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