Hi,
Is
cdimage.debian.org the right place for installation images for single board computers?
i.e. raspberry pi and many others. I'm interested in the odroid HC1 for example.
These often need non-free packages included, e.g. the arm firmware blobs signed by the vendor.
I figured out how to install debian on these boards, thus I wonder how to productionize this, i.e. get away from a README with notes and commands to copy&paste to a full integration with Debian (well, at least the parts that allow including non-free firmware blobs due to necessity). Any pointers?
My installation instructions (posted on debian-arm) need no changes to the deb packages, just the typical dance with gparted, mkfs, multistrap, create files like hostname, fstab, /etc/network/interfaces etc., - and add the 4 blob files installed into non-partitioned disk space along with the boot loader.
Is Debian only targetting D-I installs, or is there a place for images with a full installation?
For single board computers the typical and easiest way seems to be writing an image to an SD card on a desktop or even windows machine, and when that boots it is ready to use.
Are the mechanisms open source i.e. can I checkout whatever code, run it locally, perfect it until the images are good, submit the patch for review to get it included into the official debian run mechanism so the results are published and produced along with the rest? Any pointers?
Thanks, Andreas