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Hi, I was wondering if sdm would work when installed on Mac OS Catalina (or Big Sur) with extFS by Paragon Software to be able to access ext4 file systems? I understand that some of the settings for the custom RaspiOS img are normally read from the system under which sdm is installed. In my case I'd like to have an option to read these from a custom config file. Thank you |
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Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac, nor do I know enough about MacOS to answer this definitively. The primary requirements that sdm has on the host OS (MacOS in this case) are systemd-nspawn and ext4. A very quick web search tells me that there might be ways to get both of these working on MacOS. As far as the settings in a config file, you can create a bash script that has the settings you want for such things as Keyboard, Locale, and Timezone so you don't have to set those every time. I'd be happy to sort out how to use sdm on MacOS if you want to loan me a Mac :) . If that's not possible, I'm happy to work with you on trying to get it working, but you'll need to do most of the footwork. |
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Super. With the extended option it works like a charm! Thank you Benn! |
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Great news! I’ll be interested in your thoughts and feedback after you’ve used it for a while. What’s good, and perhaps more importantly, what shortcomings or areas where improvements could be helpful did you run in to? And (shameless plug) if you really like it, it would be awesome if you could do a post in the Raspberry Pi forums to help expose others to the benefits of using sdm. Not necessary of course, and I’ll still work with you on any future issues whether you do or not. ;) |
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Sure Benn. |
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Thanks, Istvan. I've been thinking about the installation script since revisiting this with you yesterday, and I've decided that I'll a) check the OS that it's being installed on, and b) If not Raspbian/RasPiOS then install qemu-user-static and binfmt-support, and c) warn if the OS isn't raspios or ubuntu that it might not work. |
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EZsdmInstaller is now OS-aware per my previous note. |
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One other thought. If you have a Pi, you can use the Pi itself to bootstrap using sdm:
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Thank you Benn Indeed this was also the first option I thought about. I have only one Pi (actually also a very old laptop running PiOS) which I could use in this way, the others are more 'embedded' into projects, etc. Best |
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Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac, nor do I know enough about MacOS to answer this definitively. The primary requirements that sdm has on the host OS (MacOS in this case) are systemd-nspawn and ext4. A very quick web search tells me that there might be ways to get both of these working on MacOS. As far as the settings in a config file, you can create a bash script that has the settings you want for such things as Keyboard, Locale, and Timezone so you don't have to set those every time.
I'd be happy to sort out how to use sdm on MacOS if you want to loan me a Mac :) . If that's not possible, I'm happy to work with you on trying to get it working, but you'll need to do most of the footwork.