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Install Artix Linux on btrfs (w/ swapfile) with rEFInd bootloader
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # 0 - Log in as root (password is artix) | |
| sudo su | |
| # 1 - SSH | |
| # This isn't necessary but if you ssh into the computer all the other steps are copy and paste | |
| # Get network access | |
| connmanctl | |
| """ | |
| # First, list all technologies: | |
| connmanctl> technologies | |
| # Then, enable technology if it is not enabled | |
| connmanctl> enable <technology> | |
| # Then, to scan for services: | |
| connmanctl> scan <technology> | |
| # You can then list all available services: | |
| connmanctl> services | |
| # Finally, to connect to a service (use tab completion): | |
| connmanctl> connect <service> | |
| """ | |
| # Start the ssh daemon | |
| ln -s /etc/runit/sv/sshd/ /etc/runit/runsvdir/default/ | |
| sv start sshd | |
| # 2 - Partitioning: | |
| cfdisk /dev/sda | |
| # sda1 = /boot, sda2 = root | |
| # /dev/sda1 512M EFI System | |
| # /dev/sda2 (the rest) Linux Filesystem | |
| # 3 - Formatting the partitions: | |
| # the first one is our ESP partition, so for now we just need to format it | |
| mkfs.vfat -F32 -n "EFI" /dev/sda1 | |
| mkfs.btrfs -L ROOT /dev/sda2 | |
| # 4 - Create and Mount Subvolumes | |
| # Create subvolumes for root, home, the package cache, snapshots and the entire Btrfs file system | |
| mount /dev/sda2 /mnt | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@artix | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@home | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@swap | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@btrfs | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@srv | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@log | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@tmp | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@abs | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@pkg | |
| btrfs sub create /mnt/@snapshots | |
| umount /mnt | |
| # Mount the subvolumes | |
| # Change space_cache to space_cache=v2 if there are errors | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@artix /dev/sda2 /mnt | |
| mkdir -p /mnt/{boot,home,swap,btrfs,srv,tmp,.snapshots,var/{log,tmp,abs,cache/pacman/pkg}} | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@home /dev/sda2 /mnt/home | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@srv /dev/sda2 /mnt/srv | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@log /dev/sda2 /mnt/var/log | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@tmp /dev/sda2 /mnt/var/tmp | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@abs /dev/sda2 /mnt/var/abs | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@pkg /dev/sda2 /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvol=@snapshots /dev/sda2 /mnt/.snapshots | |
| mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,commit=120,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,autodefrag,subvolid=5 /dev/sda2 /mnt/btrfs | |
| mount -o compress=no,space_cache,ssd,discard=async,subvol=@swap /dev/sda2 /mnt/swap | |
| mount -t tmpfs -o rw,nosuid,nodev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime,mode=1777,size=8G /dev/sda2 /mnt/tmp | |
| # Create Swapfile | |
| SWAPFILE=/mnt/swap/swapfile | |
| truncate -s 0 $SWAPFILE | |
| chattr +C $SWAPFILE | |
| btrfs property set $SWAPFILE compression none | |
| fallocate -l 16G $SWAPFILE | |
| chmod 600 $SWAPFILE | |
| mkswap $SWAPFILE | |
| swapon $SWAPFILE | |
| # Mount the EFI partition | |
| mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot | |
| # 5 Base System and /etc/fstab | |
| # (this is the time where you change the mirrorlist, if that's your thing) | |
| # (Optional) Enable parallel downloads for basestrap | |
| sed -i 's/^#ParallelDownloads.*/ParallelDownloads = 5/' /etc/pacman.conf | |
| # Base system packages | |
| basestrap /mnt base base-devel runit elogind-runit linux-firmware btrfs-progs zstd \ | |
