arch-linux-provisioner

Provision an Arch Linux installation. Heavily inspired by pigmonkey/spark

How to run

# ansible-playbook -i localhost playbook.yml

initial installation

wifi and time

wifi-menu
timedatectl set-ntp true

disk

Get a list of partitions to determine what needs to be partitoned.

fdisk -l

Open up the target device for partitioning. If you are making a new EFI boot partition make sure it is of type EFI.

cfdisk /dev/device

If you’re making a new EFI boot partition you’ll need to format it.

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/bootpartition

Format the OS partition

mkfs.ext4 /dev/ospartition

Mount the OS and boot partitions

mount /dev/ospartition /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/bootpartition /mnt/boot

base packages

pacstrap /mnt base

fstab

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

time

arch-chroot /mnt
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

locale

Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in locale file
/etc/locale.gen

en_US.UTF-8

Generate locale

locale-gen

Set the LANG variable in locale.conf file
/etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

auto mounting boot partition

Mount the EFI partition on windows by default
/etc/fstab
…

/dev/bootpartition    /boot    vfat    defaults    0 0

intel

pacman -S intel-ucode

network

Create files:

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    ravager
::1        localhost.localdomain    ravager

/etc/hostname

ravager

Install prerequisites for wifi-menu

pacman -S dialog iw wpa_supplicant

bootloader

Install bootloader

bootctl install

Configure bootloader

nano /boot/loader/loader.conf
default  arch
timeout  10
editor   0

Add boot entry

ls --lart /dev/disk/by-partuuid/ | grep /dev/ospartition | cut -d' ' -f10 >> /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title          Arch Linux
linux          /vmlinuz-linux
initrd         /intel-ucode.img
initrd         /initramfs-linux.img
options        root=PARTUUID=[USE OUTPUT OF PREVIOUS COMMAND HERE] rw

password

Set root password

passwd

clean up

umount -R /mnt
reboot

prepare ansible

Install prerequisites

pacman -Syy python2-passlib ansible git openssh

ssh keys

Install id_rsa and id_rsa.pub from usb:

mkdir /tmp/usb
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/usb
cp /tmp/usb/id_rsa* /tmp/
mkdir /root/.ssh/
cp /tmp/id_rsa* /root/.ssh/

clone the ansible repo

cd /root/
git clone git@github.com:ratabora/arch-linux-provisioner.git
cd arch-linux-provisioner
git submodule init && git submodule update

appendix

VMWare

If installing using a VM make sure to boot the VM using EFI before your first boot.