Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration
On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:55 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 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-ras
>pbian-from-repository-not-using-an-image/
> https://blog.kmp.or.at/build-your-own-raspberry-pi-image/
Interesting, and I'd be very interested in doing exactly that since what
I'm doing with a pi-3b is not (that I know of) being done on a day to
day business by anyone else on this planet. There may be others on the
LCNC (emc-users) mailing list that have played with this, but AFAIK I am
the only one actually making hot swarf with a pi.
> How do you think the Raspberry Pi founadion builds its images?
>
No clue Tomas. The problems I've had haven't given me any time to think
about that.
> Cheers
> -- tomás
Take care Tomas.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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