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mk01 · 13th Dec, 2013, 10:02 AM

@Killerbee,

yes the system works - don't be surprised. you will get some minor error msgs during updates though.

in general, ext4 is faster. btrfs wasn't picked up for speed.
(and yes, specially lib updates will struggle)

((if interested https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian-package-initramfs/issues/1#issuecomment-15011914 ))

(10th Dec, 2013 01:16 AM)Killerbee Wrote: My next challenge is to modify the script of Klaus Maria Pfeiffer found here to make it possible to create a xbian image automatically directly from Ubuntu.

this is still a bit complication - you need ubuntu (or debian). if you wan't to make this install option go real, do it around some kind of minimized linux image with debootstrap running on it able to perform this steps to the card it was booted from. it could run like this:

1 - 1st partition -> 64mb in size holding kernel and initramfs
2 - initramfs booted will prepare 2nd partition and run 1st stage of debootstrap (downloading packages according of users choice)
3 - reboot into 2nd partition for 2nd stage of debootstrap.

it's the same with the small difference that you ubuntu is the kernel.img and initramfs on fat partition to boot.
just to see it how it works you can copy 1:1 your fresh raspbian install, replace /var with tmpfs, remove all packages providing support for locales, man, info, timezones, *i18n*, …you could end around 100mb. which will compress under 64mb. its not effective, but it is quick to build.

or take XBians initramfs. just tried with debootstrap binary and libs with gzipped size of 7mb. you have network, fs and part utils. you don't need more.

@Killerbee

btw: very nice, I'm proud of you Smile