i have a few old computers without drives and some without graphic cards, i went to make a bootable USB to boot and get some hardware info trough ssh and neofetch (i am mainly interested in CPUs of them and don't want to take them apart yet)
so what i need is:
to make a bootable USB which would function with old systems
set up a basic ssh service (don't care about security, i am not opening ports on my router so everything is happening in LAN)
(and install neofetch, but that's easy)
#bootable USB for old computer
snow cloak
vale glade
Hello @snow cloak, i think you could try out penguins' eggs, its a tool that can make a live iso out of a running system. i know there are other ways out ther that could be more efficient but if you want this quick and not to get much involved you just have to make a virtual machine and install all you want and its configurations, then you run penguins' eggs, extract the ISO of the virtual machine, you could use an http server from python or updog, an ftp server or whatever way you like even a cloud service would work and finally burn the iso on a usb or use ventoy to get them with other ISOs. If you need extra help feel free to ask
PD: once you have ventoy i recommend you try system rescue, its an arch based liveos that comes with disk and system recovery packages installed that could make your life easier and save you ass (also always have an installation medium for that) it has benchmarking and hardware info software installed btw
mellow sigil
snow cloak
Hello <@357177300053262347>, i think you could try out penguins' eggs, its a too...
tbh id rather create a bootable iso than use some software that i am hearing about for the first time and isnt documented in english, both because i would like to actually know and lear the process of how to make sure my old systems work and because i dont like installing software just for one specific use case
vale glade
tbh id rather create a bootable iso than use some software that i am hearing abo...
idk if i explained myself, you end up with a booteable iso
snow cloak
yea i understand, but id rather learn how to set up bootloaders and stuff, as i am more interested in learning rather than just getting to my goal
vale glade
yeah, thats cool
you could investigate about this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/archiso
you could create an ISO with any of the methods above or create a persistent installation on a usb as @mellow sigil does