sokoow/globalhack-laptop-installer

Globalhack entry - easy laptop automated imager

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[USB-image]Create a CI/CD builder for ISO/USB image

Create a CICD auto builder for the image. Cover these aspects:

• A CICD account on some free service (travis? drone?)
• a builder script
• some way to publish built artifacts in releases page of the project

[Website] Create a simple Hugo/Jekyll based website

Get a single pager website up and running:

• Needed sections are: about, documentation/manual (pointing to a PDF), downloads

Hosting options:

• github pages
• IPFS + cloudflare IPFS gateway

[iPXE hosting]Clone netboot.xyz

Have a look at netboot.xyz repos, and create a clone of it. Use the PXE file I'll provide as an example of a laptop builder. Assumptions are:

• that you have an S3-compatible bucket somewhere on public cloud that contains OS and config file data + a CDN
• that your netboot instance uses this bucket (or its URL)
• somehow test this setup to see if it invokes a OS installer from this S3 bucket

[iPXE hosting]Parametrize netboot.xyz clone

Rip out almost all components of netboot, and leave:

• two choices: default boot from HD, and "Install an image"
• think about localizations for different languages
• test the whole lot

[docs]PDF manual stub

We'll need a simple, maybe even image/based manual for the whole lot. General assumptions:

• user downloads a small-ish USB/ISO
• then they burn the ISO on USB using something like https://www.balena.io/etcher/
• then they need to connect an ethernet cable to their laptop from their home router (sorry, no easy way to do this through wifi)
• then they boot into ISO/USB, select 'install/image my laptop'
• wait for 45 minutes-ish
• reboot and remove USB key, voila!

[USB-image]Create a stub of ISO/USB installer

So the idea more or less is to create a basic builder for iPXE from USB. Why USB ? Cause not everybody will have their home router configured properly enough with DHCP/BOOTP, and we don't have time to teach people how to do that. By publishing an ISO and USB image to boot from, we're cutting away all unnecessary complexity.

Here's what has to be done:

• read about how iPXE and netboot.xyz works
• try to setup packer and vagrant - this is for your virtualbox test environment. If you don't know vagrant or packer, I'll be trying to publish examples of it soon.
• try to boot an iPXE without the OS on virtualbox first, then point it to execute netboot.xyz over the internet
• create a simple ISO and USB image with packer