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Test with SATA device on bare metal

Configure custom shell interpreter: bash, zsh, ...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Command-line_shell#List_of_shells
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Command-line_shell#Changing_your_default_shell

When the script fails and is reexecuted the following message is showed and the installation cannot continue without a restart.

wipefs: error /dev/sda: probing initialization failled: Device or resource busy

vgchange -a n lvm
crypsetup close lvm
partprobe /dev/sda

Preselect a set of commong packages

ssh, bluethooth, ntfs-3g, dosfstools, exfat, gstreamer, ...
firefox libreoffice calibre, gimp, ...
virtualbox, docker, ...

Test alis with nouveau display drivers on nvidia graphics. Test KMS and hardware acceleration on bare metal.

Configure alis.conf and select nouveau driver:

DISPLAY_DRIVER="!intel !amdgpu !ati !nvidia !nvidia-lts !nvidia-390xx !nvidia-390xx-lts !nvidia-340xx !nvidia-340xx-lts !nouveau"

Hi
I'd like to use alez to setup the zfs for the filesystem which also installs base Arch without anything configured and then use your alis script to configure the system and install the packages you install.

What do you think would be the best approach to modify your script to support that?

I'm thinking I'd just add a variable that if true the partitioning and installing the base system of Arch would not be executed.

What do you think about this idea?

Test alis with ait display drivers on amd graphics. Test KMS and hardware acceleration on bare metal.

Configure alis.conf and select ati driver:

DISPLAY_DRIVER="!intel !amdgpu !ati !nvidia !nvidia-lts !nvidia-390xx !nvidia-390xx-lts !nvidia-340xx !nvidia-340xx-lts !nouveau"

• Dual boot with windows, other distributions
• Not delete everything, specific partitions

Use configured preferences also for the installation instead only for the installed system with arch-chroot.

Just a suggestion for better visibility and a few lines less. (not tested in real installation conditions)

function print_step() {
    STEP=$1
    echo ""
    echo -e "${LIGHT_BLUE}# $STEP step${NC}"
    echo ""
}

function partition() {
    print_step ${FUNCNAME[0]}
....
}

function format() {
    print_step ${FUNCNAME[0]}
...
}

${FUNCNAME[0]} remove the brackets, print_step "partition()" work too

If LVM is enabled, but LUKS encryption is disabled, creating the PV fails:

pvcreate tries to create the volume on /dev/mapper/lvm instead of /dev/sda3

Use gparted in command line mode 1 for create the partitions. This is already the way to create partitions but in a hardcoded way, see 2 and 3.

Create a variable PARTITION_CUSTOM_COMMAND.
Create variable PARTITION_MODE with values auto (as automatic patition, wipe all file system), custom with a custom gparted partition command, and manual (do nothing and use the existing configured).

Create a PARTITION_BIOS for choose the bios parition in non efi systems.
Create a PARTITION_BOOT for choose the boot partition.
Create a PARTITON_ROOT for choose the root partition.

This will allow a install without erasing the DEVICE, possibly allow dual boot with other systems and also resolve #40.

Base this work on #73.

Currently, alis installs nvidia and nvidia-dkms when using DISPLAY_DRIVER=nvidia. However, nvidia-dkms conflicts with nvidia and it should be used only with custom kernels (like linux-zen).

What do you think about use something like:

PACKAGES_DRIVER="nvidia$DRIVER_SUFIX"

Where DRIVER_SUFIX is either empty or -dkms if KERNELS contains a custom kernel.

