[Arm-netbook] Skeleton SD image for Mele

[Barry Kauler]

> I'd like to mention that 3,999,998,976 bytes won't fit on any 4GB SD
> card, as my "4GB" card only has 3,956,359,680 bytes.
> It's still possible to use it, but if such a 4GB image is released, I
> have to use fdisk to setup my card, format the partitions, extract the
> different sections in the bin images (u-boot and kernel) and copy the
> rootfs files manually the ext4 partition on the SD card.

My SD card is 4023386112 bytes, which is smaller than the one that Tom
originally uploaded.

So, I thought that some cards might be only multiples of 1000 bytes,
and I chose 3999998976.

I am surprised that yours is even smaller. OK, I will reduce the size
of the image again.

Regards,
Barry Kauler


On 5/3/12, cnxsoft <cnxsoft at cnx-software.com> wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 07:13, Barry Kauler wrote:
>> Guys,
>> I am porting Puppy Linux to run on the Mele A1000, have had
>> preliminary success -- boot time from pressing power-on button to
>> desktop loaded is about 18 seconds!
>>
>> Here is my blog post announcing the first successful bootup:
>> http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02808
>>
>> See other posts for further details:
>> http://bkhome.org/blog/
>>
>> The system that I use to build a Puppy is called "Woof". The way that
>> I have set things up is there is a SD-card skeleton image, already
>> setup to bootup for the target board. All that has to be done is add a
>> kernel and the Linux filesystem -- plus of course the kernel modules
>> and firmware in the filesystem.
>>
>> This seems like the easiest way for Woof to build for any target board
>> (that will boot from SD card).
>>
>> Here is my skeleton image:
>> http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/arm/sd-skeleton-images/
>>
>> This is just the SD image that Tom uploaded, with almost everything
>> taken out. Now compresses to about 7MB.
>>
>> I have also created a PET package (the native package format of Puppy
>> Linux) for the 3.0.8+ kernel, again it is the kernel that Tom
>> uploaded:
>> http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/arm/pet_packages-armv7/linux_kernel-3.0.8-mele-armv7.pet
>>
>> Note, PET packages are tarballs with md5sum appended. You can expand
>> it by doing this:
>> tar -zxf linux_kernel-3.0.8-mele-armv7.pet
>> ...and ignore the error message. it will expand into directory
>> 'linux_kernel-3.0.8-mele-armv7'.
>>
>> I have posted this for general information, but I also have a request...
>>
>> Maybe it is available online somewhere, but I don't recall. It there a
>> compiled 2.6.36 kernel with modules and firmware uploaded anywhere?
>> If so, I would like to download it and create another linux_kernel
>> PET. Then my Woof build system will be able to choose either kernel
>> when building Puppy.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Barry Kauler
>>
>> P.S.
>> Info about Woof:
>> http://bkhome.org/woof/
>> http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewCat=Woof
> I'd like to mention that 3,999,998,976 bytes won't fit on any 4GB SD
> card, as my "4GB" card only has 3,956,359,680 bytes.
> It's still possible to use it, but if such a 4GB image is released, I
> have to use fdisk to setup my card, format the partitions, extract the
> different sections in the bin images (u-boot and kernel) and copy the
> rootfs files manually the ext4 partition on the SD card.
>
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