Overall, you have these options:
Some pieces are borrowed from the Nintendo Switch Fed32 setup. The generic raspi4 notes are here.
Outline:
These steps can be done on an x86_64 Fedora system with a micro-sdcard reader/writer.
# We will use the Minimal-spin. XFCE works too. URL="https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/latest-Fedora-Rawhide/compose/Spins/aarch64/images/" # - server spin in that directory does not boot # - Xfce and Minimal spins work # Our directory for storing images etc. WORKDIR="/home/chris/Downloads/raspi" # Our microsd-card device OUTDEV="/dev/mmcblk0" dnf install -y arm-image-installer lftp cd $WORKDIR # fetch latest Minimal image lftp $URL -e 'mget Fedora-Minimal-Rawhide*' # write the just fetched image fedora-arm-image-installer \ --image Fedora-Minimal-Rawhide-* \ --target=rpi4 --media $OUTDEV --resizefs
### Mount the card mkdir -p $WORKDIR/mnt mount ${OUTDEV}p3 $WORKDIR/mnt mount ${OUTDEV}p2 $WORKDIR/mnt/boot mount ${OUTDEV}p1 $WORKDIR/mnt/boot/efi cd $WORKDIR/mnt # set your root-password to 'fedora' sed -ie 's,^root.*,root:$6$g1sdJY/CulQKzQmS$heAUJV60eTr1HQtTTR188WlA/vOTj6LPuKA7JB1wKEgPiW1qX2gPJHU8lLhSL8KeKgx.hGgUvQ4uzW6JQ68u40:18388:0:99999:7:::,' etc/shadow # As an alternative, execute 'vi etc/shadow' and manually # change the password hash to something else. echo 'PermitRootLogin yes' >>etc/ssh/sshd_config echo pi4.local >etc/hostname echo '127.0.0.1 pi4.local pi4' >>etc/hosts ### Let's set a static IP cat >etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0<<EOT TYPE=Ethernet PROXY_METHOD=none BROWSER_ONLY=no BOOTPROTO=none DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy IPADDR=192.168.0.4 PREFIX=24 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 DNS1=8.8.8.8 NAME=eth0 DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes AUTOCONNECT_PRIORITY=-999 EOT # Disable the initial-setup and other unneeded services rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/initial-setup.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/abrtd.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/abrt-journal-core.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/abrt-oops.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/abrt-vmcore.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/abrt-xorg.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/cups.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nfs-client.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxservice.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vmtoolsd.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ModemManager.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rngd.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/avahi-daemon.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/auditd.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/smartd.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/libvirtd.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/multipathd.service rm -f etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/multipathd.socket cd .. ### prepare boot partition # cma=256M@704M might be needed on Fed32 images, but not # required any more on Fed33 rawhide mnt/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubenv:kernelopts=root=UUID=[..] ro cma=256M@704M mnt/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg: set kernelopts="root=UUID=[..] ro cma=256M@704M " # changes might be required in mnt/boot/efi/config.txt # for dynamically adding/removing screen. # textmode/framebuffer output works also without adding these. hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_drive=2 ### umount $WORKDIR/mnt/boot/efi umount $WORKDIR/mnt/boot umount $WORKDIR/mnt
You should now be able to boot the Pi4 with the sdcard into Fedora, it takes some time. Login via ssh should then be possible.
cat >>~/.bashrc<<EOT # extend prompt to have temperature export PS1='[\u@\h \$(cut -b 1,2 /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)°C \W]\$ ' # colored iostat output export S_COLORS=always EOT ### tuning cat >/etc/rc.local<<EOT #!/usr/bin/bash # VM writeback timeout echo '1500' > '/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs' # power saving for wlan and usb chips echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/control' echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:00.0/power/control' EOT chmod +x /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.local ln -s /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local # To get further ideas about services we do not need systemd-analyze plot >file.svg # For my use cases: systemctl disable lmsensors firewalld # I like gkrellm dnf -y install gkrellm-daemon sysstat htop echo 'allow-host 192.168.0.2' >>/etc/gkrellmd.conf systemctl enable --now gkrellmd # update dnf -y update