On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a u-sd, so far, so good... > so you get that crap regardless and must physically remove it before a That is not true: Raspbian, for example, has a "normal" Debian repo at https://archive.raspbian.org. With debootstap, schroot and Qemu you can build a customized Raspbian system. The firmware (i.e. the binary stuff needed for the VideoCore IV "co"-processor plus the kernel images can also be had at https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git. With all that you can build a viable image to "burn" on an SD card, all from the confort of your powerful desktop machine. I know because I've done it. My writeup is still pretty incomplete, not yet fit for publishing, but others have written about it: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/78232/install-base-raspbian-from-repository-not-using-an-image/ https://blog.kmp.or.at/build-your-own-raspberry-pi-image/ How do you think the Raspberry Pi founadion builds its images? Cheers -- tomás
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