diff --git a/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md b/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md index e5c30e264..d5f3f00e4 100644 --- a/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md +++ b/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ thoroughly. ### Pre-built images -After [downloading and verifying](../../index.md#downloading-installation-media) -an image, it can be written to the relevant media with -[cat(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cat.1), +The pre-built images provided are prepared for 2GB SD cards. After [downloading +and verifying](../../index.md#downloading-installation-media) an image, it can +be written to the relevant media with [cat(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cat.1), [pv(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/pv.1), or [dd(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/dd.1). For example, to flash it onto an SD card located at `/dev/mmcblk0`: @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ card located at `/dev/mmcblk0`: # dd if=.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress ``` +After flashing, the root partition can optionally be expanded to fit the storage +device with [cfdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cfdisk.8), +[fdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/fdisk.8), or another partitioning tool, and +the filesystem can be resized to fit the expanded partition with +[resize2fs(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/resize2fs.8). + ### Custom partition layout Customizing an installation - for example, with a custom partition layout - diff --git a/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/platforms.md b/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/platforms.md index 45150d4a6..8906e19e7 100644 --- a/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/platforms.md +++ b/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/platforms.md @@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ documentation](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/cmdline-t > these images is that the armv7l image provides a 32-bit system while the > aarch64 image provides a 64-bit system. +### USB mass storage boot on Raspberry Pi 4 + +To boot an RPi 4 from a USB mass storage device, the [install process is the +same](./index.md), but after installation, the USB drive needs to be mounted on +the host and the `root=` argument in `/boot/cmdline.txt` needs to be changed to, +for example, `root=/dev/sda2`. + ### Enabling hardware RNG device By default, the