Indeed it is, I wasn't sure of the right thred to post the question into, sorry. The problem I see is that I will likely end up posting the WiFi password and SSID into a public fork. (Though that's likely a problem either way)
It may be that editing the ISO post download to inject the Kickstart for a Root Password and WiFi details is the best way to go, without storing those details in the cloud. Maybe reworking this to prompt the user for input could be the safest way to go. https://github.com/alextrical/Fedora-Kinonite-Fablab-Kickstart
It's for deployment inside a Makerspace, so I'm hoping to minimise effort required to restore a working system. The problem is that it asks for the WiFi details after installing, but if the user doesn't enter them in Anaconda the install fails to fetch the built os, and as a result can't install the OS
That could work, they now have a Draytek router which allows up to 4 SSID's and we could set the last one to be enabled when re-provisioning. Though is there really that much danger having the Kickstart configured on a pendrive, when it's kept securely in the owners office drawer?
I suppose I'm aiming to do the equivalent of as close as possible to a preconfigured OS deployment. Back in the XP days, Sysprep was amazing for getting a monoculture of PC's setup identically with minimal input of the technicians. I'm hoping to make something as elegant as that for the Makerspace, Ideally, insert a USB key, reboot, select HDD to install to and select install. Once done ideally have WiFi, Admin and Kiosk user accounts created, all the software installed and configured ready to go, including connection to the central owncloud file share
Once the tooling lands the oci support that shouldn't be a problem. I was doing that at an edu with the full automation, automated pxe install, zero config other than turning the machine on. That was 2006, so it'll be at least that good, hahah.
Actually it may be possible to do a PXE install, as I'm going to be setting up a local storage server in some form. Though WiFi only could be the killer for that idea
It's trying to find the right amount of work to secure a setup of 10 machines in a small Makerspace. Having a dedicated network is probably a bit overkill for the workshop setup
Hmm, yeah erasing the USB is probably the best way to go then. I will get a script to inject the Kickstart and prompt the admin to enter the Root password and WiFi credentials
Out of curiosity is there a central account database fedora can use similar to Active directory to synchronise user accounts (i.e. one place to change an admin password instead of per machine)
If I can enroll an admin account to FreeIPA running on a Docker based server, with minimal human interaction for the workstation OS install, that's the route that's probably best. I'm hoping a single point to change the Admin/Root password across all machines would be pretty useful
I'm familiar enough with setting up a Windows domain, just doing something similar on Linux is rather new to me Just want to fully get rid of M$ rubbish from my life and the communities I'm helping out, where possible
Hi folks I’m with ii.nz and am trying to build bootable USB drives for things like education for classes and shared team development environments. Recently I came across GitHub - osbuild/osbuild-deploy-container, where a qcow2 image can be built, given an OCI OSTree image (i.e: a Universal Blue image). I built a qcow2 image for my u imag...
So. It's installed, as it shows as a conflict if I try to install from the updated OS image, woop. However I cannot get the command to run from terminal, presumably wherever it's installed to isn't the correct location.
The counter problem is it's also an application I've had to compile as a rpm too, so that is also a likely place for the issue. Why do rabbit holes always go so deep in projects
I would be happy to collaborate, it could be useful for some makerspaces out there wanting to allow users to use their own laptops with a pre-loaded system too.
Making an atomic Live USB boot device with persistent storage should be pretty useful to some people ^_^
build a bootable Fedora/OSTree based image include the following software Scratch Sonic Pi Minecraft Forge an IDE? include a PDF or webpage for course instructions webserver? current issues include...
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at the moment im going down a rabbit hole trying to get a STL thumbnail generator working. (good news, it works for Fedora KDE Workstation, but not Kinoite)