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Thomas Stallinger 3a7cdf47ad docs: refine ADR-0009 ultima ratio with a generic staged-ISO bootstrap medium

Instead of customers flashing a different physical stick per workspace/
distro combination, one slim generic bootstrap medium (no live desktop
needed) stages the server-built personalized distro ISO into a small
partition on the target disk and boots it directly via GRUB loopback/
iso-scan (the same pattern Ventoy uses in production). The staging
partition is deliberately ephemeral - the real install's own
partitioning step wipes it along with the rest of the disk, keeping
Tuxflotte's own disk-touching code to a throwaway staging area only,
clearly inside the boundary already drawn against reimplementing the
actual install logic.

Also records the assessment that this is a genuine architectural
simplification, not just an Anaconda-specific workaround: it removes
the entire class of live-desktop/EROFS friction from recent days and
fits the project's own "orchestrate native installers" philosophy
better than the live-kiosk approach did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-23 13:45:37 +02:00

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docs: refine ADR-0009 ultima ratio with a generic staged-ISO bootstrap medium

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