Re: comments on installation instructions

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 03:08:34AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:58:01 +1100, matthew green wrote:
> 
> > there's a whole man page descripting it - creds_msdos(8). :)
> 
> May we should consider something akin to cloud-init but more
> lightweight?  E.g. we can probably draw some inspiration from Alpine
> Linux tiny-cloud
> 
>   https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/cloud/tiny-cloud
> 
> which is obviously alpine specific, but is indeed tiny and is mostly
> in shell (used to be all shell, iirc, but has grown a small C program
> to get values from yaml).

Does that get its setup from a magic "cloud webserver" running on
169.254.169.254:80 or something like that?  If it's that kind of thing
it sounds like far more of a hassle to configure that to feed
credentials to a headless SBC than putting a line in a file in the FAT
partition - at least to me, YMMV of course.

The amd64 live image does part of that, see
src/distrib/amd64/liveimage/Makefile and
src/distrib/utils/embedded/files/{ec2_init,resize_disklabel}


  Harold