Leo Famulari transcribed 2.0K bytes: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:06:09PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > > IN-Berlin wants a raw image (they have read our documentation). > > The way their system works is that you sent > > them your ssh pubkey, they initialize a basic Debian system depending on > > the size you chose, and you can login once you get the hostname etc. > > They have an out-of-band consoleserver where the ssh key is placed > > aswell for the machine. > > I don't work with this non-profit organization, but having a way to > > define ssh pubkeys in the system config would be super useful for this. > > Right now I'm about to create my own system and just sent it to them as > > soon as I feel up to it. > > If they could simply create the system in their infrastructure, that > > would be an incredible speedup and reproducible. > > I don't know much about the out of band consoleserver, I have to ask > > if that's somehow relevant or if it simply needs some initrd settings to > > expose it to the server. > > Interesting! I'll probably take a look at this when I got some free > time.
I'll write an email to IN-Berlin asking about the consoleserver this week. If it's nothing special, we could provide this bare image, and people could download it as the GuixSD with ssh + whatever is needed for it to work out in server context as a start.