Right, copied the images to the primary site, updated and wikified the 
article:

http://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/Install_Rasperry_Pi

Thanks again for your contributions, John, they are very appreciated.

Gordan

On 09/06/2012 12:33, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Thanks John. Much appreciated.
>
> I'm downloading and re-compressing them with xz right now.
>
> Quick question - what did you add to the basic rootfs compared to the
> original one? 397MB is a lot bigger than the previous version.
>
> Also you might want to up the dd block size in your instructions to 4MB
> or even 8MB. Most SD cards these days are crap and have huge erase block
> sizes in the 4-8MB range, so it might save a few extra erase cycles.
>
> Gordan
>
> On 09/06/2012 12:12, John Cooper wrote:
>> The 'Redsleeve on Raspberry Pi' images have now been split into two
>> versions at Gordan's suggestion,
>> one for the basic Command Line version and one with a basic Desktop
>> version.
>>
>> Details are covered in the write up here:
>> http://opensource.wrenhill.com/?p=123
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 08/06/12 11:50, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> On 06/08/2012 11:43 AM, John Cooper wrote:
>>>> Hi Gordan,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I agree, and for myself I'm not too keen on a desktop version.
>>>> But I was trying to mirror the other basic Raspberry Pi images which
>>>> all
>>>> tend to offer desktops?
>>>>
>>>> It just gives the opportunity to get lots of people using RedSleeve
>>>> Linux who might not be drawn in to a CLI only image.
>>>
>>> OK, that sounds reasonable. How about 2 images - one with the desktop
>>> one without, but otherwise the same? That way both the server and the
>>> desktop bases are covered.
>>>
>>>> Because we don't have groupinstalls available the desktop upgrade
>>>> gets a
>>>> bit more involved.
>>>
>>> This is another very good point - I will put it on my todo list to get
>>> the package groups added to the yum manifests.
>>>
>>>> Happy to also keep a minimal separate CLI only release if you think
>>>> that's the way forward.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe a raspi-redsleeve-cli and a raspi-redsleeve-desktop image - let
>>>> the users decide?
>>> >
>>>> Let me know if that's OK and I'll spin off another version.
>>>
>>> Sounds excellent, please do. I should have finished reading the email
>>> before I started responding. :)

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