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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon gh2o

Official support for custom images

Open nitrix opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

I don't know how much this [1] affects your project; maybe it's just a new opportunity to do things right.

[1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/

Cheers, Alex.

nitrix avatar Oct 05 '18 23:10 nitrix

Currently, ISO files are planned to be supported towards the end of 2018.

Until ISO support gets added, this repo is still a much better option.

The alternative (for now) involves rolling your own virtualization image, which seems like overkill.

If you would like to upload an ISO file, we suggest first booting the ISO into your VirtualBox (or your favorite virtualization tool) to generate a supported file type, and then importing that file into our Custom Image tool.

mgibbs189 avatar Oct 23 '18 18:10 mgibbs189

There's now robsonde/digitalocean_builder which has a script for building archlinux custom images for digital ocean. I've used it and it works pretty well.

But I still find this Debian conversion script superior. Digital Ocean prohibits IPv6 on installs from custom images. But you can start a Debian image with IPv6, convert it to Arch, and keep using IPv6.

bobpaul avatar Apr 03 '20 05:04 bobpaul

Another option is using the cloud-image from the official Arch Linux arch-boxes project.

I have tested it with Digital Ocean and it works. I did hit a DO bug though, but it has been fixed.

klausenbusk avatar Nov 06 '20 19:11 klausenbusk