for the Raspberry Pi (1!): Arch Linux ARM to SD Card Script; See https://gist.github.com/pklaus/9dd4a7bf040788cda501 for RPi 2

rpi-arch-linux-to-sdcard.sh

#!/bin/bash

# <http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi>

echo -e "\n\nArch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi to SD Card\n"
echo -e "Not meant for the Raspberry Pi 2 - \n"
echo -e " Check https://gist.github.com/pklaus/9dd4a7bf040788cda501 instead.\n\n"

echo -e "\nAll drives on this computer:\n"
ls -1 /dev/sd?

echo -e "\nLast messages in syslog:\n"
dmesg | tail

echo -e "\nChoose sd card (like /dev/sdX):\n"
read SDCARD

echo -e "\nYou chose $SDCARD\nAre you sure to continue? Press Ctrl-C to abort!"
read

if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi

cd /tmp

echo "Removing any downloaded and leftover Arch Linux ARM image"
rm ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz

echo -e "\nDownloading the Arch Linux ARM root filesystem:\n"
wget http://de7.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz
# usually this mirror (^) is much faster than the main download server:
#wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Could not download the image file, please check the mirror"
  exit 1
fi

echo -e "\nUnmounting partitions found on ${SDCARD}\n"
for MOUNT in ${SDCARD}?
do
  echo $MOUNT
  umount $MOUNT
done

parted -s $SDCARD unit s print
parted -s $SDCARD mktable msdos
parted -s $SDCARD mkpart primary fat32 8192s 128MiB
parted -s $SDCARD mkpart primary 128MiB 100%
parted -s $SDCARD unit s print

mkfs.vfat ${SDCARD}1
mkfs.ext4 ${SDCARD}2

mkdir boot
mkdir root

mount ${SDCARD}1 boot
mount ${SDCARD}2 root

echo -e "\nExtracting the root filesystem\n"
bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz -C root
sync

echo -e "\nMoving boot files to the first partition\n"
mv root/boot/* boot

echo -e "\nUnmounting the two partitions\n"
umount boot root

rmdir boot root

echo "Insert the SD card into the Raspberry Pi, connect ethernet, and apply 5V power."
echo "Use the serial console or SSH to the IP address given to the board by your router. The username/password combination is alarm/alarm. The default root password is 'root'."

cd -