On Thursday 16 July 2020 09:55:42 Felix Miata wrote:
> Michael composed on 2020-07-16 10:38 (UTC-0500):
> > William Morder wrote:
> >> Felix Miata mentioned something about installing TDE entirely by the
> >> command-line. Now where is he when we need him?
> >
> > That may have been me, this is what I use (from a Debian derivative).
> > Basically put everything in simple shell scripts and copy it to the
> > install media so you’re not having to type everything from memory.
> > Really useful to add your bin dir and anything else you regularly use
> > from the command line. Hack and slash as needed.
>
> The general method I use begins with Grub, and entries such as those
> following, in custom.cfg:
>
> menuentry "Install openSUSE TW via HTTP" {
> search --no-floppy --label --set=root p03
> linuxefi /stw/linux showopts
> install=http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss hostname=myhost
> hostip=192.168.###.###/24 gateway=192.168.###.### nameserver=8.8.8.8
> net.ifnames=0 kexec_reboot=0 initrdefi /stw/initrd
> }
> menuentry "Install Buntu via HTTP" {
> search --no-floppy --label --set=root p03
> linuxefi /buntu/linux showopts vga=791 --- net.ifnames=0
> netcfg/get_hostname=myhost netcfg/get_domain=my.domain
> netcfg/disable_autoconfig=true netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.###.###/24
> netcfg/get_gateway=192.168.###.### netcfg/get_nameservers=8.8.4.4
> netcfg/confirm_static=true tasks=standard
> base-installer/install-recommends=false initrdefi /buntu/initrd.gz
> }
> menuentry "Install Debian via HTTP" {
> search --no-floppy --label --set=root p03
> linuxefi /deb10/linux showopts vga=791 --- net.ifnames=0
> netcfg/get_hostname=myhost netcfg/get_domain=my.domain
> netcfg/disable_autoconfig=true netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.###.###/24
> netcfg/get_gateway=192.168.###.### netcfg/get_nameservers=8.8.4.4
> netcfg/confirm_static=true tasks=standard
> base-installer/install-recommends=false initrdefi /deb10/initrd.gz
> }
>
> Ordinary installation media works too, but all that manual typing to edit
> the loader line each time is a lot more work than selecting from a Grub
> menu. Since I partition and format in advance, it's simple to save the
> installation kernel and initrd for this use. e.g. for Buster:
>
> wget
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-amd64/current/i
>mages/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux wget
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-amd64/current/i
>mages/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz
>
> Once the minimal installation is complete and booting, I finish by
> following instructions in the wiki, in particular:
>
> "NOTE: tde-trinity package is a comprehensive meta-package. To install a
> minimalist environment, replace tde-trinity with tdebase-trinity in the
> instructions below."
>
> e.g. for Debian:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt install tdebase-trinity tdebase-tdm
I told everybody it was true, Felix, but they didn't believe me.
;-)
Thanks for the quick how-to guide.
Bill
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