sdm VS pi-firstrun

I would look to use SDM from Benn on Github https://github.com/gitbls/sdm as this will give you more control and configuration options.

As previously mentioned, you can network install or boot them. If you start down that path and find it to be a bit "much", you might want to consider https://github.com/gitbls/sdm.

Possibly look at Ansible or SDM

Slightly OT to your question, but if you're going to distribute an IMG you probably want it to be virgin (not ever booted), so you don't accidentally leave something important there. Have a look at https://github.com/gitbls/sdm, which makes it easy to customize an unbooted IMG exactly the way you want it.

Hi, what "is not so easy to get it work"?? If you're referring to using sdm and you're having a problem with it, please open an issue on the sdm github https://github.com/gitbls/sdm and I'll help you get it working.

You can see the code at https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/sdm-cportal. Oh, and it's written so that it can work with or without the rest of sdm, which it's part of.

There is a tool on Github (and supported on the Pi forums) by bls called SDM (here) that can be modified to set up anything you want but I think that's Linux only.

Seehttps://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=231762 for a description of the technique and https://github.com/gitbls/sdm for a tool that uses this technique to customize and manage IMGs and SD Cards, as well as "going inside" the IMG with the sdm --explore command.

Non-beginners might want to take a look at https://github.com/gitbls/sdm.

Could you create a start up script to do the rename etc for you - possibly using the MAC address as a key? See this GitHub code or this GitHub code as a starting point.