Raspberry Pi OS:
Write Image to SDcard. Add empty file named 'ssh' to sdcard root.
Ref.: https://hackernoon.com/raspberry-pi-headless-install-462ccabd75d0
Alpine Linux:
Extract Image to local disk. Create apkovl.tar.gz overlay file that sets up networking and ssh.
Put file to the root of the sdcard.
In the same way it's possible to create a apkovl.tar.gz overlay file that runs setup-alpine with pre-made answerfile.
Ref.: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_-_Headless_Installation
Ref.: https://docs.alpinelinux.org/user-handbook/0.1a/Installing/setup_alpine.html#_answer_files
Fedora and CentOS with anaconda:
Write kickstart file and point to it via inst.ks=</path/to/ks.cfg> boot parameter
SSH keys and password need to be setup in ks.cfg file and activated via inst.sshd bootparameter
VNC can be activated via inst.vnc and inst.vncpassword=<password>
Ref.: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/install-guide/advanced/Boot_Options/
Ref.: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/install-guide/advanced/Kickstart_Installations/
Ref.: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/install-guide/appendixes/Kickstart_Syntax_Reference/#appe-kickstart-syntax-reference
Ref.: https://linuxconfig.org/automating-linux-installations-with-kickstart
openSUSE with YaST:
Boot Parameter: vnc=1 vncpassword=<password> ssh=1 and ssh.password=<passoword>
Unattend install via autoinst.xml file and autoyast=<URL> boot-parameter to said file
Ref.: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/single-html/book.opensuse.startup/index.html#sec-boot-parameters-list
Ref.: https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/YaST/openSUSE10.3/autoinstall/createprofile.scripts.html
Ref.: https://documentation.suse.com/sles/11-SP4/html/SLES-all/book-autoyast.html