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Ansible scripts for McKylän Superarcade

Very rough installation guide

Debian installation

  • Get Debian 10.3 amd64 netinstall image.
  • Write image it to USB stick.
  • Make sure that the target machine is set to "legacy mode" in BIOS to avoid Debian being installed in UEFI mode to avoid UEFI problems.
  • Boot from USB stick.
  • Boot in non-graphical installer, because that's what the rest of the guide follows.
  • When asked for hostname, use hostname dedicab-<machine here>.
  • When asked for domain, set nothing.
  • When asked to create user, use username stepmania.
  • Partition as you like. Using whole disk as a single partition is good. Make sure there is some swap.
  • Eventually you will asked to "select software". Select the following:
    • "...Xfce"
    • "SSH server"
    • "standard system utilities"
    • Unselect everything else
  • After the installation is complete, boot to the new Debian system!

Preparing for running Ansible

  • Log in as stepmania user.
  • Start terminal.
  • Run su -c "gpasswd -a stepmania sudo" to add stepmania to sudo group.
  • Reboot (or log out + log in) for the group change to take effect.
  • Now we need to add the SSH key to the system so we can continue with Ansible. If you have Github account, you can do the following:
    • sudo apt install curl
    • mkdir ~/.ssh
    • curl https://github.com/<GitHub username>.keys > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
  • Let's set the stepmania user to be able to run with passwordless sudo, so we don't need to care about password when running Ansible. Let's do the following:
    • Run sudo /sbin/visudo.
    • Add row stepmania ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL to the bottom.
    • Save. Now sudo should work without password.

Running Ansible script for full install

Now we can start running commands on a remote computer with Ansible.

  • Create file vault-key to the root of this repository and set the Ansible vault key there. Ask Kauhsa about it.
  • Run ansible-playbook -i inventories/makkyla full-install.yml --diff --vault-password-file vault-key --limit <machine ip>.
  • Now we will get to the slightly janky part of this! Reboot the computer and Stepmania will start. It will not have the correct configuration yet though - we just need to do this once to generate initial Preferences.ini and some other files. So just close it. It might be difficult, since you might not have proper key bindings to do that. I suggest connecting to the machine via SSH and executing pkill stepmania.
  • Run ansible-playbook -i inventories/makkyla full-install.yml --diff --vault-password-file vault-key --limit <machine ip> again. Reboot.
  • Copy your songs and courses to the /home/stepmania/stepmania-content folder.