[arch-releng] [RFC] Enable headless installation

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Oct 26 10:39:14 EDT 2012


On 10/26/2012 11:31 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 26.10.2012 16:11, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>> To sum things up: Our iso should try to be least intrusive as possible.
>>> Do not alter any settings on the host system and do not listen on any
>>> port.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Pierre
>>>
>> Last night, before going to sleep, I thinking about this ...
>>
>> I agree with you.
>>
> We should also enable serial-getty at ttyS0.service by default - it has no
> [Install] section, so we have to create the symlink manually. Even if
> someone doesn't know how to put console=ttyS0 in the bootloader from
> serial, they'll get a terminal.
>
> More details here: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html
>
>

Yes sounds good enabling by default.

However I have a question here: automated script mechanism where should 
be run? Currently if script= bootparam is present this script allways on 
one time in tty1.

-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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