| neovim micro zsh libvirt qemu docker git man chrony-runit cronie-runit | |
| # Kernel - you can choose any (linux linux-lts linux-hardened linux-zen etc...) | |
| basestrap /mnt linux-zen linux-zen-headers | |
| # CPU Microcode (replace with intel-ucode if using intel CPU) | |
| basestrap /mnt amd-ucode | |
| # AMD GPU drivers | |
| basestrap /mnt amdgpu mesa vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau xf86-video-amdgpu | |
| # Nvidia GPU drivers | |
| # Replace nvidia-dkms with: | |
| # nvidia - if using linux kernel | |
| # nvidia-lts - if using linux-lts kernel | |
| # There is also lib32-nvidia-utils and lib32-nvidia-libgl packages | |
| # available in lib32/multilib repos. Also if you choose to install | |
| # other init system, there is nvidia-utils-initsystem available, | |
| # for example nvidia-utils-openrc | |
| basestrap /mnt nvidia-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-utils nvidia-libgl | |
| # Arch repositories support | |
| basestrap /mnt archlinux-mirrorlist artix-archlinux-support | |
| # Bootloader, AUR packages and packages that are not in | |
| # Artix repositories will be installed later on | |
| # generate the fstab | |
| fstabgen -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab | |
| # add /tmp as tmpfs in fstab | |
| cat << EOF >> /etc/fstab | |
| tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 | |
| EOF | |
| # 6 System Configuration | |
| # chroot into the new system | |
| artix-chroot /mnt | |
| # - set locale | |
| export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" | |
| export LC_COLLATE="C" | |
| echo 'LANG="$LANG"' > /etc/locale.conf | |
| echo "KEYMAP=us" > /etc/vconsole.conf | |
| echo "en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen | |
| locale-gen | |
| # - set root password | |
| passwd | |
| # Replace username with the name for your new user | |
| export USER=username | |
| # Replace hostname with the name for your host | |
| export HOST=hostname | |
| # Replace Europe/London with your Region/City | |
| export TZ="Europe/London" | |
| # - set timezone | |
| ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime | |
| hwclock --systohc | |
| # - set hostname | |
| echo $HOST > /etc/hostname | |
| # - set hosts | |
| cat << EOF >> /etc/hosts | |
| # | |
| 127.0.0.1 localhost | |
| ::1 localhost | |
| 127.0.1.1 $HOST.localdomain $HOST | |
| EOF | |
| # - add user | |
| useradd -mg users -G wheel,storage,power,docker,libvirt,kvm -s /bin/zsh $USER | |
| passwd $USER | |
| echo "$USER ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers | |
| # Set 0 to always ask sudo password . | |
| echo "Defaults timestamp_timeout=300" >> /etc/sudoers | |
| # - Preventing snapshot slowdowns | |
| echo 'PRUNENAMES = ".snapshots"' >> /etc/updatedb.conf | |
| # 6 - fix the mkinitcpio.conf to contain what we actually need. | |
| sed -i 's/^BINARIES=()/BINARIES=("\/usr\/bin\/btrfs")/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | |
| # If using amdgpu and would like earlykms | |
| # sed -i 's/MODULES=()/MODULES=(amdgpu)/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | |
| # If using nvidia and would like earlykms | |
| # sed -i 's/MODULES=()/MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#COMPRESSION="lz4"/COMPRESSION="lz4"/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=()/COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=(-9)/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | |
| # if you have more than 1 btrfs drive | |
| # sed -i 's/^HOOKS/HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block resume btrfs filesystems keyboard fsck)/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | |
| # else | |
| sed -i 's/^HOOKS.*/HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block resume filesystems keyboard fsck)/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | |
| # Replace with your kernel | |
| mkinitcpio -p linux-zen | |
| # 7 Add Arch repositories | |
| cat << EOF >> /etc/pacman.conf | |
| [lib32] | |
| Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | |
| # unofficial artix repos | |
