Feature request: create regular ubuntu images for ARM

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

a feature request/proposal: Would be nice if ubuntu-device-flash would also support regular mainstream-ubuntu images, i.e. just run debootstrap to create the image.

Reason:

I have several ARM computers, a cubietruck, an odroid, a banana pi. It's a nightmare to get working images for them. In most cases it measn to download something homebrewn from some untrusted web site.

The major problem is getting the boot code, the kernel and some modules and initramfs specials. All the other things could easily be done with debootstrap.

Now I saw that ubuntu-device-flash has the solution for exactly that problem: It takes a device-specific tar archive with kernel, boot code and such things, and creates all the rest, but just for ubuntu touch and ubuntu core.

Would be great (and in my eyes easy to implement) to support calling debootstrap after creating the file system and installing kernel/bootcode things. Would be a great way to have both regular Ubuntu mainstream images and core images with just a simple device part.

regards
Hadmut

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-device-flash 0.2+14.04.20140416.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Feb 4 23:41:46 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-06 (182 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.3)
SourcePackage: goget-ubuntu-touch
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)