RockyRpi/Rocky8_Rpi4_mkimage.sh

#!/bin/bash


# Simple script that runs a Rocky Raspberry pi creation (via appliance-creator), then inserts a UUID to the kernel boot line of the image
# after-the-fact
#
# Usage:  ./Rocky8_Rpi4_mkimage.sh  /path/to/outputfolder/
#
#
# Needs to be run in the same directory as the rocky rpi kickstart, as it relies on it!
#

# Exit with error if we don't have an output directory:
OUTDIR=$1

if [[ -z "$OUTDIR" ]]; then
  echo "Need to run this script with a path to output directory.  Like:  ${0}  /path/to/output/"
  exit 1
fi

mkdir -p "${OUTDIR}"


# Actually create the image.  Our kickstart data should be in the same git repo as this script:
# (This takes a while, especially building on an rpi.  Patience!)
appliance-creator -v -c ./Rocky8_Rpi4.ks -n RockyRpi --version=20210626  --release=1 --vmem=2048 --vcpu=2 --no-compress -o "${OUTDIR}"

chown -R $SUDO_USER. "${OUTDIR}"