I'm not sure about nvidia-lts.

add values to the file /boot/loader/entries/archlinux.conf
value="iommu=soft"

line expected: options initrd=initramfs-linux.img root=PARTUUID=ea8a2f82-b2e0-40cc-958c-d14dac083c19 rw iommu=soft

Related to #2

Can`t initialize phisical volume "/dev/mapper/lvm" of volume group "lvm" without -ff
/dev/mapper/lvm: phisical volume not initialized

Test with NVMe device on bare metal

For reference if something goes wrong and as reference for #5

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2853803/in-a-shell-script-echo-shell-commands-as-they-are-executed

Thank you for this script. I've set up the partion section as below. It completes the boot partion and then it exits with the message wipefs no device specified

# partition
DEVICE="/dev/vda" # sata nvme mmc (single)
DEVICE_TRIM="true" # If DEVICE supports TRIM
LVM="false" # True if use LVM for partitioning
PARTITION_ROOT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD="" # LUKS encryption key, if LVM will be user LVM on LUKS. Empty for not use LUKS/encyption. Warning: change it!
PARTITION_ROOT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD_RETYPE=""
FILE_SYSTEM_TYPE="ext4" # (single)
SWAP_SIZE="2GiB" # (single, not supported in btrfs)

In Bash set -vn

Somtimes the mirror or internet conection fails and thus pacman also.

Retry pacman download.

Maybe checking pacman exit error.

Test alis with nvidia display drivers on nvidia graphics on bare metal.

Configure alis.conf and select nvidia driver:

DISPLAY_DRIVER="!intel !amdgpu !ati !nvidia !nvidia-lts !nvidia-390xx !nvidia-390xx-lts !nvidia-340xx !nvidia-340xx-lts !nouveau"

Maybe downloading it or from AUR

Test alis with amdgpu display drivers on amd graphics. Test KMS and hardware acceleration on bare metal.

Configure alis.conf and select amdpu driver:

DISPLAY_DRIVER="!intel !amdgpu !ati !nvidia !nvidia-lts !nvidia-390xx !nvidia-390xx-lts !nvidia-340xx !nvidia-340xx-lts !nouveau"

Test alis with intel display drivers on intel graphics. Test KMS and hardware acceleration on bare metal.

Configure alis.conf and select intel driver:

DISPLAY_DRIVER="!intel !amdgpu !ati !nvidia !nvidia-lts !nvidia-390xx !nvidia-390xx-lts !nvidia-340xx !nvidia-340xx-lts !nouveau"

Maybe relate do #2 and #3

• Do the alis-packages.sh validations at the start of alis.sh to avoid start the installation and fail when packages installation
• Support to manage dotfiles
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles
• Echo the disk device that will be partitioned, implement auto feature with a priority list
• Improve exit and error messages
• Improve error message bios using systemd
  Put in red and a description with what went wrong
• Support qemu virtualization, install drivers/packages a virtuabox and vmware
  https://github.com/classy-giraffe/easy-arch/blob/d539d2f9003996f6c20ba7806086057f57630b73/easy-arch.sh#L15
• Add commands to create a KVM VM or a VirtualBox VM for SS/cloud-init install
  https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-and-manage-kvm-virtual-machines-from-cli
  https://ostechnix.com/enable-uefi-support-for-kvm-virtual-machines-in-linux/
• Add systemd service for pacman cache cleaner
  Allow to select number of backups
• Universal command
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/192249/how-do-i-parse-command-line-arguments-in-bash
  https://www.baeldung.com/linux/bash-parse-command-line-arguments
• Configure EDITOR, PAGER variable
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables

• Create a ncurses wizard to configure alis.conf and start installation in textual mode.
• Ncurses with Vala (ValaNcurses.vala, commands output to file, copy file to installed system?) or with Lanterna and Java 9/10 using jlink
• Alow home in own partition
• GRUB in user locale
• Install a GRUB theme
• Add support to YubiKey on LVM and encyption
• Suspend and Hibernate, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate
• Icon theme (numix), antergos GNOME theme
• GNOME, KDE autologin> ??? gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen true. sudo -u other dbus-launch gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites ... https://askubuntu.com/questions/323776/gsettings-not-working-over-ssh
• Review https://linuxgnublog.org/es/instalacion-de-arch-linux/
• Review https://github.com/erm2587/ArchLinuxInstaller, https://github.com/helmuthdu/aui, https://github.com/MatMoul/archfi/, https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall, https://github.com/helmuthdu/aui/blob/master/lilo, https://github.com/CodigoCristo/arcris
• Support DWM, Bspwm, Openbox, Xmonad
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dwm
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bspwm
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Openbox
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad
• Support Secure Boot
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module
  #194
  https://gist.github.com/huntrar/e42aee630bee3295b2c671d098c81268
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system
• Support Plymouth
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth
• Support fscrypt
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fscrypt
• Support ZFS on root fs
• Support Mac
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mac

