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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mrgrumpymonkey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mrgrumpymonkey</span></a></span> depends...</p><ul><li>We've already seen shit that cracked <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windowy8Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windowy8Bing</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows10S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows10S</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows11Home" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11Home</span></a> wide open with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Adware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adware</span></a> that also disables <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsDefender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsDefender</span></a>.</li></ul><p>Next logical step is some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PowerShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerShell</span></a> script that downloads a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> distro image, repartition the system drive, add some unallocated space at the end, put a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CloudInit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloudInit</span></a> config in it and then do an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UnattendedInstall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnattendedInstall</span></a> of said system with <code>bcd</code> by calling up <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bcdedit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bcdedit</span></a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/chainload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chainload</span></a> said partition.</p><ul><li>I jist have neither the time nor spoons to do that shit myself, but in theory a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NetInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetInstaller</span></a> image of ~ 100MB should suffice...</li></ul>
CCC Freiburg<p>refferenzen/mentions :<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/lubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lubuntu</span></a> <a href="https://lubuntu.me/downloads/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lubuntu.me/downloads/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/kali" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kali</span></a> <a href="https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-installer-images" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kali.org/get-kali/#kali-instal</span><span class="invisible">ler-images</span></a><br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/tails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tails</span></a> <a href="https://tails.net/install/index.de.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tails.net/install/index.de.htm</span><span class="invisible">l</span></a><br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/c</span><span class="invisible">urrent/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/veracrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>veracrypt</span></a> <a href="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ventoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ventoy</span></a> <a href="https://www.ventoy.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ventoy.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://f-droid.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">f-droid.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://signal.org/android/apk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">signal.org/android/apk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">f-droid.org/packages/de.schild</span><span class="invisible">bach.oeffi/</span></a><br><a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">f-droid.org/packages/net.osman</span><span class="invisible">d.plus/</span></a><br><a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vrem.wifianalyzer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">f-droid.org/packages/com.vrem.</span><span class="invisible">wifianalyzer/</span></a><br><a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.rwth_aachen.phyphox/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">f-droid.org/en/packages/de.rwt</span><span class="invisible">h_aachen.phyphox/</span></a><br><a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">f-droid.org/packages/org.mozil</span><span class="invisible">la.fennec_fdroid/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/wifianalyzer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wifianalyzer</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/phyphox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phyphox</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ventoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ventoy</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/fennec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fennec</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/netinstall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netinstall</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/netinstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netinstaller</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/dasoeffi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dasoeffi</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/fennec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fennec</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/@AeonCypher" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AeonCypher</span></a></span> I guess <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenMediaVault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenMediaVault</span></a> is doing a <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NetInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetInstaller</span></a>"</em> approach and thus they just use a minimal linux to boot and then just let it download the necessary packages and/or base image on the fly.</p><ul><li>This does make sense as they'd only have to ship one image per architecture / boot option and not have people be confused by a dozen or so images at install, at the cost of requiring a fully working network with internet access...</li></ul><p>It's also quite an old tradition on many <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> distros, tho <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> and others do offer regular <em>offline-installable</em> "<code>live-server</code>" images that'll do just fine.</p><ul><li>Personally I'm more proficient in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UbuntuLTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UbuntuLTS</span></a> but if all you want os do provide a shitload of convenient storage on your LAN and via the Internet, basically any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> that can get your required packages to run will work fine.</li></ul><p>I wished I had OS/1337 developed far enough to be an option as of now to at least <code>curl</code> &amp; <code>dd</code> something on an SSD, but I'm confident you'll be able to get stuff setup starting from a Debian "minimal" install...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neingeist" class="u-url mention">@<span>neingeist</span></a></span> You remember <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BootFloppies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BootFloppies</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Floppinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Floppinux</span></a>?</p><p>Cuz I do.</p><p>Alongside with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NetInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NetInstaller</span></a> floppies like the one <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Debian</span></a> &quot;Sarge&quot; used...