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>> Or is there a cleaner way to add a additional seed as a one-off with
>> disturbing as little as possible (in the few seconds just after the
>> network is brought up).
>
> If this needs to be done automatically, not really.  If there's a
> person available, you could use the "please type a screen full of
> random junk" approach and feed both the inter-character timings (which
> should be done automatically via IRQ harvesting) and junk into
> /dev/random.
>
why just not put entropy files before installing from image?