I've done the following so far since I'm considering very minimal installation suitable for appliance, I considered fedora's busybox, but in that case I would need to create a statically linked ostree
as I mentioned I'm not doing this to be for production server nor a workstation I tried to start with alpine linux, but they don't provide qcow2 images, so I run mkdir alpine-root docker run --rm -ti --name a1 -v `pwd`/alpine-root:/data/ alpine /bin/sh and inside the container I run apk --arch x86_64 -X http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/ -X http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/ -U --allow-untrusted --root /data --initdb add alpine-base ostree linux-virtgrsec the end result was OK: 120 MiB in 67 packages compared to 6 MB without ostree and kernel I guess linux-virtgrsec is the smallest kernel they have I'm not sure if 120MB for an embedded appliance is good or bad. and this image does not have a bootloader yet but ostree seems to be working! now I have a directory /alpine-root having a working ostree and a kernel what's next? add a bootloader and make that a qcow2 and make an ostree out of it references https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_Alpine_Linux On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Trishna Guha <trishnaguh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Dusty Mabe <du...@dustymabe.com> wrote: > > So trishna just put out some content recently on how to build an > > atomic host. While it's not the official way we do it, this [1] > > might be useful to you. > > [1] https://fedoramagazine.org/automate-building-fedora-atomic/ > > I would suggest directly to look at the repository [0] now. > It does the setup like it does in the magazine article. > In additional you can compose OSTree with customized packages for the > Atomic host. > > [0] https://github.com/trishnaguha/build-atomic-host > > -- > Regards, > Trishna Guha > > trishnaguh...@gmail.com > trishnag.wordpress.com >
