badele/archlinux-auto-install

Automatically install archlinux (from livecd with Ventoy tools)

archlinux-auto-install

DO NOT EDIT DIRECTLY THIS README.MD (edit the README.tpl) and execute make doc-generate

Automatic installation of Archlinux for vagrants and physical hosts.

This project install minimal Archlinux from scratch, other packages and configuration are done with ansible

Image contains :

• Archlinux 2021.04.01
• Encrypted LUKS disk (for vagrant, the password is vagrant)
• grub and grub-theme
• networkmanager
• yay package (for installaling AUR packages)
• git for clonning some project (ex: ansible-archlinux)
• ansible (for customize automatically your installation)

Vagrant box

Logo	Name	Description
	Archlinux	Base Archlinux version
	Ansible	Archlinux + Ansible support
	Nixos	Archlinux + Nix support

Help(commands)

archlinux-versions   List all archlinux versions
doc-generate         Generate main Readme commands list
help                 This help
toolkit              Homelab toolkit(for building a homelab stack)
vagrant-build        [ARCHVERSION] <NAME> Build vagrant box 
vagrant-destroy      Destroy vagrant box [ARCHVERSION] <NAME>
vagrant-push         Push vagrant box [ARCHVERSION] <NAME>
vagrant-ssh          Connect to vagrant box [ARCHVERSION] <NAME>
vagrant-up           Test vagrant box [ARCHVERSION] <NAME>

Build

make archlinux-versions
make NAME=base vagrant-build
make NAME=ansible vagrant-build
make NAME=nix vagrant-build

make NAME=base vagrant-up
make NAME=base vagrant-ssh
make NAME=base vagrant-destroy

Host

From booted archlinux live cd (use ventoy)

# configure wireless
iwctl device list
iwctl station <device> scan
iwctl station <device> get-networks
iwctl station <device> connect <SSID>

# Clone
rm -f /var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db
pacman -Sy git
git clone https://github.com/badele/archlinux-auto-install.git
cd archlinux-auto-install

# Set installation configuration
cp config/xxx > install/config
vim install/config
./install/install.sh

Usage

# From vagrant cloud
vagrant init badele/ansiblearch && vagrant up

Use case

Install 99% of Achlinux automatically, it installs it in less than two minutes. After installed the minimal arch, you can customized with ansible and dotfiles

• ansible-archlinux
• dotfiles

Thanks

Thanks to zenithar for his documentation https://blog.zenithar.org/post/2020/04/01/archlinux-efi-ssd-luks2-lvm2-btrfs/

Information for vagrant cloud project page

• github archlinux-auto-install project

archlinux-auto-install's Issues

error-exception handling on the existence of the config file

Even though it's already described at README that you should copy the config file, the install.sh could warn either way if there is no install/config file instead of going ahead with the install process, which, of course, will fail.

To be honest, I never used Vagrant. Hell.. I don't even know what it's about. lol That being said, I only saw the vagrant.sample at the config folder so I automatically didn't copy it and tried to run the install.sh either way to see what happens. There is no error-exception handling there.

Despite my dumbness, the rest went really well. Good job.

We should be able to choose the locale it's going to be installed.

Here It was installed with fr_FR.UTF-8 with the french layout as well. Usually, that's not a problem, but, for example, I had to press a to get the q.