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+++ title = "Automated Chimera Linux Installation With pyinfra" date = 2024-11-22T12:59:32+10:00

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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. They allow me to go from a machine booted into the installer to booting itself in a minute or two. The deploys are targetted at virtual machines, either running on my desktop with KVM, or on a VPS host like Digital Ocean, Vultr, or RackNerd. I've also included a way to bootstrap remote access to the machine for Installation using xdotool.

• There are variants for EFI and BIOS based systems.
• The code is at: ...
• It's not a completely generic framework; feel free to tweak settings as needed
• You can just run it again if you want to tweak things, reboot, re-run bootstrap; then re-run pyinfra

My examples will demonstrate using the tooling on a Vultr$ VM but I've also run them against VMs running on my Linux desktop with KVM, and machines hosted on RackNerd — they should work in most places.

• Assumptions:
  • Linux X11 host
    • If you know how to do xdotool on Wayland let me know.
• initial setup
  • You've cloned the chimera-pyinfra repo and pwd is it
  • create venv, activate, install pyinfra
• Boot from the Chimera Live CD
• Bootstrap access to the machine with xdotool
• Note IP and disk path
• Verify access with pyinfra: exec uname or something
• Run pyinfra against the machine
• Hit Enter to continue
• exec reboot
• Done, you should be able to ssh to the machine
• From here you can do post-installation tasks; install additional packages, etc.
• You may choose to continue to manage the system with pyinfa, or just use this to install, then manage by hand.