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Friendly quick start guide and info

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(This file comes from the kickstart/appliance-creator repo: https://git.rockylinux.org/skip/RockyRpi )
Rocky 8 Raspberry Pi Images
These are preliminary, but they do work, and are full-featured (as far as I know!)
They have been tested on Raspberry Pi 4. If you are interested in testing on your Raspberry Pi 3, please tell us about it in our chat channel: https://chat.rockylinux.org/rocky-linux/channels/altarch
Rocky Linux WILL NOT WORK on a Raspberry Pi 1 or 2. They are 32-bit only, and Rocky Linux only supports arm64 (aarch64).
QUICK START:
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Download the latest image, and write it to your raw microSD memory card (or other boot device).
On Linux systems, simply do something like this: xzcat Rocky_Image_file.raw.xz > /dev/sdX
(where X is the letter of your usb or memory card device, you can use fdisk -l to find which one)
BE CAREFUL, be sure which device you are writing to before you do it! Don't accidentally blow away your laptop/desktop hard drive!
Once your storage device is written to, you should be able to plug it in to a Raspberry Pi and boot!
Default username: rocky
Default password: rockylinux
TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT THE IMAGES:
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- Minimal/base install, with some quality of life packages like vim,nano,bash-completion
- Additional repo that has Rpi kernels/firmware from the excellent raspberrypi2 repo from upstream CentOS
- Script/fix for the wifi on rpi4 (linux-firmware bug)
- Default user "rocky" (member of wheel, can use sudo). Root password disabled by default
- Partition layout: 300 MB /boot , 512 MB swap, ~2800 MB rootfs. Able to fit on a 4 GB or larger sd card
- Everything else should be more or less a standard Rocky aarch64 installation