Open mirkobrombin opened 7 months ago
Yes, but I have another suggestion: We could probably make the user select a file in the regular installer containing the image. So a user could have two USBs or just load their image onto the flashed USB somewhere.
This would be less complicated then always building three ISOs (plus a online ISO probably) and would open up the possibility of installing custom images right from the start.
Good idea, the user could have the tarball downloaded in addition to the ISO and have albius use it
This can't replace isos with the images loaded already. if anything it should be an extra option since, we cannot expect users to have two USB drives
Yeah I was thinking of it as an extra option. I think the initial proposal is still the only solution to provide a full offline solution without asking the user to prepare 2 USB. The only problem is that generating 4 different ISOs (net, desktop, nvidia, vm) would require a good structure and automation/integration with the website.
In both cases providing a rootfs, whatever it is bundled with the ISO or not, is easier and would just require minor changes to Albius.
Coudn't we do something similar to ventoy where the user could just load the tarball onto the flashed USB drive?
That would require changes to the live iso which is just not worth it honestly, an extra option (like debian already has for external/offline apt repositories) is the one thats easiest to implement and most helpful
To achieve a full offline installation, we would have to populate a containers storage with desktop image. Since we have 3 different images, we have to generate 3 different ISOs: