On 30/04/16 08:34, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Apr 13, 2016, at 10:27 PM, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > >
