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bengtfredh / pinebook-pro-fedora-installer

Unofficial Fedora installer for Pinebook Pro
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Possibility of supporting Fedora Silverblue #20

Open adds68 opened 3 years ago

adds68 commented 3 years ago

Hi thank you for this installer.

I am also wondering if it's possible to adapt this to support Fedora Silverblue?

bengtfredh commented 3 years ago

I have been thinking about it, and because of interest I will look more in to it.

adds68 commented 3 years ago

HI @bengtfredh, that is great news, let me know if i can help out with testing etc. I'd love an immutable OS on the Pinebook Pro!

bengtfredh commented 3 years ago

I have did som initial testing to create a Silverblue image. It is not straight forward. I probably need to set up a repo server to get it to work. Have you tried with Peter Robinson https://nullr0ute.com/2021/05/fedora-on-the-pinebook-pro/ tutorial and used Fedora Silverblue? There is possible it works.

jwillikers commented 3 years ago

Does Silverblue provide a raw image? I think they only provide an installer ISO for Arm.

b- commented 3 years ago

Does Silverblue provide a raw image? I think they only provide an installer ISO for Arm.

I just "burned" an installer ISO of Silverblue Rawhide aarch64 to a microSD and booted that, and it showed a boot screen on the console and proceeded to boot into the installer. So far it seems slow and buggy, but I've gotten this far without even seeing a boot screen before which leads me to believe there's active improvements going on for the PBP on Fedora Workstation and Silverblue Rawhide.

rhg commented 2 years ago

A bit dead, this issue, I know, but it seems reasonably easy to do. I've been using kinoite on mine with btrfs and luks, which is another issue, running fairly stock. The stock 5.16 kernel—fc35—even detects nvme but has no usb-c alt DP and I couldn't figure out how to install the patched kernel. Audio is also laggy and stutters, and btrfs compression at zstd:1 tends to be counterproductive, likely cpu bottleneck, but wifi works great once the firmware package from the copr is installed.

I think part of the issue is that the whole system (ostree, rpm-ostree, fedora) isn't documented together, so maybe it'd be beneficial to pool the info or such, but it's actually usable as a daily once it gets installed.