On 07/26/2017 05:10 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 07/25/2017 09:18 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

The OP has this working.  He wants aarch64 which is not working yet, it
seems according to the aarch64 maintainer.  

Our aarch64 distro is built to install on machines that support
uefi/grub2.  It is not really designed to run on uboot machines.  People
have gotten it working on uboot setups, but each machine is unique to
install and maintain that way.  With 4 or less GB of installed RAM, it
is not worth the effort (IMHO) to try to make the aarch64 version run.

I am assuming you are saying that aarch64 will not work on a IPi3 unless someone does the uboot work?

Not that I have any interest in ANY RPi.


He also wants LDXE for the

GUI.  This is not built into the Minimal image.  You have to add it. 
Somehow.


LXDE is not built by Fedora in EPEL, so it has never been built at all
for CentOS by the CentOS team (that I know of).  There is xfce (as I
said before), but I am not sure how well even that works.  Basically,
CentOS for ARM32 is not really designed to run in Workstation, or even
GUI, mode.  It is basically a CLI implementation for server type
services .. although we strive to get as many packages, both from the
CentOS-7 repo and EPEL 7 repo, as possible to build.

There has always been an LXDE build for Fedora-armhfp, see:

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/Spins/armhfp/images/

And earlier releases, but not for Fedora-26?

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/26/Spins/armhfp/images/

I see LXDE for the F27 beta on:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?start=50&state=all&view=tree&method=appliance&order=-id

But I don't see any successful builds (at least a few days back), but there are builds for Xfce there.

I tried LXDE during the F24 beta and did not like it.  I have been on Xfce since F21-arm (or was it the special F18 build?  Old history, anyway).  I use Xfce on my x64 notebook and get much longer battery usage than I did with Gnome!

I should try putting Xfce on one of my Cubies with Centos7 just for the 'exercise'; won't be for a few weeks, as I have a LOT of post-IETF work.  Just ask Paul Wouter, he ALSO has a fair bit of post IETF work...

The only Centos7 equiv that I have with a GUI is my ClearOS7 server with Xfce.  It is on an Intel Nano platform...

Bob



On 07/25/2017 10:11 AM, Erix wrote:

Hi,

/I'm not sure what you exactly looking for.. CentOS image for ARM ?/
you can try this: 
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.3.1611/isos/armhfp/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1611-RaspberryPi3.img.xz

Hope it helps you
Bye for now
Erix

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    On 07/20/2017 06:03 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
    > On 07/19/2017 10:30 AM, Markus McLaughlin wrote:
    >> HELP!  I want to install CentOS 7 with LXDE on my Raspberry Pi
    3...  How
    >> do I go about doing so?
    >>
    > I don't think there is an LXDE for CentOS in any of the repos
    (EPEL or
    > base CentOS), even for x86_64.
    >
    > There MAY be enough xfce to get that working on CentOS 7.
    Actually I have it running on a ClearOS7 system.  Took a it to get it
    together.   I remembered wrong; we worked from Fedora to get the rpms.
    There are a few things missing, and I really need to file a bug report
    about them.  I was away when I first replied.  Back now.


    > I am not sure how easy it is to get aarch64 on a PI3, but the base
    > Fedora EPEL actually runs on there.  EPEL (and therefore xfce
    support)
    > would be much better and more updated from there than what we
    are trying
    > to do for arm32.






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