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Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

thanks all I dont even care about x or desktop, I just want a redhat style server on my phone...btw I did try the command to rebuild rpm and it did not work...again, I will take it from the top documenting my steps.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

I had issues with yum, I also had to change my repos.
you need to edit your fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo to use different repositories. the standard ones were dead for me.

Im on the train now but will post them when I get home.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

see if everyone chips in there 2 cents...perhaps the knowledge could be turned into easy fedora?!?!?

btw if I buy an sd card then can I setup fedora as a dual boot and still retain the option of chrooting into it from maemo? if so I will go out today and buy an 8gb sd card...

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Quote:

Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 783422)

Yes.

Chroot will work from a bootable rootfs.

Booting does not necessarily work from a chroot-specific image though.

(case in point: easy-debians rootfs is not a complete rootfs of debian, just what you need to get a stable chroot, so booting wouldn't work. OTOH: Mer, and other full bootable debians, were a full rootfs that you could boot too, and also chroot into if you wanted.)

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Edit your fedora.repo to look like this
You may as well delete the file and remake it it and just copy this into it.

Code:

[fedora]

name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch

#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch

baseurl=ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/arm/os/Packages/

enabled=1

metadata_expire=7d

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch



[fedora-source]

name=Fedora $releasever - Source

failovermethod=priority

baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/

#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

metadata_expire=7d

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-primary



[fedora-arm-source]

name=Fedora ARM $releasever - Source

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

metadata_expire=7d

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

And the same goes for your fedora-updates.repo

Code:

[updates]

name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates

#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch

baseurl=ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/arm/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch



[updates-source]

name=Fedora $releasever - Updates Source

failovermethod=priority

#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/

mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch



[updates-arm-source]

name=Fedora ARM $releasever - Updates Source

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

This should provide you with a working yum, after you rebuild the database.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

ok stage one: downloaded via jebber link
extracted into /home/user/MyDocs/Fedora.

got lots of "cannot change file to uid gid 0" (or something to that effect) which cannot be good during the 1 1/2 hour extract. did a simple /usr/sbin/chroot and told not permitted. Will now start reading jebber info.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Quote:

Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 784478)

You cant use /home/user/MyDocs

That's a FAT formatted filesystem (Unless you've changed it yourself) and doesn't support several of the necessary modes (executables, permissions) and file-types (soft links) required by a rootfs.

You need to extract that to an ext3 formatted area somewhere.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

ok it's sd card time...thanks

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Quote:

anyone else want "easy fedora"

Me, me :D
RPM's aren't my thing, but why the hell not :) I love to have many options.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Ok.. Maybe I am now up for this idea... Ignore my first post!
LETS DO IT!
Has anyone created a 2GB ext3 loop back?

(Taken and adapted from Meego)

Creating a loopback image from a tarball

Code:

Create 2GB image file 

dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/user/MyDocs/fedora-image bs=1024 count=2097152



Create filesystem on image file 

mkfs.ext3 /home/user/MyDocs/fedora-image



Create mount point and loopback mount the image 

export FEDORA_ROOT="/mnt/fedora_root"

mkdir $FEDORA_ROOT

mount -o loop /home/user/MyDocs/fedora-image $FEDORA_ROOT

Code:

apt-get install tar-gnu



gtar -tzf <fedora-image>



gtar -xzf <fedora-image> -C $FEDORA_ROOT



umount $FEDORA_ROOT

None of the above may actually work. It's just an idea, Qole would be the best for this....

But!! I want to help! FEDORA!