A version of IFL for ARMHF architecture?

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timg11
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A version of IFL for ARMHF architecture?

Post by timg11 »

Terabyte Unlimited clearly has expertise in building to multiple operating systems.
Recently, I've been using the Raspberry Pi for some tasks. It would be nice to have a version of IFL that could run on Raspbian Linux with the ARMHF architecture.
If IFD is still being supported, the Pi should be possible at least from a memory perspective.

Actually, I've never tried to install IFL on a Pi, but I'm assuming the current IFL is x86 only, right?
DrTeeth
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Re: A version of IFL for ARMHF architecture?

Post by DrTeeth »

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:53:32 EDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
timg11 disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Actually, I've never tried to install IFL on a Pi, but I'm assuming the current IFL is x86 only, right?

There are both 32 bit and 64 bit versions available. They are clearly
marked in the download section. I tried to use the 64 bit version just
for fun, but it kept on prompting for my name and registration number
even though those had been entered, as they had been tens of times
before, during the making of the ISO.
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Cheers,

DrT

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timg11
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Re: A version of IFL for ARMHF architecture?

Post by timg11 »

@DrTeeth, I was just thinking about this again.
The Raspberry Pi doesn't really have a very good backup system, especially that can create an image while running.
The closest thing is something like:

sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p2 of=/home/pi/mounted/serverdir/pibackup.img bs=1M

If a restore was ever needed, it would have to be done on another system that could mount the SDcard.

Can you confirm that you were able to run IFL on a Raspberry Pi? It booted into the IFL environment, despite the registration issue?
Did you use Makedisk to write it to a USB and then boot the Raspberry Pi with that USB drive?
TeraByte Support
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Re: A version of IFL for ARMHF architecture?

Post by TeraByte Support »

It won't run on ARM, but people use IFL for maintaining and deploying Pi all
the time using the sd card.

"timg11" wrote in message news:16156@public.image...

@DrTeeth, I was just thinking about this again.

Can you confirm that you were able to run IFL on a Raspberry Pi? It booted
into the IFL environment, despite the registration issue?
Did you use Makedisk to write it to a USB and then boot the Raspberry Pi
with that USB drive?

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