[12:45] <ChrisMorgan> I have an Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 which I run Ubuntu 12.04 (armel) on via Debian Kit. Now, I'm wanting to run the Rust compiler on it, but the build I've made depends on glibc 2.17, which isn't available until Ubuntu 13.04, by which time only armhf builds are supported. So now I want to upgrade or get a new loop disk image which will run on my tablet.
[12:46] <ChrisMorgan> Unfortunately, my endeavours thus far have failed. Is it possible to upgrade an armel-architecture machine to armhf? (Not sure whether that would be advisable, even if possible.)
[12:47] <ChrisMorgan> I've tried downloading ubuntu-13.10-server-armhf+omap4.img, but I can't figure out if I can mount it or not—it's intended to be the entire device, not just a filesystem.
[12:49] <ChrisMorgan> As for the other path of creating a new installation, I haven't been successful in figuring out how that would work at all.
[12:49] <ChrisMorgan> All I think I need is an ext4 loop disk containing what would be in /.
[12:57] <ogra_> ChrisMorgan, thats a partitioned image ... you want to loop mount the second one from it
[12:57] <ChrisMorgan> ogra_: how can I do that?
[12:57] <ogra_> (check with fdisk and use an offset for the loop mount)
[12:58] <ChrisMorgan> OK, thanks!
[12:58] <ogra_> there should be many howtos for this via google :)
[13:00] <ChrisMorgan> Ah yes, I just didn't know what to search for.
[13:01] <ogra_> yeah, we should have added some info to the image description on the cdimage download page
[13:04] <ChrisMorgan> fdisk reports the partition type as "Linux" and the start point as 147456. I presume that means ext4? `sudo mount -o loop,offset=147456 ~/Downloads/ubuntu-13.10-server-armhf+omap4.img /tmp/ubuntuarm -t ext4` is still failing, though.
[13:05] <ogra_> iirc you need to do some math
[13:06] <ChrisMorgan> Hmm... parted reports both partitions as FAT32 :-/
[13:07] <ChrisMorgan> But when forced into B units, it does show a start of 75497472B, which works for mounting as vfat.
[13:08] <ChrisMorgan> So, it contains dists, doc, install, pics, pool, preseed, etc. I thought it was the preinstalled image?
[13:10] <ogra_> oh, no, we dropped that
[13:10] <ogra_> thats indeed a live image
[13:10] <ogra_> sorry
[13:13]  * ChrisMorgan wonders whether he can work with it
[13:14] <ogra_> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/raring/release/ there is a nexus7 img.gz, i dont remember exactly what image format that was
[13:15] <ChrisMorgan> I'll try it and see what happens :-)
[14:09] <ChrisMorgan1> ogra_: I can't figure out how to get anything out of ubuntu-13.04-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+nexus7.{boot,}img :-(
[14:10] <ChrisMorgan1> It's fastboot stuff, I gather, and doesn't appear to be a valid disk image or any obvious form of partition.