ArchLinux Bootstrap Script [non-UEFI]

README.md

Using it

Check for Internet connectivity, get that working.

Then run "pre_arch_chroot.sh" with manual UEFI mods if required. This will ask some confirmations, give it.

And obviously these scripts have my name for 'username', so run following command on both scripts before using.

sed -i 's/abhishekkr/$YOUR_USER_NAME/g' post_arch_chroot.sh

Once it get you to chroot, run "post_arch_chroot.sh".

Most basic set-up

just use "fdisk /dev/sdX" to get your partitions right, use "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdXY" or similar util to format... and get ahead with the provided scripts to get the base set-up.

Package List

all names preceding 'pacman -S' are the package that these scripts will install for you, which are mainly XFCE Desktop Manager, Firefox, Chromium, VLC, MPlayer, Ruby, Python, Haskell, VIM, Lua, VirtualBox, Qemu, Slim Login Manager, Thunar File Manager, etc.

post_arch_chroot.sh

#!bash

echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /etc/locale.gen 
locale-gen 
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime
echo abhishekkr.edu > /etc/hostname
systemctl enable dhcpcd.service

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=2097152
chown root:root /swapfile1 
chmod 0600 /swapfile1 
mkswap /swapfile1
swapon /swapfile1
echo "" | tee -a /etc/fstab
echo "# /swapfile1 swap" | tee -a /etc/fstab
echo "/swapfile1 none swap sw 0 0" | tee -a /etc/fstab

pacman --noconfirm -S ifplugd iw wpa_supplicant dialog syslinux grub
pacman --noconfirm -S freetype2 fuse dosfstools efibootmgr os-prober mtools

syslinux-install_update -i -a -m
sed -i 's/dev\/sda[0-9]/dev\/$1/g' /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg 
grub-install  --recheck /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

passwd

cat >> /etc/pacman.conf << EOFPACMAN

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/\$arch
EOFPACMAN

pacman -Syu

pacman --noconfirm -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit mesa xorg-twm xterm 
pacman --noconfirm -S nouveau-dri xf86-video-nouveau 
pacman --noconfirm -S xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse xorg-xclock
pacman --noconfirm -S ttf-dejavu
pacman --noconfirm -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies
pacman --noconfirm -S connman texlive-core poppler-data
pacman --noconfirm -S vlc mplayer firefox chromium xchat pidgin
pacman --noconfirm -S gnome-do xorg-xprop pcmanfm thunar xmms alsa-plugins pulseaudio tcl 
pacman --noconfirm -S virtualbox qemu libvirt qemu-launcher
pacman --noconfirm -S qt4 vde2 virtualbox-host-dkms net-tools
pacman --noconfirm -S rrdtool hddtemp networkmanager
pacman --noconfirm -S ruby python lua51 usb_modeswitch dhclient dnsmasq bluez4 slim
pacman --noconfirm -S ghostscript tk cups vim zsh git
pacman --noconfirm -S go ghc
pacman --noconfirm -S sudo
pacman --noconfirm -Syu yaourt
pacman --noconfirm -S customizepkg rsync
pacman --noconfirm -S slim-themes

systemctl enable slim.service

cat > ~/.xinitrc << EOFXINIT
#!/bin/bash

exec startxfce4
EOFXINIT

mkdir -p ~/go
echo 'export GOPATH=~/go:$GOPATH' >> /etc/profile.d/go.sh 

useradd abhishekkr
passwd abhishekkr
mkdir -p /home/abhishekkr
chown abhishekkr /home/abhishekkr
usermod -G wheel abhishekkr
echo '%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

cat > /home/abhishekkr/.xinitrc << EOFXINITHOME
#!/bin/bash

exec startxfce4
EOFXINITHOME

chown -R abhishekkr /home/abhishekkr

pre_arch_chroot.sh

#!bash

##### get your internet access ready

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
   echo "SYNTAX: $) <hdddev>"
   exit 1
fi

mkfs.ext4 /dev/$1
mount /dev/$1 /mnt
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash