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On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:20:17 -0700
Brendan Conoboy <blc(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/30/2012 05:35 PM, "Andy Green (林安廸)" wrote:
> It's great that you're doing this, but I don't think dding
> partition + filesystems is a good idea.
It's definitely tricky to get right. The number of possible
configurations makes it tricky to do an efficient selection of
images. I may end up doing a combination tegra+omap+etc image to cut
down the waste.
> We found that various "8GB" SD cards have different absolute
> numbers of available sectors, it can lead to eventual filesystem
> corruption if your image is slightly large than someone else's card.
Well, the image is being created out of a sparse file with 8000
1048576 byte sectors. If that proves too many it would be little
trouble to drop it down to 7900 or something. We'll see how it goes
in practice.
i think we should only make the image 2 gb using domething like "dd
if=/dev/zero of/raw/disk bs=1M count=2048" cound could be 2000 also
then it should work everywhere.
> If someone's going to try this they're probably OK
running fdisk and
> using tarballs.
the idea is to get to a point where its simple to deploy lower the
barrier of entry.
Yeah, the uboot enabled kernel tarball will probably be the most
universally useful. I personally had plenty of trouble marking
working uboot files so leveraging David Marlin's work on grubby will
hopefully spare others that trouble. Meanwhile, a number of people
have asked for images they can dd, so I'm trying to fulfill both
needs.
> I've been using Peter's F17 alpha1 image and following progress with
> updates, it's been very good. It's stuck as of last week with
> gnome-shell problems though. But generally package completeness has
> been increasing really well last few weeks, great job.
What are the gnome-shell problems? Perhaps they're well known but
I'm not acquainted with them. If we're missing a package that will
help things out let me know and I'll put it in the next snapshot.
there is gnome 3.4.0 in testing on primary now there is a change it
will get pushed to stable for beta on monday if not its probably 2
weeks away. What we need to do is come up with a set of F17 beta
deliverables and work really hard in the next 2 weeks to deliver a F17
Beta.
Dennis
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