to include terminal one this will need to be set in:
/run/media/rgm/rootfs/etc/sysconfig/init
/run/media/rgm/rootfs/etc/init/start-ttys.conf
ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-5]
Last step is to make the card bootable:
/run/media/rgm/uboot/select-board.sh cubieboard2
Umount the card, insert in your Cubieboard, connect monitor, keyboard,
[mouse,] and serial USB and boot!
Login as root with password of password and change your password.
If you don't want to follow all these steps, get the compressed SDcard
image and build the boot card with:
xzcat /home/me/rsel-minimal.img.xz > /dev/sdb; sync
You are now ready to update the base install to current rpms:
yum update redsleeve-release
yum update
Or again, I have a compressed SDcard image as of 08/10/2104 that can be
installed by:
xzcat /home/me/rsel-minimal-21040810.img.xz > /dev/sdb; sync
I don't like an unsecure build and no SSH access. The F19 provided
kernel has SELinux support, so:
yum install openssh-server system-config-securitylevel selinux-policy
rsyslog
run
system-config-securitylevel
to setup your firewall rules.
Reboot to get selinux, iptables, and sshd active or install:
xzcat /home/me/rsel-secure-21040810.img.xz > /dev/sdb; sync
Only SSHD is enabled through the firewall. Your firstboot will create
unique ssh keys.
Lastly, you need to personalize your machine:
hostname foo.bar.com
adduser -c "Me I am" -G wheel me
passwd me
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