[fedora-arm] Re: Custom image from kickstart

On 04/27/2018 08:19 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Peter
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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 !)


By the way, is there documentation describing all stuffs need to
kickstart (u-boot for example) and how to setup everything

on an external flash drive ? (it is easy to move lvm from sd to ssd for
example)

Fox

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