| [universe] | |
| Server = https://universe.artixlinux.org/\$arch | |
| Server = https://mirror1.artixlinux.org/universe/\$arch | |
| Server = https://mirror.pascalpuffke.de/artix-universe/\$arch | |
| Server = https://artixlinux.qontinuum.space:4443/universe/os/\$arch | |
| [omniverse] | |
| Server = http://omniverse.artixlinux.org/\$arch | |
| # stable arch repos | |
| [extra] | |
| Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch | |
| [multilib] | |
| Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch | |
| [community] | |
| Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch | |
| EOF | |
| pacman-key --populate archlinux | |
| # Misc options | |
| sed -i 's/^#UseSyslog/UseSyslog/' /etc/pacman.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#Color/Color\nILoveCandy/' /etc/pacman.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#TotalDownload/TotalDownload/' /etc/pacman.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#CheckSpace/CheckSpace/' /etc/pacman.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#ParallelDownloads.*/ParallelDownloads = 5/' /etc/pacman.conf | |
| # 8 Optimize Makepkg | |
| # Install compressors and bootloader | |
| pacman -Syy pigz pbzip2 refind | |
| # Configure Makepkg | |
| # Use these commands to configure /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| perl -i -0777 -pe 's/^CFLAGS=".*?"/CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fno-plt"/sm' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^CXXFLAGS.*/CXXFLAGS="\$CFLAGS"/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#RUSTFLAGS.*/RUSTFLAGS="-C opt-level=2 -C target-cpu=native"/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#BUILDDIR.*/BUILDDIR=\/tmp\/makepkg/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i "s/^#MAKEFLAGS.*/MAKEFLAGS=\"-j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --quiet\"/" /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSGZ=.*/COMPRESSGZ=(pigz -c -f -n)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSBZ2=.*/COMPRESSBZ2=(pbzip2 -c -f)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i "s/^COMPRESSXZ=.*/COMPRESSXZ=(xz -T \"$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)\" -c -z --best -)/" /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSZST=.*/COMPRESSZST=(zstd -c -z -q --ultra -T0 -22 -)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSLRZ=.*/COMPRESSLRZ=(lrzip -9 -q)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSLZO=.*/COMPRESSLZO=(lzop -q --best)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSZ=.*/COMPRESSZ=(compress -c -f)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSLZ4=.*/COMPRESSLZ4=(lz4 -q --best)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^COMPRESSLZ=.*/COMPRESSLZ=(lzip -c -f)/' /etc/makepkg.conf | |
| # Here is what it should look like | |
| # Instead of $() statements there should be an output of the commands inside | |
| ' | |
| CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fno-plt" | |
| CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" | |
| RUSTFLAGS="-C opt-level=2 -C target-cpu=native" | |
| BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg | |
| MAKEFLAGS="-j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --quiet" | |
| COMPRESSGZ=(pigz -c -f -n) | |
| COMPRESSBZ2=(pbzip2 -c -f) | |
| COMPRESSXZ=(xz -T "$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)" -c -z --best -) | |
| COMPRESSZST=(zstd -c -z -q --ultra -T0 -22 -) | |
| COMPRESSLRZ=(lrzip -9 -q) | |
| COMPRESSLZO=(lzop -q --best) | |
| COMPRESSZ=(compress -c -f) | |
| COMPRESSLZ4=(lz4 -q --best) | |
| COMPRESSLZ=(lzip -c -f) | |
| ' | |
| # 10 Install bootloader | |
| refind-install | |
| # 11 Pacman Hooks | |
| mkdir /etc/pacman.d/hooks | |
| cat << EOF > /etc/pacman.d/hooks/refind.hook | |
| [Trigger] | |
| Operation=Upgrade | |
| Type=Package | |
| Target=refind | |
| [Action] | |
| Description = Updating rEFInd on ESP | |
| When=PostTransaction | |
| Exec=/usr/bin/refind-install | |
| EOF | |
| cat << EOF > /etc/pacman.d/hooks/zsh.hook | |
