after adding grub OK: 129 MiB in 68 packages
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Muayyad AlSadi <als...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
