Re: creating official Debian images for ARM-based NAS devices
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On 13/04/16 18:26, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2016-04-13, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> * Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> [2016-04-13 10:41]:
>>> I had a look at the instructions[1] for preparing firmware for
>>> the Seagate NAS[2]
>>>
>>> There is a link to download a binary image file that somebody
>>> has already prepared and instructions to prepare an image file
>>> yourself.
>>
>> I think we should let the user run Debian installer instead of
>> providing binary images. Installing such images is often much
>> harder on NAS devices than simply running Debian installer.
>
> There is, of course, the option of an installer image with
> preseeding to automate the install targeted at specific devices.
> Shipping some preseeding files like these might be an interesting
> middle-ground between running an installer and shipping a
> ready-to-run image.
>
There are two things that come to mind for me:
- - making it quick for advanced users, if they are installing 10 or 20
of these devices they will be frustrated having to go through the full
installer but they may not feel it is enough inconvenience to go and
learn about preseeding
- - making it feasible for less advanced users. They say that for every
extra question or field in a form, half the users give up
How are people actually using the installer on these devices? Are
they booting it with TFTP and then accessing it over ssh? Or does the
installer run on a traditional x86 machine and create some image that
they can flash into the NAS? If people are relying upon TFTP, it
would not be hard to produce a Debian Live DVD that has a
preconfigured DHCP/BOOTP/TFTP services for people to initialize other
devices like this.
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