Yes I understand the additional effort it might take.
Looks like using anaconda to install a custom image may be what I need
to look into. Creating the custom image and such like is new to me, I
will try and find the appropriate docs but a pointer to get me started
in the docs may be useful.
Regards
Michael Whapples
On 18/11/2020 08:30, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 8:22 AM Michael Whapples
> <contact(a)ashotinthedark.online> wrote:
>> I have looked through the source of the arm-image-installer and now
>> understand exactly what it is doing and yes I see how it really is not
>> suited to setting the FS, the image determines that.
>>
>>
>> BTRFS versions of the minimal images would be nice but I guess not
>> essential as I have managed until now without BTRFS on my ARM devices.
> Well having two minimal images requires twice the QA resources and
> I've had explicit requests for something to remain ext4 as it's more
> widely available and known at this time and it eases testing for some
> users/usecases as it's well known/tested.
>
> You can use anaconda to install your own custom image for whatever you
> like as well.
>
>> If doing BTRFS images for none-desktop images, then minimal is probably
>> enough as one can build up whatever they want from that.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Michael Whapples
>>
>> On 14/11/2020 21:44, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 4:43 PM Michael Whapples
>>> <contact(a)ashotinthedark.online> wrote:
>>>> Neal and Matthew thanks for clarifying that. Yes the various
>>>> announcements do say desktop editions, the significance of that must
>>>> have just passed me by.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> would be nice if the ARM image installer would allow selecting the FS
>>>> when writing the image. Not sure how much work that would be to support.
>>>>
>>> Unfortunately, that would be very hard. If it was desired, *maybe* we
>>> could produce alternate Btrfs-based versions for the non-desktop
>>> variants...
>>>
>>>
>>>
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