Arch Linux live USB for B3 (with Linux 3.17.1) released
Posted: 26 Oct 2014, 14:11
Hello,
as I've had quite a few people email me requesting this, I've put together a live-USB image of Arch Linux for the B3 on GitHub (here). It uses a 'vanilla' version of the 3.17.1 kernel, with the systemd essentials turned on. As before, the necessary code to temporarily switch off the L2 cache during boot has been prepended, and the kirkwood-b3 device tree blob appended - so it should work on any 'stock' B3.
You can burn the supplied image to a USB key (>=4GB), then boot your B3 from it, without affecting any installed system on your B3's hard drive. You can even boot a diskless B3! No soldering, compilation or U-Boot flashing is required.
It's a full (persistent) armv5te Arch Linux system, based on the archlinuxarm.org 3 Oct 2014 kirkwood image, so you can run pacman operations (Arch Linux's equivalent of apt-get) etc. immediately.
Full instructions are provided on the GitHub page (including how to specify initial network settings, so you can ssh in once booted, and how to install Arch Linux on your B3's internal hard drive too, in case you want to do that).
Let me know how you get on! I don't use Arch much (Gentoo's my distro, as you may have guessed ^-^) so if you find any snafus in there, pls ping me an email, or append to this thread, so I can get a chance to fix them.
best,
sakaki
as I've had quite a few people email me requesting this, I've put together a live-USB image of Arch Linux for the B3 on GitHub (here). It uses a 'vanilla' version of the 3.17.1 kernel, with the systemd essentials turned on. As before, the necessary code to temporarily switch off the L2 cache during boot has been prepended, and the kirkwood-b3 device tree blob appended - so it should work on any 'stock' B3.
You can burn the supplied image to a USB key (>=4GB), then boot your B3 from it, without affecting any installed system on your B3's hard drive. You can even boot a diskless B3! No soldering, compilation or U-Boot flashing is required.
It's a full (persistent) armv5te Arch Linux system, based on the archlinuxarm.org 3 Oct 2014 kirkwood image, so you can run pacman operations (Arch Linux's equivalent of apt-get) etc. immediately.
Full instructions are provided on the GitHub page (including how to specify initial network settings, so you can ssh in once booted, and how to install Arch Linux on your B3's internal hard drive too, in case you want to do that).
Let me know how you get on! I don't use Arch much (Gentoo's my distro, as you may have guessed ^-^) so if you find any snafus in there, pls ping me an email, or append to this thread, so I can get a chance to fix them.
best,
sakaki