Prepare Raspbian SD Card (appliance) via sda, do not resize partition at first boot

Move to the root user:

sudo su

Set device:

device=sdc

Since booting from USB can provide more speed I will prepare new raspbain OS through USB (sda):

dd if=2018-10-09-raspbian-stretch-lite.img of=/dev/$device bs=1M status=progress; sync

Create directory for mounting:

mkdir ~/rpi-img

Mount the boot partition:

mount /dev/$(echo $device|sed "s/$/1/") ~/rpi-img

Enable instant SSH access:

touch ~/rpi-img/ssh

I have to remove "init=/usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh" portion from "cmdline.txt". This can be done with:

sed -i "s/.init=\/usr\/lib\/raspi-config\/init_resize.sh//" ~/rpi-img/cmdline.txt

Umount the boot partition:

umount /dev/$(echo $device|sed "s/$/1/")

Mount the main partition:

mount /dev/$(echo $device|sed "s/$/2/") ~/rpi-img

Remove "resize2fs_once":

rm -rf ~/rpi-img/etc/init.d/resize2fs_once

Remove "S01resize2fs_once":

rm -rf ~/rpi-img/etc/rc3.d/S01resize2fs_once

Umount the main (ext4) partition:

umount /dev/$(echo $device|sed "s/$/2/")

Remove tmp dir:

rm -rf ~/rpi-img

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