Chris Tyler wrote:
> *since we don't seem to support kickstart, and we don't
have an
> installer, you can really only import in an existing image. But hey it
> is better then what we had!
The concept of an "installer" in ARM land is pretty limited. There is a
graphical installer for Sheeva/Guruplugs, but it's primarily a tool for
installing a kernel and prebuilt rootfs (it would be hard to package for
Fedora, too, since it contains an entire prebuilt Linux image for use
during bootstrapping, and building that from source would be Big).
Sheeva can get a kernel image to boot via TFTP, so making an "installer"
kickstart a base image shouldn't be too difficult. the problem is
booting the installer in the first place.
Having said that - it would be much, much more efficient if the
Fedora/RH installer installed the minimum build from a single tar ball
(i.e. the rootfs). The extra disk I/O required by maintaining the RPM
database at every step really slows things down on cheap flash, not to
mention that it wastes an awful lot of life of a SD/CF card with all
those small writes. Installing a gig of packages onto an SD card on the
Sheeva can take literally hours. The only way I have managed to make
this sort of thing bearable is by LD_PRELOAD=libeatmydata.so before I
run yum.
Gordan