Hi,
As I begin to explore the IoT working group and the Getting Started Guide,
the first gap I am finding is a section for "Obtaining images".
Setting up a virtual machine starts (and pretty much ends) with decompress
[filename].raw.xz
Setting up a physical device does have some references to using (but not
obtaining) Fedora-IoT-28-<BUILD ID> and Fedora-Rawhide.xz files.
So I started looking for the images.
I ended up with downloads from
iot.stg.fedoraproject.org but with no
CHECSUM files being found for verification.
It looks to me like these will eventually belong at
alt.fedoraproject.org
or
arm.fedoraproject.org but I have not yet determined the differences in
those collections of aarch64 options. I was expecting to find them at
arm.fedoraproject.org based on my past experiments with my Pi.
I am going to need a bit of help on what are the correct pointers to add to
an Obtaining images section of the getting started guide.
Here are my notes on what pages show what information and where I found
dead links:
From the
getfedora.org page, at the bottom I do see
Fedora ARM ->
https://arm.fedoraproject.org/
Alternative Downloads -> Alternate Architectures ->
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt
Both pages have Server, Minimal, and Workstation but then they begin to
differ.
Neither has anything labeled as IoT, however, the verify page for minimal
https://arm.fedoraproject.org/verify.html
In the text, lists a gpg --verify-files key for IOT
Non of the -CHECKSUM files from this site include a Fedora-IoT image.
If I navigate to the Alt verify page at
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/en/verify.html
Several of these links to CHECKSUM files cannot find the files. For example:
"The requested URL
/en/static/checksums/Fedora-Spins-29-1.2-aarch64-CHECKSUM was not found on
this server."
Next I found
https://iot.stg.fedoraproject.org/
I downloaded the raw image (and have since gotten it setup in a virtual
machine)
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/iot/29/IoT/x86_64/images/Fedora-IoT-...
The verify page from this site looks like a copy of the arm site verify
page but only the page itself was copied over to the stg site. The links to
the CHECKSUM files are all "not found" and appear to be the same base name
as those used from the ARM site. Again, with no mentions of any Fedora-IoT
named files.
Comments welcome!
-Susan
--
Susan Lauber, (CCAH, RHCX, RHCA, RHCSS, RHCVA, CISSP)
Lauber System Solutions, Inc.
http://www.laubersolutions.com
gpg: 15AC F794 A3D9 64D1 D9CE 4C26 EFC3 11C2 BFA1 0974