archinstall.bash

# My attempt at the entire archlinux install on one script as documentation. Don't actually run this lol.
# I'm not including keyboard layouts because no.
# If you don't have this, boot correctly dammit.
ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

# Enter iwctl to setup the wifi.
iwctl

# Get the device names
device list

# Get the networks from the station
station <device> get-networks

# Use iwctl to connect to your network.
iwctl --passphrase <passphrase> station <device> connect <SSID>

# time stuff
timedatectl set-ntp true

# I'm not assuming what hardware you have. Partition on your own with cfdisk.
# Example layouts: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning#Example_layouts
cfdisk /dev/sda
mkfs.ext /dev/root_partition
mkswap /dev/swap_partition
swapon /dev/swap_partition

# Usually defaults to /dev/sda1
mount /dev/root_partition /mnt

# I'm guessing your mirrorlist is already good. if not, edit it with vim after running "pacman -S vim", then "vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist". No need to sudo pacman because you're already root, dummy. Pacstrap all the required things afterward.
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware man-db man-pages texinfo networkmanager vim

# Stab your gen.
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

# Time to break everything. Remember to reconnect to your wifi with iwctl.
arch-chroot /mnt

# Bunch of random crap.
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime && hwclock --systohc && locale-gen

# vim stuff.
vim /etc/locale.conf # put "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" (without quotes, obv.

# I'm not going to set a different keyboard layout. Good luck with that.
# Oh boy! Hostname stuff!
vim /etc/hostname # Put name of computer in here. That's all.
vim /etc/hosts # Every quote here goes on a different line: "127.0.0.1    localhost" "::1        localhost" "127.0.1.1    hostname_from_other_file.localdomain hostname_from_other_file"

# Set dat password.
passwd

# Install microcode, bootloader, and other useful stuff like your entire desktop. Asumming you have an intel processor. Docs here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode#Installation. Also installing grub bootloader. Other stuff comes later.
pacman -Sy intel-ucode grub

# Actually install grub thingy.
grub-install --target=x86_64 && grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

# Install desktop stuff. Will probably work. 
pacman -Sy sddm xorg plasma kde-applications i3 nvidia

# configure the users.
useradd -m someusername
passwd someusername

# Sudo stuff
pacman -Sy sudo
usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage someusername
visudo # scroll down to line "%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL" and remove comment.

# At this point you're on your own. I don't know what problems you're going to run into.
exit
umount -R /mnt
reboot # glhf