Arch Setup

What does it do?

This is a combination of shell scripts and Ansible playbooks that set up an Arch Linux installation on a Lenovo T14 laptop. It is meant to work in combination with a dotfiles repository. This repository deals with all the stuff that requires root or is non-user specific.

Contents (Ansible Roles)

aur-auto-vote

This installs aur-auto-vote which is a tool to automatically vote for AUR packages. It install a SystemD timer that runs automatically.

Installation

TODO: Document Ansible Vault & required fields

• Download a new ISO

• Use Balena Etcher or similar to write the ISO to a USB drive

• Boot the laptop using the USB drive and wait for the command line to appear

• Adjust settings in arch-env.sh (a template is available in arch-env.sh.template)

• Follow the Bootstrap steps

• Run bootstrap-1.sh <IP> on source machine

  • This reboots automatically when there are no errors

• Login and find the IP

• Run bootstrap-2.sh <IP> on source machine

• Reboot

• Run chezmoi dotfiles according to its documentation: https://github.com/lfrancke/dotfiles

• Reinitialize the Chezmoi directory with the SSH protocol: chezmoi cd && git remote set-url origin git@github.com:lfrancke/dotfiles.git

• Reboot

Bootstrap steps

iwctl --passphrase <passphrase> station <device: wlan0> connect <SSID>

passwd
systemctl start sshd

# Find IP:
ip a

Misc

• To get the Fingerprint reader to work currently requires a "testing" firmware: nmikhailov/Validity90#72 (comment)

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks#Move_disk_cache_to_RAM