A tailscale_authkey file on the autoinstall drive gets the installed
machine onto the tailnet on its own: the tailscale package is bundled in
the offline mirror and installed only when the key is present, the key is
staged root-only at /etc/tailscale/authkey, and a oneshot first-boot unit
runs tailscale up once the network is really there. On success the key is
deleted and the unit disables itself; on failure both survive to retry on
the next boot, so an offline install joins whenever it first gets
connectivity. ufw allows traffic in on tailscale0 via the same
write-the-rule-then-ignore-the-chroot-exit-code dance as the SSH phase.
Bundling rather than fetching at first boot is deliberate: pacman -Sy
tailscale on a fresh machine is a partial upgrade, and pacman -Syu means
an unattended full system upgrade racing the user's first login. The
offline mirror is a coherent snapshot; installing from it keeps the
target consistent and the install offline-capable. See plans/tailscale.md.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xc74h4WSYpuYPGuYbFAR1q
The JSON wrapper was the one piece of autoinstall input that wasn't an
existing format: the other files are the configurator's own output, and
the keys end up in sshd's authorized_keys anyway. So take that file
directly -- one key per line, comments and key options work as they do
everywhere else -- and drop the parsing in between. The only thing JSON
bought was parse-error detection, and the phase still fails loudly when
the file carries no usable keys.
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The loader now settles udev before probing, so a fast boot cannot miss
the drive and silently drop a headless install into the wizard. All the
files come over in a single cp, and a failed copy removes anything it
already copied and falls back to the wizard: the wizard cleans up only
what it writes itself, so a half-copied ssh.json would otherwise leak
into the interactive install that follows. The command takes an optional
path prefix so tests can run it against a sandbox instead of the live
system.
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