Contains installations scripts for Arch Linux and Gentoo. Please only use if:
- You're comfortable with using scripts that are:
- a work in progress
- from someone random on the internet
- You have already done non-graphical installations a few times.
- You are comfortable debugging bash scripts
NOTE: Partitioning and formatting isn't covered yet, as screwing that up is a big no no.
I still don't have the use case for these scripts well defined, so it may evolve with time, but this is what I'm trying to accomplish:
Currently the top priority is clarity, after that its sanity.
For example:
while wifi-menu is easier to use,
I have been bitten by it too many times,
and prefer using wpa_supplicant directly instead.
Maybe with each script include a .txt file explaining commands and their flags, while referencing documentation (wiki or man).
Understand Consequences of:
- Repeating an
installation_stepseveral times. Does it break anything? - Difference between:
- doing all in one session,
- and logging out inbetween functions
Try to get a bootable installation as quickly as possible. Before when I was using Arch, I would try to get everything (ie a Desktop Enviroment) installed with pacstrap. It felt great booting into your system for the first time, and not being greeted by a console demanding more work. However if you're using a source-based distros this will diffentively not scale. So in order to maintain an uniform structure, the installation of things not required to boot will not be included.
- locale related stuff
- log installation (maybe, since you don't have anything to log yet)
- If you have multiple partitions: fstab and maybe initramfs
- If an essential partition isn't ext4: the needed filesystem package installed