From: Paul R. Ganci <ganci@nurdog.com>
To: Arm-dev@centos.org
Sent: Saturday, 7 January 2017, 13:51
Subject: [Arm-dev] Centos aarch64 on Raspberry PI 3

I received a Raspberry PI 3 for Christmas with which I am playing. I
would like to install the aarch64 CentOS 1611. However I am finding very
limited information on the web as how to go about doing that. Can
somebody get me started on what I need to do in order to install CentOS
1611? Some initial questions.

1.) Can the aarch64 distribution even be installed on a Raspberry PI 3?

2.) If the answer to question 1 is yes, can somebody give me some
instructions on how to proceed? Links to any quick start or installation
guides would be appreciated.

3.) I have not been able to get X windows to start with the armv7hl
CentOS version already installed. Will Gnome run on Raspberry PI 3 or is
some other desktop graphics suggested?

Thank you for your help getting started.



Hi Paul

I've had success with kraxel's AArch64 Fedora builds for RPi3. It looks like kraxel also has a CentOS AArch64 image for RPi3:

However, judging by the date, this CentOS image will be something like 7.2 - and probably won't support kernel upgrades (but you might be able to upgrade the packages) to get you to 7.3.

best regards,
Richard