wget -o asciinema.zip https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/archive/v2.0.1.zip -O asciinema-2.0.1.zip
bsdtar -x -f asciinema-2.0.1.zip
python3 -m asciinema rec -i 5 alis.asciinema
exit

on Thinkpad Edge 330 with 16GB RAM and SATA-HDD on first boot after install: failed to start light display manager

conf-file:

# Arch Linux Install Script (alis) configuration file
#
# Some values are preceded by a ! character, this means that the value is ignored.
# Some keys accept a single value others accept multiple values as annotated in the comments.

# init
KEYS="es"
LOG="false"

# partition
DEVICE="/dev/sda !/dev/nvme0n1 !/dev/mmcblk0" # sata nvme mmc (single)
DEVICE_TRIM="true" # If DEVICE supports TRIM
LVM="true" # True if use LVM for partitioning
PARTITION_ROOT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD="password" # LUKS encryption key, if LVM will be user LVM on LUKS. Empty for not use LUKS/encryption. Warning: change it!
PARTITION_ROOT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD_RETYPE="password"
FILE_SYSTEM_TYPE="ext4 !btrfs !xfs" # (single)
SWAP_SIZE="!2GiB !4GiB !8GiB" # (single, not supported in btrfs)

# network_install
WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"
WIFI_ESSID="ssid"
WIFI_KEY="password"
WIFI_HIDDEN="true"
PING_HOSTNAME="mirrors.kernel.org"

# install (precede with ! for not install)
PACMAN_MIRROR="https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/\$repo/os/\$arch"
KERNELS="!linux-lts !linux-lts-headers !linux-hardened !linux-hardened-headers !linux-zen !linux-zen-headers" # Additional kernels and headers (multiple)
KERNELS_COMPRESSION="!gzip !bzip2 !lzma !xz !lzop !lz4"

# config
TIMEZONE="/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid"
LOCALE="de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8"
LANG="LANG=de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en"
KEYMAP="KEYMAP=de-latin1"
FONT=""
FONT_MAP=""
HOSTNAME="ThinkPadE330"
ROOT_PASSWORD="password" # Root user password. Warning: change it!
ROOT_PASSWORD_RETYPE="password"

# user
USER_NAME="cw"
USER_PASSWORD="password" # Main user password. Warning: change it!
USER_PASSWORD_RETYPE="password"
ADDITIONAL_USER_NAMES="" # list separated by space
ADDITIONAL_USER_PASSWORDS="" # list separated by space

# bootloader
BOOTLOADER="grub !refind !systemd" # (single)

# desktop
DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT="!gnome !kde xfce !mate !cinnamon !lxde" # (single)
DISPLAY_DRIVER="intel !amdgpu !ati !nvidia !nvidia-lts !nvidia-dkms !nvidia-390xx !nvidia-390xx-lts !nvidia-390xx-dkms !nouveau" # (single)
KMS="false"
DISPLAY_DRIVER_DDX="false"
VULKAN="false"
DISPLAY_DRIVER_HARDWARE_ACCELERATION="false"
DISPLAY_DRIVER_HARDWARE_ACCELERATION_INTEL="!intel-media-driver !libva-intel-driver" # (single)

# packages (all multiple)
PACKAGES_PACMAN_INTERNET="firefox !chromium !apache !nginx !curl !wget !filezilla !sshfs !openssh !transmission-gtk !transmission-qt !amule !geary !thunderbird !empathy !kopete !polari !konversation !liferea !hugo !gnome-boxes"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_MULTIMEDIA="!gthumb !gimp !imagemagick !krita !inkscape !blender !cmus !vlc !easytag !ardour !audacity !ffmpeg !gnome-phone-manager !kdeconnect !gstreamer !gst-plugins-good !gst-plugins-bad !gst-plugins-ugly bluez bluez-utils"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_UTILITIES="!gnome-initial-setup !code !eclipse-java !intellij-idea-community-edition !gradle !maven !lz4 !meld !dosfstools ntfs-3g !exfat-utils"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT="!libreoffice-fresh !calligra !discount !lyx !vim !calibre"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_SECURITY="!rsync !gnupg !keepassxc"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_SCIENCE="!geogebra !octave"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_OTHERS="!klavaro !tmux"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_DEVELOPER="!jdk-openjdk !python !dotnet-sdk !php !rust !go !virtualbox !docker !ansible !vagrant"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM=""

