Re: How to start up

[MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz gmail com>]

Yes, I have been there.  So far I have not found a description or a
guide on how to create an ostree that contains a whole os.  There are
hints and mentions of git and which OSes use this approach, but I find
it fairly confusing.

Do I need to clone a whole OS source tree and build it?  If so, how do
I put that into an ostree repo?

A long time ago I was using CentOS and I would download the whole
source of the kernel to rebuild it with minor customizations to run
the way I liked it.

I've been fairly far removed from that level of development for a
while (around 14 years) and it doesn't come as easily as I would have
hoped.

Is there really no step-by-step guide on how to put a whole OS into ostree?

If there are pointers in the page you referred me to, they aren't
obvious or easy to locate.  I'll keep reading - seems I need to.  It
still sounds largely Greek to me.

Sorry to bring this kind of obtuseness here.  That's what newbies do,
or I have when a newbie in something this intricate.

I'm hoping there is some kind of ostree-for-dummies guide on using it.
I'm still getting a handle on git....

Thanks!

Mark

On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 1:01 AM Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt gmail com> wrote:
> have you visited this?
>
> https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/
>
>
>
> MR ZenWiz via ostree-list <ostree-list gnome org> schrieb am Sa., 3. Juli 2021, 03:10:
> > I've been looking for some reference that will tell me how to use
> > ostree on a fresh installation (Xubuntu 20.04 VM) to deploy the OS on
> > that same machine.
> >
> > So far I have found nothing like this.  All the documentation I've
> > seen seems to presuppose that I'm already familiar with a fairly
> > detailed technical knowledge of how the ostree repo is after it has
> > been set up, not how to set it up to fold-in the current running OS to
> > be the next (and moving forward) system default boot OS.
> >
> > Can someone tell me where I might find this?  A step by step
> > instruction guide would be best (I'm an ostree rank novice, though
> > I've been developing software in UNIX/Linux for over 30 years).
> >
> > Many thanks for your consideration.
> >
> > Mark Richter, Senior Software Enginer
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/markrichter1
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