On 09.01.21 11:17, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

  >Don't think a pi or linux in general  ever does ask questions on the
  >console before booting. Only potentially the boot loader, and that on a
  >Pi doesn't as far as I know.

With "questions", I mean all the stuff that is asked during the first
boot to do the initial setup. Doesn't the Pi do this when a screen or a
serial console is connected?

I'm very familiar with Solaris, roughly with Linux but not really with
the Pi.

  >I cant answer for fedora though. I used raspbian server as its better
  >documented., Cant see the point of fedora, The Pi Zero W server after
  >editing the card off the pi in a reader came up on the right IP adress,
  >found the network and connected, and set up sshd. First time!

I installed Raspbian lite (I don't need the desktop stuff) on the card
for a second Pi, touched the ssh file and was set. Easy. But my few
Linux knowledge is rather RH flavored than Debian so I'd prefer Fedora
on this Pi.

  >I think that on raspbian at least an empty file called ssh in /boot
  >directory is enough. (that's the DOS FAT partition )
  >
  >The guys thought of this when they ported linux to the Pi!

Yes, I know how it works on Raspbian. But I'm not sure if Fedora does it
in the same way. It would be nice if it did ;) ...

TIA

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