void-linux / void-linux/void-mklive
Feature request: Scripts to help with manual installs (e.g. for FDE)
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Description
Retyping all the commands needed for a FDE install gets boring after a few times. Most of those could be wrapped in a few small scripts to save people a bit of time during installs.
To be a bit more exact about what those scripts would do - they'd prepare the bind mounts for the chroot, set up /etc/default/grub and /boot/volume.key. All of those would be pretty easy to implement. I'd do that myself, but idk how - should I create a package with those scripts and then add it to build-x86-images.sh?
Also, how about including genfstab?
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Research direction
Start by reading build-x86-images.sh and reviewing the manual FDE installation steps it would replace. The work is complete when scripts prepare the chroot bind mounts, configure /etc/default/grub and /boot/volume.key, and the scope of including genfstab is decided and implemented.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, shell
- Domain
- operating-systems, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100