Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Should `setup-apkrepos -f` if fails.
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From: Tuan Hoang <tmhoang@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:03:42 +0100
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On 3/8/19 5:00 PM, Tuan Hoang wrote:
> I would love to hear opinions from Alpine dev team on this matter.
> 
> What's in my mind is something like established method like kickstart
> (and preseed too?).
> 
> Something like, you have an init service that watches for kernel parm
> 'auto_inst'. If there is, it starts the automated installer for you (and
> somehow can reuse our setup-* scripts), with a provided configuration
> file. Could be like 'auto_inst=https://yoursite.com/auto_inst.conf'. I
> think this would be a nice fit for Alpine.
> 
As simple as firstboot init service we are having and its corresponding
kernel parm 'ssh_key'.
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/openrc/firstboot.initd

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> On 3/8/19 4:52 PM, Drew DeVault wrote:
>> A little bit late to this thread, but I found the installation scripts
>> wholely unsuitable for unattended installation. You're probably better
>> off ditching them. Here's the script I use:
>>
>> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/tree/master/images/alpine/genimg
>>
>> Feel free to adapt it to your needs. IMO given the simplicity of doing
>> these steps manually, I think that the setup-* scripts should be
>> considered useful only in an interactive install.
>>
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