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@@ -5,10 +5,20 @@ Tool used to create Debian and Raspberry Pi derived OS images. ## Dependencies -pi-gen runs on Debian-based operating systems. Currently it is only supported on -either Debian Buster or Debian Bullseye and is known to have issues building on -earlier releases of these systems. On other Linux distributions it may be possible -to use the Docker build described below. +pi-gen has been tested and runs on Debian 11 `Bullseye` +to produce OS images for Raspberry-arm64 and PC-amd64 machines +based on Debian 10 `Buster` and Debian 11 `Bullseye`. + +Raspberry-armhf and PC-i386 is also supported, however, +I have not tested these targets anymore. + +Related config variables are +* `TARGET_RASPI` +* `TARGET_ARCH` +* `RELEASE` + +It might be possible to use Docker on other Linux distributions as described below, +however, I have not tested this procedure. To install the required dependencies for `pi-gen` you should run: @@ -67,26 +77,28 @@ The following environment variables are supported: If set to `0` (or other than `1`), the `Raspbian` `apt` source and its packages are **not** being used, i.e. ending up with a vanilla `Debian` installation. - Further `Raspberry` specific tasks are not performed: + Further `Raspberry` specific tasks are **not** performed: + * /boot/config.txt - * /boot/*/cmdline.txt + * /boot/.../cmdline.txt * /boot/ any specific `Raspberry` bootloader - instead, the default tasks are being used: + **instead**, the default tasks are being used with `TARGET_RASPI=0`: + * Install GRUB using `timeout 0` for no visible menu. * `TARGET_ARCH` (Default: `arm64`) Maybe set to any valid and supported architecture, which are - * arm64 - * armhf - * i386 - * amd64 + + - arm64 + - armhf + - i386 + - amd64 * `RELEASE` (Default: `buster`) - The release version to build images against. Valid values are `jessie`, `stretch`, - `buster` and `bullseye`. + The release version to build images against. Valid values are `buster` and `bullseye`. * `INSTALL_RECOMMENDS` (Default: unset) |