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. :)
