Preparing Fedora image

Preparing Fedora image
There are several steps you'll need to carry out before you can launch the new image.

Step 1
First create a 3GB image using the following command:
    dd if=/dev/zero of=rootfs3G.ext3 count=6M
 
NOTE: This took about 45 seconds

Step 2
Now format the image you just created using the following command:
    /sbin/mkfs.ext3 rootfs3G.ext3
You will warned that rootfs3G.ext is not a block special device

Simply press y - the image will be formatted, displaying the results:

Step 3
Create 2 folders to use to extract the image, using the following 2 commands:
    mkdir mnt
    mkdir mnt2
NOTE: Do not run these as sudo as this will create the folders with administrative permissions only

Step 4
Next view the fedora image to identify where the 2nd sector starts using the following command:
    file raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img
Take a note of the strartsector value for partition 2 as seen below (206848 in this case)

Step 5
The next step is to mount the 2nd partition in the image (identified by the startsector value above) to the new mnt folder created in step 3 using the following command:
    sudo mount -o loop,offset=$[206848*512] raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img mnt
NOTE: 
    The offset value identified which sector to start reading from
    Following that we specify the fedora image
    Lastly we specify device to mount the image to

Step 6
The next step is to mount the 2nd partition that will be used to copy the image to using the following command:
    sudo mount -o loop rootfs3G.ext3 mnt2
NOTE:
    rootfs3G.ext3 is the name of the image created in step 1
    mnt2 is the 2nd folder created in step 4

Step 7
Next copy the contents of the mounted partition of the image onto the new image created.
To clarify:
  We created the mnt folder and mounted the 2nd partition from raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img onto it.
  We created a new blank image called rootfs3G.ext3 and formatted it
  We created the mnt2 folder and mounted the rootfs3G.ext3 image onto it
We will now copy the files from mnt to mnt2 - this will copy the files from the partition to rootfs3G.ext3 with the following command:
    sudo cp mnt/* mnt -a

NOTE: This will take several minutes

Step 8
Now unmount the 2 folders created to copy the files from the partition to the new image using the following commands:
    sudo umount mnt2
    sudo umount mnt

This now leaves us with a new image called rootfs3G.ext3 containing the files from the 2nd partition of the official fedora image.  Qemu can now be launched pointing to this image.


Next: Launching Fedora