sysinstall: optionally, automatically pick target block device after a settle timeout
Let's make sysinstall useful for truly unattended installations, and let it it automatically pick a target disk after some settlement time-out.
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem><para>It prompts the user for the target disk to install the OS on. (Unless the block device
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is already specified on the command line.)</para></listitem>
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is already specified on the command line, or is picked automatically via
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<option>--device-auto</option>.)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>It validates whether the disk is suitable (i.e. large enough, and with enough
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free/unpartitioned space) for an OS installation. If it is generally suitable the user is prompted if they
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<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v261"/></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>--device-auto</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Automatically pick the target disk instead of prompting for it or taking it from the
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command line. The tool watches the block devices of the system (via udev) and waits for the list of
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candidate disks to settle: the timeout configured with <option>--device-auto-timeout=</option>
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starts at invocation and is restarted whenever a block device appears, disappears or changes. Once
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it expires without further changes, the single candidate disk present at that moment is selected as
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installation target. If no candidate disk is present when the timeout expires, or if at any time
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more than one candidate disk is present, the installation fails. Candidate disks are those
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-repart</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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would offer in the interactive prompt (i.e. that support partition scanning, are writable, not the
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disk the running system is booted from, and contain a medium). If the disk the running system is
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booted from cannot be determined – and hence cannot reliably be excluded from the candidate set –
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the automatic selection is refused. Cannot be combined with an explicitly
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specified block device. This is primarily useful together with <option>--confirm=no</option>,
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<option>--erase=</option> and <option>--variables=</option>, for fully unattended
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installations.</para>
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<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v263"/></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>--device-auto-timeout=</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Configures the settle timeout for <option>--device-auto</option>, i.e. for how long
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the list of candidate disks must remain unchanged before a disk is selected. Takes a time span, see
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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Defaults to 30s.</para>
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<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v263"/></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>--welcome=</option></term>
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