Hey everyone, I hope all is going well. I just wanted to post an update on my progress with the "easy-to-use" Fedora Installer script. I decided to write it in Python (2 & 3 compatible) using QT4 GUI API. I also realized that Windows isn't able to read/write EXT partitions so the format being used for install images are block-level device copies (i.e. a raw dd image). We can use Chris's idea of expanding the root FS partition size on first-boot so the user is able to re-gain any space left. The script is able to read from a text file online which can then point to various dd image links available for download so the script doesn't need to be updated constantly. I'm really trying hard to get this out quickly and working so that it can be tested before the launch of the Raspberry Pi allowing users to easily create bootable cards.
The last parts I have to "hook-up" are the actual commands to dd the data onto the device. I have everything setup inside the script to do so, I'm just working out how to get information from the dd command back into the script for the progress bar and text status. I find it funny that the author of dd.exe for Windows at least included an option switch to make it print the program's progress report to stdout where as the Linux dd command requires one to send a "USR1 signal" to the process itself to spill some info. Anyway, it's almost a working script (assuming the image files work) and I plan to test it fully on Tuesday when I'm at Work. In the mean time, here are some screenshots below and a link to the source: http://hongkong.proximity.on.ca/~jchiappetta/faii-nix.png http://hongkong.proximity.on.ca/~jchiappetta/faii-win.png http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=arm.git;a=tree;f=faii;h=31398dc7342197f088a229b0771cf9e717f12b1f;hb=HEAD http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=arm.git;a=snapshot;h=31398dc7342197f088a229b0771cf9e717f12b1f;sf=tgz (.tgz) Thanks for your time, Jon Chiappetta
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