On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016, akuster wrote: > > > Robert, > > > > On 05/25/2016 03:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > specifically in the context of powerpc systems, are there any > > > suggestions for an image that could be used to boot an older powerpc > > > system, running completely out of ram, and using that as an install > > > utility which would then be responsible for detecting/formatting a > > > hard drive, creating/formatting filesystems, downloading/installing > > > the OS, post-install configuration and so on? > > > > This sounds like an installer MV has and that I have been given approval > > to release (just haven’t had the time to submit it). Its X86 centric ie > > uses grub and support efi > > > I'm incredibly interested in this, do you have a tentative release plan? Regards, Matt > > It boots up from an iso image and runs a ncurses based interface that > > allows you to select HD, create partitions and filesystem types. It will > > install what ever image you built. It creates grub conf and installs it. > > The installer bit is written in python. > > given that it's based on grub, how compatible would it be with a > powerpc target? what i need is *specifically* for powerpc. and what > i'm after can't require a graphical interface, it needs to be > script-based as it will have to run on remote systems. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > >
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