shizonic / abyss

Another Void Linux bootstrap for UEFI systems.

Abyss

The main purpose of the project is to install a fresh Void Linux system with Full Disk Encryption. It will not install anything you don't need (see below) and will leave the system almost like if you would install it by yourself when following official installation instructions.

To keep things simple, the following choices were made:

• Only UEFI systems are supported (yet?).
• Only glibc is supported (yet?).
• An entire disk is required for the installation.
• Only Btrfs on LUKS is supported.
• Only GRUB bootloader is supported.

After installation you'll end up with a system which you can log in into but there's nothing which can start a graphical session. The only optional package that will be installed is fish-shell which is a runtime dependency and can be removed right away.

Bugs

Right now GRUB is always targetings x86_64-efi systems which prevents installation on non x86-64 machines. This is a bug and will be fixed soonj.

Usage

• Boot from USB drive and install runtime dependencies.
• Clone the repository.
  • Alternatively, download latest sources from here.
• Ajust configuration in the config.fish.
  • Be sure to change SUPER_STRONG_PASSWORD to an actual strong LUSK/user password.
  • If you don't have SSD, then remove ssd from MOUNT_OPTS and disable EXT_TRIM.
• Run ./main.fish after cd'ing into the project root.

Extended Setup

You can also choose to do an extended installation which includes few additional steps:

• Installs and enables a Cron daemon (cronie).
• Installs and enables a NTP daemon (openntpd).
• Installs and enables a syslog daemon (socklog).
• Enables iptables (with shipped rules).
• Enables dhcpcd.
• Enables some sysctl rules for kernel and networking stack hardening.
• Enables TRIM job for SSD.

Each of the steps are optional and can be disabled/enabled in config.fish.

Runtime Dependencies

Before installing the system, install these packages:

• fish-shell - shell to run the script.
• gptfdisk - GPT-compatible partition utility.

After Installation

You should be able to boot into the system and log in with the user which you specified in the configuration file. Now it's time to setup Xorg or Wayland.

For a quick Xorg installation and configuration you can borrow bootstrap script from my dotfiles.

Alternatives

Abyss was inspired by a great voidvault project and provides a subset of it's functionality. Check it out if Abyss doesn't meet your requirements.