Has anyone generated (unofficial) Debian Installer Bullseye builds?
TBBle opened this issue · 2 comments
I'm about to give away my old TS-419P, and since I have run this script successfully, I thought the best state to leave it in would be to have the Debian Installer pre-flashed (so I can secure-erase the drives, and still leave it bootable with the new partition layout, to avoid leaving the new user to hit #20 (comment) when they try to install Debian or something).
I was going to follow the simple procedure at #20 (comment), but I was wondering before I do that if anyone has built appropriate d-i kernel and initrd, or if I should just flash https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/qnap/ts-41x/ and let the next user install buster and then upgrade.
Hello, I think the donatee will either not trust you and reinstall from scratch wiping it all, or they will live with an installed debian. I don't think you need to have debian installer pre-setup.
Just give them the information about accessing it (network config, reset ssh password to known good state, etc.)
This could be closed, IMHO.
Yeah, I gave the device away (to a work colleague) the week I asked the question. I did indeed reflash the buster installer before giving it away. I secure-erased the disks anyway, so I'd have had to do a new fresh install of Debian to give them an installed Debian.
They never asked any follow-up questions, so I assume they were either able to install buster and upgrade, or flashed the Qnap stock firmware over the top.