Re: comments on installation instructions

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

On Wed, 2024-01-03 at 07:50 +0100, Harold Gutch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 03:08:34AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> > ... Alpine
> > Linux tiny-cloud
> > 
> >   https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/cloud/tiny-cloud
> > 
> 
> 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.

You are exactly right about the hassle. The Alpine tiny-cloud and
Canonical's own cloud-init support a cloud type of NoCloud which can be
implemented simply as a file in a FAT partition.

Cheers,
Lloyd