AUR="!yay !aurman"

PACKAGES_AUR_INTERNET="!dropbox"
PACKAGES_AUR_MULTIMEDIA=""
PACKAGES_AUR_UTILITIES=""
PACKAGES_AUR_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT="!wps-office"
PACKAGES_AUR_SECURITY="!freefilesync"
PACKAGES_AUR_SCIENCE=""
PACKAGES_AUR_OTHERS="!gnucash"
PACKAGES_AUR_DEVELOPER=""
PACKAGES_AUR_CUSTOM=""

PACKAGES_PACMAN="$PACKAGES_PACMAN_INTERNET $PACKAGES_PACMAN_MULTIMEDIA $PACKAGES_PACMAN_UTILITIES $PACKAGES_PACMAN_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT $PACKAGES_PACMAN_SECURITY $PACKAGES_PACMAN_SCIENCE $PACKAGES_PACMAN_OTHERS $PACKAGES_PACMAN_DEVELOPER $PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM"
PACKAGES_AUR="$PACKAGES_AUR_INTERNET $PACKAGES_AUR_MULTIMEDIA $PACKAGES_AUR_UTILITIES $PACKAGES_AUR_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT $PACKAGES_AUR_SECURITY $PACKAGES_AUR_SCIENCE $PACKAGES_AUR_OTHERS $PACKAGES_AUR_DEVELOPER $PACKAGES_AUR_CUSTOM"

#reboot
REBOOT="true" 

I have read some threads on the bbs, people there reported issues with xfce and lightdm. Common suggestion is to use lxdm instead.

Do more easy the installation, with fewer commands.
Create a recovery script to enter on a arch-chroot when a update failure or system not booting

Use periodic TRIM for SSD instead continuous TRIM.

Copy used installation configuration to /etc/alis and log to /var/log/alis.log

Hello, after installing there is no Swiss German keyboard in Gnome. Only US keyboard is activated.
The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf does not exists.
After switching via GUI the file is created automatically.

# Written by systemd-localed(8), read by systemd-localed and Xorg. It's
# probably wise not to edit this file manually. Use localectl(1) to
# instruct systemd-localed to update it.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
EndSection

Yaourt development is discontinued, use an alternative

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers
https://linuxgnublog.org/es/instalacion-y-uso-basico-de-aurman/

==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 5.3.7-arch1-2-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
==> ERROR: Hook 'lvm2' cannot be found
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]

Changing the script so in installs the package lvm2, makes it work.

A number of distros (OpenSUSE and Fedora, for example) will configure btrfs subvolumes. Common seems to be separate subvolumes for /, /home, and /var.

Like https://bitly.com/

rEFInd
systemd-boot

Create and copy to /mnt/var/log/alis.log for future reference

https://serverfault.com/questions/103501/how-can-i-fully-log-all-bash-scripts-actions

Update installation script to new packages

Recollect and include in the README and bash scripts the reference pages ot the Arch Linux wiki

This message is shown and the startup is launched to a UEFI shell when installing on VirtualBox

"Not a Secure Boot Platform 14"

See:

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=228336
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Installation_in_EFI_mode

Thank you for this useful script :)

I am using locales

en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8 for LC_TIME
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in general

I can hack LC_TIME into LANG config variable:

LANG="LANG=en_US.UTF-8\nLC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8"

but I cannot generate more than one locale

Test alis using wifi connection on bare metal.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Fastboot

Se podría agregar una opción para hacer una instalación con /boot encriptado??

Test with MMC device on bare metal