| [Trigger] | |
| Operation=Install | |
| Operation=Upgrade | |
| Operation=Remove | |
| Type=Path | |
| Target=/usr/bin/* | |
| [Action] | |
| Depends = zsh | |
| When=PostTransaction | |
| Exec=/usr/bin/install -Dm644 /dev/null /var/cache/zsh/pacman | |
| EOF | |
| # If using Nvidia GPU | |
| # Change the linux part in Target and Exec lines if a different kernel is used. | |
| # Also change the nvidia-dkms part if using a different kernel. | |
| cat << EOF > /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook | |
| [Trigger] | |
| Operation=Install | |
| Operation=Upgrade | |
| Operation=Remove | |
| Type=Package | |
| Target=nvidia-dkms | |
| Target=linux-zen | |
| [Action] | |
| Description=Update Nvidia module in initcpio | |
| Depends=mkinitcpio | |
| When=PostTransaction | |
| NeedsTargets | |
| Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do case \$trg in linux-zen) exit 0; esac; done; /usr/bin/mkinitcpio linux-zen' | |
| EOF | |
| cat << EOF > /etc/udev/rules.d/60-ioschedulers.rules | |
| # set scheduler for NVMe | |
| ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="nvme[0-9]*", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none" | |
| # set scheduler for SSD and eMMC | |
| ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]|mmcblk[0-9]*", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="mq-deadline" | |
| # set scheduler for rotating disks | |
| ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="1", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="bfq" | |
| EOF | |
| # 12 Configure bootloader | |
| # Replace 1920 1080 with your monitors resolution | |
| sed -i 's/^#resolution 3/resolution 1920 1080/' /boot/EFI/refind/refind.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#use_graphics_for.*/use_graphics_for linux/' /boot/EFI/refind/refind.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#scanfor.*/scanfor manual,external,internal/' /boot/EFI/refind/refind.conf | |
| sed -i 's/^#dont_scan_files.*/dont_scan_files vmlinuz-linux-zen/' /boot/EFI/refind/refind.conf | |
| # add the PARTUUID of the root partition to the "root=" option (example below) | |
| cat << EOF >> /boot/EFI/refind/refind.conf | |
| menuentry "Artix Linux" { | |
| icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_arch.png | |
| volume ROOT | |
| loader /vmlinuz-linux-zen | |
| initrd /initramfs-linux-zen.img | |
| options "root=PARTUUID=$(blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/sda2) rootflags=subvol=@artix rw quiet console=tty2 nmi_watchdog=0 add_efi_memmap initrd=\amd-ucode.img" | |
| submenuentry "Boot - fallback" { | |
| initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img | |
| } | |
| } | |
| EOF | |
| # 13 Continue installing packages | |
| su $USER | |
| cd ~ | |
| git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git | |
| cd paru | |
| makepkg -si | |
| cd .. | |
| sudo rm -dR paru | |
| # At this point you may install any packages you need from AUR or official repositories. | |
| sudo pacman -S snapper networkmanager-runit network-manager-applet openssh-runit \ | |
| zsh-autosuggestions zsh-history-substring-search zsh-syntax-highlighting \ | |
| libimobiledevice usbutils xorg xorg-xinit awesome pipewire pipewire-alsa \ | |
| pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack pipewire-media-session pasystray pavucontrol \ | |
| sudo paru -S kitty-git dashbinsh | |
| # If you use a bare git to store dotfiles install them now | |
| # git clone --bare https://github.com/user/repo.git $HOME/.repo | |
| exit | |
| # 14 - reboot into your new install | |
| exit | |
| swapoff -a | |
| umount -R /mnt | |
| reboot | |
| # 15 - After instalation | |
| sudo ln -s /etc/runit/sv/{NetworkManager,sshd,chrony,cronie} /etc/runit/runsvdir/default | |
| sudo sv start NetworkManager sshd chrony cronie | |
| sudo umount /.snapshots | |
| sudo rm -r /.snapshots | |
| sudo snapper -c root create-config / | |
| sudo mount -a | |
| sudo chmod 750 -R /.snapshots |
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