tui-install.sh:
- Reads /answerfile.json if present (ANSWERFILE_MODE)
- All dialog selections (components, DE, apps) sourced from file
- Hostname from answerfile gets MAC address suffix appended to
prevent conflicts when deploying one image to multiple machines
- Interactive hostname inputbox added to the normal TUI flow
- Colorway dialog added as final step; skipped if no colors differ
from defaults and no answerfile colors are set
- Answerfile mode: runs non-interactively, logs warnings on failure
generate-answerfile.sh (new):
- Dry-runs the full installer dialog flow (OS + dotfiles)
- Writes selections to ~/answerfile.json (or a given path)
- No software is installed; passwords are never written to the file
build.sh:
- New --preconf [FILE] flag embeds an answerfile into the ISO at
/answerfile.json; omitting the flag leaves the ISO clean
- Validates JSON with jq if available before embedding
- Reworked arg parsing to handle the new flag alongside OUT_DIR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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