How to start the installer script from the DVD iso image?

[marjohn56]

ROTFL. ;D

[franco]

Here's the manual part rewritten for clarity. It has a new subsection "Installer Usage", but not a lot of new info in particular other than the option 8 "opnsense-installer" trick.

https://github.com/opnsense/docs/commit/906616ac3


Cheers,
Franco

[marjohn56]

5 to 1 says you'll still get asked.  :)

[franco]

Ok, let's wait and see.

[MrCCL]

I admit it's described on the page several places, sorry for that.
But I just didn't understand the meaning of if. Even though the formulation and grammatical is absolutely 100% correct, it just didn't make sense to me at that time. Partly because of the duplicated naming "installer" and partly because I would never expect it would be executed depending on a user-login.

But there will always be people who don't understand a guide, no matter how good it is, I guess this time I was one of them, damn! :-P

[phoenix]

Here's the manual part rewritten for clarity. It has a new subsection "Installer Usage", but not a lot of new info in particular other than the option 8 "opnsense-installer" trick.

https://github.com/opnsense/docs/commit/906616ac3


Cheers,
Franco

How about calling that section something blindingly obvious like "Install to Hard Disk", using "Installer Usage" doesn't really stand out for me.

[Ciprian]

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Welcome!  Both `root' and `installer' users are available for system
setup or invoking the installer, respectively.  The predefined root
password works for both accounts.

What about?:

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Welcome!

THIS SESSION IS IN LIVE CD MODE! Mind the fact that your changes are NOT persistent after a reboot! (!)

One way to change this is to login with 'installer' user in order to trigger the install to local storage.
The predefined 'root' password works for 'installer' user too.

[franco]

Hmm, more text, less likely read. It drops info about the root user shell usage, too.

We don't want to scroll too far, because from the login prompt you can see which root disk is mounted. It will clearly show it's "Install" or "Nano" for all images we have. We've once had a feature request about it so we added it, but it was never after posted here in the forum for the question so while it's not useless, it doesn't really help if the text is skipped either way. :/


Cheers,
Franco

[Ciprian]

Actually, thinking through about that, and after a few more days, I can say that the info is there, "in your face" enough!
First, RTFM, and second and more than RTFM, RTFS!!! :) (screen)

[kanstin]

Can you make the text blink?

"LOGIN AS 'installer' TO INSTALL OPNSENSE"

If it's bright/bold and blinking and they still can't figure it out then idk.

[franco]

I have it one more docs pass... let's try to reassess based on 18.7 experiences...

https://github.com/opnsense/docs/commit/110424be6


Cheers,
Franco

[marjohn56]

Only if they read the manual first.  :P