Pre built raspbian image

[anthturner]

I think the best way to do this will be to modify the Raspbian image directly. After poking around with a few ideas, we're probably best off to write a script that:

• Downloads the Raspbian image to the Pi
• Grabs the rootfs partition offset with something like fdisk -l <image file> | grep Linux | awk '{print $2}' and multiply by the units (I think that's 512 for Raspbian's sector sizes in general)
• Grabs the vfat partition offset with fdisk -l <image file> | grep FAT32 | awk '{print $2}', again multiply by 512
• Mounts rootfs with mount -v -o offset=<multiplied rootfs offset from above> -t ext4 <image file> <mountpoint>
• Mounts vfat with mount -v -o offset=<multiplied vfat offset> -t vfat <image file> <mountpoint>/boot
• Copies the bootstrapper to the /boot
• Does chroot jail setups... mount --rbind /dev <mountpoint>/dev, mount -t proc none <mountpoint>/proc, mount -o bind /sys <mountpoint>/sys
• Chroots into the mountpoint
• Runs the bootstrapper (which runs the installer)
• sync; sync
• Unmount vfat, then rootfs

The resulting image should be completely ready to go. (All of this is untested)

[anthturner]

I made a few changes to the mounting strategy but there is a beta image rolling tool in the devops folder that takes a Raspbian image and the git repository root as arguments, and builds the entire SAR system in a chroot environment against the image. Once this has been proven out for a couple writes, we should be good to go.

[anthturner]

Last item on this is to upload a completed initial release image to the GitHub Releases page. @axis7818 Can you handle doing this when you're happy with the stability?

[aligrt]

Pre built raspbian image ready for download??? or expected release date???? waiting for your response