[Arm-dev] Centos aarch64 on Raspberry PI 3

[Richard Henwood]

From: Paul R. Ganci <ganci at nurdog.com>
 To: Arm-dev at 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:https://www.kraxel.org/repos/rpi2/images/
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
   
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