</p><p>Also OS/1337 is about being a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/minimalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>minimalist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TUI</span></a> / <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Desktop</span></a> for like the oldest and most ancient machines like some <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/i486" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>i486</span></a>|SX…</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>So if you ask: &quot;How do you do <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PackageManagment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PackageManagment</span></a>?&quot;</p><p>Well, I do work on something called <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spm</span></a> which would then use <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/toybox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>toybox</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/wget" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wget</span></a> implementation to just pull like an archive, extract it and put the binary where it belongs.<br /><a href="https://github.com/OS-1337/spm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/OS-1337/spm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>OFC that&#39;s beyond the scope of OS/1337 alone but it might be useful and necessary if we really want a system that can go: <br />&quot;<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/boot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>boot</span></a> this <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Floppy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Floppy</span></a> (image), <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SSH" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SSH</span></a> into the system and you can basically do a sort-of-<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NetInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NetInstaller</span></a> that way…&quot;</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OS1337</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://squeak.social/@whitekiba" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitekiba</span></a></span> I mean I don&#39;t look for computational efficiency....</p><p>OFC modern crypto needs a lot of processing power...</p><p>But I&#39;d even consider doing a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ramdisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ramdisk</span></a> and making a script that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/wget" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wget</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dropbear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dropbear</span></a> as a working hack...</p><p>Even if that makes it a sort-of &quot;<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/netlive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>netlive</span></a>&quot; [ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/netinstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>netinstaller</span></a> meets <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/live" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>live</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linux</span></a>] workaround...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>@gameplayer@tech.lgbt but that&#39;s kinda expected by the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NetInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NetInstaller</span></a>...</p>
Luis Guzman<p>Once again diving into debian-installer to learn how to provide d-i ISOs targeting the missing architectures on <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Trisquel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trisquel</span></a> 11.0, <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Aramo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aramo</span></a></p><p>Ready to go deep into the rabbit hole! :blobcatpopcorn: </p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/arm64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arm64</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/armfh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>armfh</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ppc64el" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ppc64el</span></a><br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/netinstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netinstaller</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@josephholsten" class="u-url mention">@<span>josephholsten</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@Toasterson" class="u-url mention">@<span>Toasterson</span></a></span> @marcan@treehouse.systems <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vt.social/@lina" class="u-url mention">@<span>lina</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>AsahiLinux</span></a></span> @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy" class="u-url mention">@<span>geerlingguy</span></a></span> </p><p>And whilst all previous versions of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RasberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RasberryPi</span></a> just use the bootcode.bin on a fat32 filesystem to startup, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pi4" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pi4</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CM4" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CM4</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pi400" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pi400</span></a> have their bootcode as seperate <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EEPROM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EEPROM</span></a> which also houses the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NetInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NetInstaller</span></a> system:<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/109965949564312063" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@kkarhan/10996594</span><span class="invisible">9564312063</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberry-pi.html#raspberry-pi-4-boot-eeprom" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">raspberrypi.com/documentation/</span><span class="invisible">computers/raspberry-pi.html#raspberry-pi-4-boot-eeprom</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@Toasterson" class="u-url mention">@<span>Toasterson</span></a></span> Well, the @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social doesn&#39;t actually have a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UEFI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UEFI</span></a>, but a simple &amp; minimal ROM that - as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy" class="u-url mention">@<span>geerlingguy</span></a></span> showcased - merely fits a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NetInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NetInstaller</span></a>:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlBIfpBwqKY" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=qlBIfpBwqKY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Instead of UEFI, on the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pi4" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pi4</span></a> - like the original <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> - the Broadcom SoC looks for a bootcode at a specific adress and then proceeds to load the initramfs and kernel to boot.</p><p>Personally I wished all devices used <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LinuxBoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinuxBoot</span></a> (aka. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NERF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NERF</span></a>)<br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxBoot" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxB</span><span class="invisible">oot</span></a></p>