From 5bbbd6f6b6d263922ea415dbba0c1bc3436a32bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skip Grube Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:40:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Adding readme file for web image repo Friendly quick start guide and info -Skip G. --- readme.image | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 readme.image diff --git a/readme.image b/readme.image new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e210390 --- /dev/null +++ b/readme.image @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +(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: +#################################################### +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: +################################################### +- 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 + + + +