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That is not a great solution
I would look into actual deployment tools. Stuff like Ignition, cloud-init and Ansible and your friend.
Oh yeah, we only want to pre-configure it with a static IP address on its Ethernet port, so that we can SSH into it in a controlled manner and then we intend to do the rest with a deployment tool.
That's not what that is.
You setup Ansible pull or you use something like Cloud init where you provide a declarative config file. I also think Dietpi has something simular