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title = "Automated Chimera Linux Installation With pyinfra"
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date = 2024-11-22T12:59:32+10:00
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# [extra]
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# updated = 2024-07-26T09:58:10+10:00
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I have written some pyinfra deploys to make installing Chimera Linux quick and easy.
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They allow me to go from a machine booted into the installer to booting itself in
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a minute or two. The deploys are targetted at virtual machines, either running on
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my desktop with KVM, or on a VPS host like Digital Ocean, Vultr, or RackNerd.
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I've also included a way to bootstrap remote access to the machine for Installation
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using `xdotool`.
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- There are variants for EFI and BIOS based systems.
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- The code is at: ...
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- It's not a completely generic framework; feel free to tweak settings as needed
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- You can just run it again if you want to tweak things, reboot, re-run bootstrap; then re-run pyinfra
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My examples will demonstrate using the tooling on a Vultr$ VM but I've also run them
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against VMs running on my Linux desktop with KVM, and machines hosted on RackNerd — they should work in most places.
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- Assumptions:
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- Linux X11 host
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- If you know how to do xdotool on Wayland let me know.
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- initial setup
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- You've cloned the `chimera-pyinfra` repo and `pwd` is it
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- create venv, activate, install pyinfra
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- Boot from the Chimera Live CD
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- Bootstrap access to the machine with xdotool
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- Note IP and disk path
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- Verify access with pyinfra: `exec uname` or something
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- Run pyinfra against the machine
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- Hit Enter to continue
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- `exec reboot`
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- Done, you should be able to ssh to the machine
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- From here you can do post-installation tasks; install additional packages, etc.
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- You may choose to continue to manage the system with pyinfa, or just use this
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to install, then manage by hand.
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