Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-10 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 01/09/2014 07:19 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I'd prefer: download f21-xfce.img download fedora-arm-bbb.img write fedora-arm-bbb.img to same block device partprobe write f21-xfce.img to partition 3 of block device because: (a) the generic Fedora image just becomes a simple root

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-10 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 01/09/2014 07:41 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Without intending any disrespect I don't think that you are the typical user we want to optimize this for. More and more novice users are starting to play around with arm boards (which will hopefully make them non novices eventually) and I think we

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-10 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 01/09/2014 10:02 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: This all needs to be wrapped in a tool to do the image customisation. we had a good start to it previously. We need someone interested to pick it up and run with it. the handling of setting up the card needs to happen for the user. Sure, a tool to

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-10 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/10/2014 05:35 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 01/09/2014 07:41 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Without intending any disrespect I don't think that you are the typical user we want to optimize this for. More and more novice users are starting to play around with arm boards (which will

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:16:55PM -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: [...] The idea seems uncontroversial to me. Of the two options given, I'd prefer: Alternately: download f21-xfce.img download fedora-arm-bbb.img write fedora-arm-bbb.img to same block device partprobe write f21-xfce.img to

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-09 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, Sorry for jumping in at them middle of the thread, I skimmed over it, without realizing that this is something I'm very much interested in. As you probably have seen I plan to add official allwinner support to F-21: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport I personally

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-09 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, Sorry for jumping in at them middle of the thread, I skimmed over it, without realizing that this is something I'm very much interested in. As you probably have seen I plan to add official allwinner support to F-21: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport I personally

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:30:31PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Sorry for jumping in at them middle of the thread, I skimmed over it, without realizing that this is something I'm very much interested in. As you probably have seen I plan to add official allwinner support to F-21:

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-09 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/09/2014 04:37 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:30:31PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Sorry for jumping in at them middle of the thread, I skimmed over it, without realizing that this is something I'm very much interested in. As you probably have seen I plan to

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-09 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:16:55 -0800 Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com escribió: Hi everybody, There are two significant issues with the disk images in F20 that I would like to address in F21: 1. Duplicate disk images with and without a VFAT

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-09 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/09/2014 07:02 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:16:55 -0800 Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com escribió: Hi everybody, There are two significant issues with the disk images in F20 that I would like to address in F21: 1.

[fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
Hi everybody, There are two significant issues with the disk images in F20 that I would like to address in F21: 1. Duplicate disk images with and without a VFAT partition. This doubles QA load and can confuse end users. 2. Unlike x86 spins, images aren't always ready to be used after

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-08 Thread Gordan Bobic
Still no chance of an actual installer any time soon, then? On 01/08/2014 10:16 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: Hi everybody, There are two significant issues with the disk images in F20 that I would like to address in F21: 1. Duplicate disk images with and without a VFAT partition. This doubles

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 01/08/2014 02:32 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Still no chance of an actual installer any time soon, then? Unrelated topic. This is just about disk images, similar to livecd. -- Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / b...@redhat.com ___ arm mailing list

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-08 Thread Patrick Noffke
On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 02:16:55 PM Brendan Conoboy wrote: Hi everybody, There are two significant issues with the disk images in F20 that I would like to address in F21: 1. Duplicate disk images with and without a VFAT partition. This doubles QA load and can confuse end users.

Re: [fedora-arm] F21 disk image idea

2014-01-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 01/08/2014 03:14 PM, Patrick Noffke wrote: Sorry for my ignorance, but why do you need to create images with VFAT partitions? Some vendor firmware only supports VFAT, so we either include a VFAT partition or commit to providing our own firmware for any device we want to support. This