Hello!
I am the maintainer of GitHub - UnconnectedBedna/shrink-backup: A utility to backup SBC:s (like Raspberry pi) into minimal bootable img files and I was going to install fedora-IOT to see if I could make sure shrink-backup is working on that distro on a rpi4b.
I downloaded the raw img and looped it on my desktop computer and I can see it uses ext4 on the root partition witch is one of the requirements for the backup script to work, so far all good, but I did notice that there are 2 boot partitions instead of one like on rpi os, so I probably need to do a bit of tweaking with the script to make it functional.
If I get this to work, I might even look into making the script workable with LVM and XFS that is a requirement to make the script work with fedora server for arm.
Now to the problem:
I am not a fedora user, I use arch (BTW) so using the installer is out of the question (unless there is something on AUR that I did not find?), and I can’t find much documentation about anything.
I wrote the img to a sd-card and booted thinking it might give me a setup utility of some sort the first boot.
For some reason I got no hdmi signal from either of the hdmi ports on the rpi4 I use so I turned the device off and cold booted with the hdmi cable connected to the other hdmi port I used from last boot and suddenly I got output, but after the boot process was done, it is asking for login.
Since very lackluster documentation, I can not find any login credentials, and it also seems root is disabled for login anyway, at least on other versions of fedora when I read documentation about those.
Is there really no way of setting up the device without me having to install fedora and use the arm-image-installer?
Or did I maybe get a setup config of some sort the first time I booted when I got no hdmi signal that is now gone, and should rewrite the img to the sd-card again and redo a “first boot”?
Edit
I now found this by clicking the link under " Configure a Serial Console (Optional)": Architectures/ARM/Raspberry Pi - Fedora Project Wiki that indicates that there should have been a setup utility, I guess I’ll retry to rewrite the img to the sd-card again to see if it will appear this time.
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Edit 2
Nope, no setup utility presents itself, only a login prompt, so my original problem persists.
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If there also is a way to setup ssh (I guess I can mount the looped raw img file and edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to give access, but I still need a user), that would be preferable over using a keyb and monitor.
Edit 3
I looked into creating a key-pair to use as indicated that the installer does, so I looped and mounted the sd-card, but the img is not at all what I expected, there is no “normal” linux structure and no “root” directory, but there is a “root” partition. So there obv also is no /etc/ssh/sshd_config available anyway. I def need clarification or links to documentation about all of this.
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Thanks in advance.
