[Voyage-linux] Current multistep installation vs. downloadable image

[Johan Adler]

Searching for more information I am now reading the raw text files that must
once have been part of a wiki.

The file http://wiki.voyage.hk/feature_request.txt contains, among much
else, this fragment:

Please add dd/physdiskwrite-ready images for alix boards to the download
> sections using the default settings of the voyage-install script. Different
> disk sizes would be nice too, e.g. 512MB, 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. Compressed
> images turn out to be 30MB-40MB.
> This would make it a lot easier for many people getting the greatest linux
> for these boards up and running. Especially for people running Windows on
> their PC.


I understand that current scripts are not made for this, but I think it
might be rather easy to solve, at least if the setup is done from Linux.

Make an image with the default system, whatever that is, an image that can
be transferred to a CF or other medium. Mount this medium, run the slightly
modified setup script that will do the same changes but directly inside the
(soon to be) bootable flash medium.

The scripts would no longer have to check the CF, ask for a mount point,
partition or format it* (and maybe I could get to choose the filesystem I
want, i.e. ext4 without journal instead of ext2)*, or copy files from one
place to another.

The scripts would, as now, set the host name, active network interfaces,
etc. If grub settings need to be changed it should be possible to run
update-grub as usual.

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About ext4: I read somewhere that ext4 is recommended over ext2 for flash
devices too.

I use 'mkfs.ext4 -L whatever /dev/sdx1 && tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 -O ^has_journal
-o noatime' to create the root fs on the CF, and I am not too happy about
Voyage scripts complaining that it is not ext2 and insisting on reformatting
it.
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Johan Adler
http://nyfiken.org/
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