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

[Punky Tse]

Hi Johan,

It's a good suggestion, I welcome patches that can improve any parts of 
Voyage Linux.  Only codes can sing ~ ;-)

Regards,
Punky

  16/5/2011 20:36, Johan Adler wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
> 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.
> ---
>
> Johan Adler
> http://nyfiken.org/
>
>
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