Support for other images than Raspbian

davidferguson / pibakery

The blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Raspberry Pi

http://www.PiBakery.org

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Support for other images than Raspbian #158

Closed exocode closed 5 years ago

exocode commented 5 years ago

Hi there,

I just started with RPI and PiBakery.

Are you planning to support other images as well? In my case I am interested in:

jessie minibian (https://minibianpi.wordpress.com/download/)
hypriotos (https://blog.hypriot.com/downloads/)

Or is this technically not possible..?

davidferguson commented 5 years ago

It's quite a big challenge technically. PiBakery v2 (which is still in pre-release but can be downloaded if you're brave!) supports chosing your own image, but this will only work for Debian derivatives, such as Raspbian, Raspbian Lite, etc. I've not tested anything else, but Minibian might work - but probably not with all the blocks.

If you want to try it with a different OS and report back here, please do!

I'll be closing this for now because it's not something that I'm planning on implementing.

exocode commented 5 years ago

I am now tried to install the hypriotOS, which is a Raspbian Stretch with Linux Kernel version 4.9.x, which does nothing else than provide a on the go "Docker" image with all it's benefits.

What I found out is, that hypriotOS is using cloud-init / cloud-config to setup everything. I opened a feature request in your repo here: https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery/issues/161