santiagogonzalez-dev / tests

The only purpose of this repository is to test things

Arch Installation

If you are going to use this scripts, please read them and test them on a VM first, all feedback and issues are welcome

Basically boot to the arch live usb. Change layout, and connect to the Wi-Fi

What does the 10-unattended.sh script do

The 10-unnattended.sh script does this: It will install Arch Linux in the drive that you selected to, with luks2 encryption, btrfs and it only works for UEFI systems:

Partition	Size
/boot	333Mb
/	The rest of the drive

The subvolumes are mounted into

Subvolume	Mountpoint
@	/
@home	/home
@pkg	/var/cache/pacman/pkg
@var	/var
@srv	/srv
@tmp	/tmp

Note that if you answered "no" when asked to wipe the drive your subvolume for @home will not be touched. And for the bootloader we are using systemd-boot with systemd hooks since it's simpler. There's also a little 4Gb "partition" that you will see as [SWAP] if you do a quick lsblk, because we are using zram in case that you run out of RAM.

Be aware that the keymap that you choose will be the one used for decrypting the drive

For networking we are using NetworkManager

Also the user that you created was just added to the wheel and users groups

Change layout, and connect to the internet

loadkeys dvorak

iwctl
station wlan0 connect (wifi-ssid)

Getting the script

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/santigo-zero/csjarchlinux/master/10-unattended.sh
chmod +x 10-unattended.sh

Now run the script

It will install everything on the selected drive

./10-unattended.sh && systemctl reboot

And that's pretty much it, the next 20, 21, etc scripts are more personal scripts that you might find useful to set up your environment.

After this your computer should reboot, now you need to execute the second script

The 20-packages.sh script will be pulled by the first script and leave it on the home of the user that you created.

For this second script you should read before executing because it's pulling my dotfiles, so if you don't want that or the packages that I use just skip the script totally and install whatever that you want. There's a few other scripts that you may find useful so check them out.

./20-packages.sh # After this log out so that you enter with zsh and the environment variables setted up

./21-morepackages.sh # This packages are not necessary to have a usable desktop

If you want to use paru as your aur helper (the 25-aur.sh script) and are picky as I am, make sure to check and export $RUSTUP_HOME

echo $RUSTUP_HOME  # To check if it was exported or not
export RUSTUP_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/rustup  # You can put it in your .zshrc or .bashrc afterwards

Without this environment variable rustup will put a directory in your $HOME cluttering it, if you export it, in this case it will get stored in .local/share/rustup so everything it's cleaner, don't forget to add it to your shell rc so after an update you don't have it again in your $HOME.

Things that I need to add to the project

• Update the README with a description for each script.
• Add snapper for rollback functionality #2.
• Add the boot entry creation of snapshots for systemd-boot
• Make the 10-unattended.sh script able to handle different drive names.
• Make the 10-unattended.sh script able to handle different filesystems.
• Make the 10-unattended.sh script able to install Arch Linux without encryption
• Move to systemd-networkd