Re: creating official Debian images for ARM-based NAS devices
On 30/04/16 08:34, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2016, at 10:27 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> wrote:
>> 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.
> On Apr 19, 2016, at 2:27 AM, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 04:55:53PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>> get started. There is no need for the user to run through all the
>>> installer questions, on many devices they can simply log in to the
>>> standard admin page, upload the OpenWRT image through a web form and it
>>> starts running with default settings.
>> The minimum we need to ask from users is for user/password setting. Most
>> live-cd / live-image tools just hardcode a default credential, which is
>> quite bad for embedded devices that will be running for years...
>>
>> Riku
> Riku has a very good point.
>
> So… Taking Daniels’ idea and adding Riku’s point we get a Debian Live DVD
> that has a preconfigured DHCP/BOOTP/TFTP service and a script you can run
> from the command line that asks a bunch of questions to build a pre-seed
> file. One of the questions *must* be for user/password settings.
They say that for every question in a script/form, you lose half the users
Making the username fixed (root? admin?) and simply asking them to
choose a password may maximize engagement.
> For the use-case of mass-installing a bunch of devices, it would probably be
> a good idea for the script to take as input an already configured pre-seed
> file to use as defaults.
>
> The script should be interactive if given no parameters, but it should be
> able to take enough parameters specifying values that it can be run
> non-interactively if desired.
>
> I’d work on such a thing, if somebody else were to lead the project.
>
> Rick
>
>
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