Re: Fedora 8/ARM available

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:33:31 +0100
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh wantstofly org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
> 
> The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> little endian.  The majority of the important and frequently used
> Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
> 
> The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
> 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
> 
> The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
> prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
> into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
> endian mode.  Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
> which is provided in the filesystem.
> 
> A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
> 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
> 
> There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
> 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
> 
> Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
> you run into so that we can fix them.

How long until you have instructions on installing Fedora on the
n800/n810? :)

josh