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

[Gordan Bobic]

On 12/06/15 02:29, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 11:44 AM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
>>> Do you mind sharing how you created the disk image and kernel .. did you
>>   > write it to nand or sd card.
>>
>> I generated it using the RootFS Build Factory I am developing along with
>> Ian for GSoC.
>> The repositories used are the ones created by Fabian
>> http://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/c7-buildroot/
>> http://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/c7-pass-1/
>> http://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/comps/
>>
>> The development code is on Github. You can try if it works for you. I
>> have generated the images on Fedora 21 ARM running on the Cubietruck.
>> I've tested generating images for Raspberry Pi 2 and Cubietruck. There
>> is a provision in the RootFS Build Factory to extend support for boards
>> using simple Bash scripts. But I'll not get into the details of that
>> right now.
>>
>> The generated image has to be written to a microSD card using dd/dcfldd
>> The README.md on github has everything to get you started.
>>
>> https://github.com/mndar/rbf
>
> I used RBF to generate a CentOS-7 image for the cubietruck and it works.
>   Mandar, this is going to be a great GSoC project .. I am impressed with
> RBF so far !!!
>
> I did the build using this Fedora 20 image from dl.cubieboard.org in the
> nand:
>
> http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/fedora/ct-fedora20-lxde-v2/
>
> File: fedora20-nand-lxde-vga.img.gz in the above link.
>
> My generated image is 4 GB is size.  1GB for swap, 2 GB for root
> partition, 500MB for /boot

Is swapping onto cheap SD card really a viable option? Would someting 
like zram be of more practical use?

Gordan