{"id":160,"date":"2012-04-22T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-04-22T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:47:20","slug":"fedora-17-on-the-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 17 on the Pi!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After applying the SD Card disk formatting and ‘optimisation’ mentioned previously, I decided to attempt to bring the version of Fedora (14) up to date..<\/p>\n

The Fedora 17 Pi ‘respin’ is due sometime in May, but I decided – based on my experiences with Fedora 17 on the Dreamplug – to try to ‘hack’ F17 from the Fedora Arm repository onto the Pi…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had to manually create the ‘new’ Fedora 17 file system layout (with \/sbin and \/lib and .\/bin softlinked to \/usr\/sbin and \/usr\/lib and \/usr\/bin respectively)..<\/p>\n

After a lot of hacking, using yum (multiple times) and having to manually download and install (rpm…nodeps…force..) several key dependent rpms, and manually uninstall several conflicting ‘pi-specific” rpms, I finally have FC17 running on the Pi..<\/p>\n

I now have xfce4 running, and – apart from the system time being 1970 – everything seems OK!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FYI…. Firefox is slow<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)\nKernel 3.1.9+ on an armv6l (tty1) \nrgpi login:\n\n<\/pre>\n
\"pi_f17_xfce4\"<\/a>
Raspberry Pi, Fedora 17, xfce4, firefox<\/p><\/div>\n
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Raspberry Pi Webmin - Fedora 17<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After applying the SD Card disk formatting and ‘optimisation’ mentioned previously, I decided to attempt to bring the version of Fedora (14) up to date.. The Fedora 17 Pi ‘respin’ is due sometime in May, but I decided – based on my experiences with Fedora 17 on the Dreamplug – to try to ‘hack’ F17 from the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,11,16,21],"tags":[156,182,313,328,362,379,431],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-linux-arm","category-raspberry-pi","tag-fedora-17","tag-hack","tag-raspberry-pi-2","tag-rpm","tag-testing","tag-update","tag-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}