[Arm-dev] enough packages for a @core install ?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/06/15 15:54, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/06/2015 07:25 PM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
>>>
>>> You'll have to run dracut yourself to build one, as far as I am aware, I'm
>>> used to a raspi which needs to use binary firmware, and the generic kernel
>>> doesn't work as well as the one compiled by the raspi foundation
>>>
>>
>> cc35359,
>> Running dracut manually did the trick. I am able to use CentOS7 stock
>> kernel on my Cubietruck3.
>>
>> Gordan,
>> I am using the kernel that is available in the CentOS Repo
>> vmlinuz-4.0.0-1.el7.armv7hl
>>
>> Ok, so the next task
>> I created a disk image using dd and installed @core and kernel. This
>> works on the Cubietruck3.
>
> Do you mind sharing how you created the disk image and kernel .. did you
> write it to nand or sd card.
>
> I have a cubietruck and have installed Fedora20 .. I have no idea how to
> do anything else with it, but I would like to learn how to take either a
> chroot'ed area or a mounted SD Card and create a bootable image for that.
>
> If I can get something decent working, we'll be showing it at Red Hat
> Summit in a couple of weeks at the CentOS room.

I can't help you with a Cubietruck specifically as I don't own one, but 
if there is an existing dd-and-go bootable image somewhere that you can 
point me at, I could cook you up a RedSleeve EL7 (or EL6 if you prefer) 
image that you could test. :)

Gordan