[Arm-dev] Centos aarch64 on Raspberry PI 3

Sun Jan 8 04:11:47 UTC 2017
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

I thought the RPi3 is 32bit, not 64?

See https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32

For what is working with RPi3

and http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/

to get the image.

On 01/07/2017 02:51 PM, Paul R. Ganci wrote:
> 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.
>