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[[File:pandastack2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A "Pandastack" used at Seneca College to build Fedora for ARM. There are eleven stacked Pandaboards in this configuration]]
[[File:pandastack2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A "Pandastack" used at Seneca College to build Fedora for ARM. There are eleven stacked Pandaboards in this configuration]]
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=== Download the image ===
=== Download the image ===
The first step is to download the Fedora 18 Alpha image. The prebuilt image includes everything you will need to boot your system and will require a minimum of 4GB for the root filesystem
The first step is to download the prebuilt Fedora 18 Alpha image which includes everything you will need to boot your system and will require a minimum of 4GB for the root filesystem


* [http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/18-Alpha/Images/armhfp/Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz Pandaboard Image]
* [http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/18-Alpha/Images/armhfp/Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz Pandaboard Image]
Download and verify the checksum:
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/18-Alpha/Images/armhfp/Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-Images-CHECKSUM
sha256sum --check Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-Images-CHECKSUM


===Writing the Image===
===Writing the Image===
=====Linux Users=====
====Linux Users====
You can write the image to an SD card of your choosing but it does have to meet the minimum size requirements noted above (2GB for the serial image, 4GB for the XFCE Desktop). Connect the SD card to your computer and make note of the drive. To write the image to your SD card run the following command, changing the drive to the location of your SD card.  
You can write the image to an SD card of your choosing but it does have to meet the minimum size requirements of 2GB. You can optionally use a USB device for the root file system to improve performance.  
 
For use with SD:
 
  xzcat Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz  > /dev/<path-to-SD-device>
 
For use with SD/USB
 
  xzcat Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz > /dev/<path-to-SD-device>
  xzcat Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz > /dev/<path-to-USB-device>
 
Then use fdisk to delete the boot partition from the USB attached media, and rootfs and swap partitions from the SD card.
 
  fdisk /dev/<path-to-SD-device>
 
Delete partitions two and three (d,3,d,2,w).


For the Serial Image:
  fdisk /dev/<path-to-USB-device>
xzcat Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-mmcblk0.img.xz > /dev/<location-of-your-SD-card>


For the XFCE Desktop:
Delete the first parition only. (d,1,w)
xzcat Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img.xz > /dev/<location-of-your-SD-card>


Once completed run the below command to ensure the entire image is written to the card:
Once completed run the below command to ensure the entire image is written to the card:
  sync
  sync


===Windows Users===
====Windows Users====
* You will need to download [https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer  Win32 Image Writer] as well as a tool to extract the image such as [http://www.7-zip.org 7-Zip].
* You will need to download [https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer  Win32 Image Writer] as well as a tool to extract the image such as [http://www.7-zip.org 7-Zip].
* Once downloaded and installed right click on the disk image and select "7-Zip->Extract files here"
* Once downloaded and installed right click on the disk image and select "7-Zip->Extract files here"
* Launch Win 32 Disk Imager and select the extracted disk image and the SD card you would like to write the files to. Click "Write". Be very careful during this step - all data on the selected drive will be lost!
* Launch Win 32 Disk Imager and select the extracted disk image and the SD card you would like to write the files to. Click "Write". Be very careful during this step - all data on the selected drive will be lost!
===Mac Users===
* Please note that the Default Archive Utility.app will not extract the .xz file. A third party app will have to be used to decompress it. There are multiple options for that
*# There is a Free App available in the App Store called Unarchiver.
*# If [http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ mac homebrew] or [http://www.macports.org macport] is already installed, then the xz utility can be downloaded and installed using one of those.
*# The xz utils .pkg for mac can be downloaded and installed directly from [http://tukaani.org/xz/ xz utils]
* Once the xz utility is installed, open a terminal and make a note of the current drives.
ls /dev/disk?
* Connect the SD card to the mac and make a note of the drive.
* Open Disk Utility and make sure that the card and all the partitions in the card (if any) is unmounted
* In the terminal change to the directory where the .xz file is located
* If xz was installed from the .pkg or macport or homebrew then run the following command
xzcat Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img.xz > /dev/<location-of-the-SD-card>
* If the Unarchiver app from App Store was used then just click and decompress the .xz file and then run the following (may require ''sudo'')
dd if=Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img of=/dev/<location-of-the-SD-card>
* Click and eject the SD card


=Using Fedora on the Pandaboard=
=Using Fedora on the Pandaboard=
Connect the newly created media to your Pandaboard and power on. No further steps are required and your system should boot to a text based log in prompt (serial image) or to a graphical log in (XFCE Desktop image). The default root password is "fedoraarm". This should be changed immediately.
Connect the newly created media to your Pandaboard and power on. No further steps are required.  Your images will boot to graphical.target (runlevel 5) by default.  To change this default behaviour and boot to multi-user.target (runlevel 3) run the following command as root:


==Known Issues==
  ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
* Yum requires the system time be correct for HTTPS to function. If yum updates are not working check your clock.
* The tar.xz rootfs archives do not preserve SELinux information or file capabilities.  If you use these to create your own filesystem image it is recommended that you switch SELinux to use warnings instead of enforcing for first boot, then relabel and reinstall packages that rely upon filesystem capabilities such as glibc-common and ping.
* Images are designed to be written to 2GB (console) or 4GB (xfce) SD cards.  On first boot the partition will be resized to the maximum allowable amount.  On the second boot the filesystem will be resized to fill the expanded partition.  This works for SD cards, SATA Disks, and SSD drives.
* The XFCE Desktop image uses the HDMI port for display, which will work as a dvi-d also.
* The powerVR gpu is currently not available in the omapdrm driver used in Fedora kernel-omap.
* Each time the panda boots a new random MAC address is generated. This is because there is no EEPROM to store the mac address. To have the same eth0 MAC address after reboot the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file needs to have MACADDR= line added.
* [[Common_F17_bugs|Known release issues]]


=Additional Support=
The default root password is "fedora". This should be changed immediately.
There are Fedora ARM users all around the globe - if you need assistance, would like to provide feedback or contribute to Fedora ARM please visit us on the IRC - we can be found in #fedora-arm on Freenode. You can also contact us on the mailing list - arm@lists.fedoraproject.org
==Release Notes==
* This test image includes the updates-testing repository enabled by default.


