Archlinuxarm-15-09-2012.img by ME

[MattScherbatsky]

Hello everybody.
The official img is too old and I decided to create a new img updated and error free (too much manual intervention).

Changelog:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'u')pdated at 15/09/2012
240Mb at CPU default at boot (start.elf)
no problem with glibc and filesystem updates.

[Gtastic]

Downloading just now. Will let you know how I get on.

[Gtastic]

img file copied to 16Gb card fine.
Boots ok, got IP address and can ssh in with root.
`Pacman -Syu` ran ok and only had 1 pkg to update.
`ls -l /` shows /lib as a symlink pointing to usr/lib.

I am about to add some user accounts and start installing some software but so far so good. Thanks!

[xenoxaos]

Looks like you forgot to clean up a little bit after you got everything updated....it's about 3.5x larger than the image i was sharing a bit ago. Also, pepedog has a new image that should be getting pushed out soonish.

I would also recommend anyone that downloads this....please delete the pregenerated ssh keys. It can make your system less secure. (anyone that downloads this will have your private keys)

[pepedog]

@MattScherbatsky
here are a few tips to clean up
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -Scc (answer y to both)
pacman -Syy
Power down and put in another machine, mount both partitions
rm -r /path-to-mount-of-part-2/root/*
rm /path-to-mount-of-part-2/etc/ssh/ssh_host*
rm -r /path-to-mount-of-part-2/var/log/*
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path-to-mount-of-part-2/fillfile
The fillfile will fill partition spare space with zero, which compresses good
sync
rm /path-to-mount-of-part-2/fillfile
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path-to-mount-of-part-1/fillfile
sync
rm /path-to-mount-of-part-1/fillfile
sync
umount both partitions
Now you are good to dd
To get best zip compression
zip -9 rootfs.zip rootfs.img
and get an md5 or sha sum some download can be verified')
Some people tar data, zero card, and restore data
As @xenoxaos said, image is soon
Normally of a Sunday I become a male stripper, performing in front of 100's of sex starved women, I put this off just to create the image

[xenoxaos]

/me waves a £5 note at pepedog.

[xenoxaos]

I also install and run localepurge when I make a rootfs image. It can save ~50M of uncompressed space. So when you're dealing with embedded systems...that can be a lot.

[pepedog]

Hmm, must try localepurge

[xenoxaos]

It's in our repo...put it there when I was doing a lot of nand installs. btw, xz compression can get a rpi rootfs to ~100M

[pepedog]

But....
a lot of people do this from Windows