Hi Tomas, [ For those that have not already seen it, this is in reply to: https://blog.fai-project.org/posts/extending-iso-images/ ]
I've long thought that it would be great to be able to easily tweak our ISO images, and I think this idea may well provide the means. This could be particularly useful for enabling Debian Blends to present users with a task list that would be tuned for their blend. This makes me think that we may be able to publish an image with a filesystem already appended to it, so that a blend could then create such a thing including a preseed file that configures their preferred selection of tasks. Is that possible with your approach? BTW if one did that, would it still be possible to read the filesystem if one were to burn it to a physical CD rather than write it to a USB stick? (just wondering -- don't really see much need to do that these days) -- I guess it should be, even if some loop mount with offset was required to make it work. Another advantage of having a pre-existing FS appended is that we could have examples in place so that people could apply common tweaks by simply un-commenting a line in the example preseed.cfg, but it introduces the complication of resizing things (or deleting & recreating), if the default size is too small for one's needs. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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