* Images were composed using tools in Fedora 17 due to continuing work on Fedora 18.


=Extra Info=
* When using the images on the Pandaboard and Trimslice the system will automatically reboot twice by default for the following:
The image file can be loop mounted.
**  repartition the root filesystem on first boot. To prevent this delete the '.rootfs-repartition' flag in '/' or by passing a kernel command line argument of 'nofsresize'.
** The image will automatically be relabeled for SE Linux, this may take some time and will reboot when finished.


* Inflate the archive:
=Additional Support=
unxz Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img.xz
There are Fedora ARM users all around the globe - if you need assistance, would like to provide feedback or contribute to Fedora ARM please visit us on the IRC - we can be found in #fedora-arm on Freenode. You can also contact us on the mailing list - arm@lists.fedoraproject.org
 
* Print the partition table:
fdisk -l Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img
Disk Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img: 3775 MB, 3775922176 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 459 cylinders, total 7374848 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = '''512 bytes'''
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
                                  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img1  *          '''63'''    1044224      522081    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img2        '''1044225'''    7374847    3165311+  83  Linux
 
* The /boot partition starts at sector 63, where each sectore is 512 bytes.
mount -o loop,offset=$(( 63 * 512 )) Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img /mnt/boot
 
* The rootfs partition starts are sector 1,044,225
mount -o loop,offset=$(( 1044255 * 512 )) Fedora-17-armhfp-panda-xfce-mmcblk0.img /mnt/rootfs
 
At this point you may customize the image however you wish.

Revision as of 23:33, 1 November 2012

A "Pandastack" used at Seneca College to build Fedora for ARM. There are eleven stacked Pandaboards in this configuration

Pandaboard

The Pandaboard is one of the most popular ARM devices available and provides users with either a desktop environment or minimal installation (text based).

Technical Specifications

  • 1 GHz Dual core Cortex A9 Processor (OMAP 4430-4460)
  • 1 GB DDR2 RAM
  • HDMI v1.3
  • 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet
  • 802.11 b/g/n WiFi

For more information on the Pandaboard visit their website.

Running Fedora on a Pandaboard

This page will give you detailed instructions for running Fedora 18 Alpha on your Pandaboard. The provided image will provide both serial and the XFCE desktop.

Download the image

The first step is to download the prebuilt Fedora 18 Alpha image which includes everything you will need to boot your system and will require a minimum of 4GB for the root filesystem

Download and verify the checksum:

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/18-Alpha/Images/armhfp/Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-Images-CHECKSUM
sha256sum --check Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-Images-CHECKSUM

Writing the Image

Linux Users

You can write the image to an SD card of your choosing but it does have to meet the minimum size requirements of 2GB. You can optionally use a USB device for the root file system to improve performance.

For use with SD:

 xzcat Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz  > /dev/<path-to-SD-device>

For use with SD/USB

 xzcat Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz > /dev/<path-to-SD-device>
 xzcat Fedora-18-Alpha-armhfp-panda-xfce.img.xz > /dev/<path-to-USB-device>

Then use fdisk to delete the boot partition from the USB attached media, and rootfs and swap partitions from the SD card.

 fdisk /dev/<path-to-SD-device>

Delete partitions two and three (d,3,d,2,w).

 fdisk /dev/<path-to-USB-device>

Delete the first parition only. (d,1,w)

Once completed run the below command to ensure the entire image is written to the card:

sync

Windows Users

  • You will need to download Win32 Image Writer as well as a tool to extract the image such as 7-Zip.
  • Once downloaded and installed right click on the disk image and select "7-Zip->Extract files here"
  • Launch Win 32 Disk Imager and select the extracted disk image and the SD card you would like to write the files to. Click "Write". Be very careful during this step - all data on the selected drive will be lost!

Using Fedora on the Pandaboard

Connect the newly created media to your Pandaboard and power on. No further steps are required. Your images will boot to graphical.target (runlevel 5) by default. To change this default behaviour and boot to multi-user.target (runlevel 3) run the following command as root:

ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

The default root password is "fedora". This should be changed immediately.

Release Notes

  • This test image includes the updates-testing repository enabled by default.
  • Images were composed using tools in Fedora 17 due to continuing work on Fedora 18.
  • When using the images on the Pandaboard and Trimslice the system will automatically reboot twice by default for the following:
    • repartition the root filesystem on first boot. To prevent this delete the '.rootfs-repartition' flag in '/' or by passing a kernel command line argument of 'nofsresize'.
    • The image will automatically be relabeled for SE Linux, this may take some time and will reboot when finished.

Additional Support

There are Fedora ARM users all around the globe - if you need assistance, would like to provide feedback or contribute to Fedora ARM please visit us on the IRC - we can be found in #fedora-arm on Freenode. You can also contact us on the mailing list - arm@lists.fedoraproject.org