neilmehra / archsetup

Pre install

• make partition on windows
• disable secure boot (bios)
• disable fast startup (ctrl panel -> power options -> faststartup)
• disable hibernation (powercfg.exe /hibernate off)
• download arch iso from mirror
• boot into live environment

Install

Networking

iwctl
device list
station wlan0 scan
station wlan0 get-networks
station wlan0 connect test

or

iwctl --passphrase NETWORK-PASSWORD station DEVICE-NAME connect NETWORK-NAME

Clock

timedatectl set-ntp true

Disk setup

Make root & swap partitions

cfdisk /dev/disk_to_use

mkfs.ext4 /dev/root_partition
mkswap /dev/swap_partition 
swapon /dev/swap_partition 
mount /dev/root_partition /mnt 
mount --mkdir /dev/efi_partition /mnt/efi

Install system

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt

System configuration

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
pacman -Sy neovim

Edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8.

Generate locale:

locale-gen

Create /etc/locale.conf and write the following line:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Edit /etc/hostname, and write name of machine on network

Edit /etc/hosts to look like this

127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	koawa.localdomain	koawa

where koawa = your hostname

User configuration

Create user, set user passwd, set root passwd

useradd -G wheel,audio,video -m USERNAME
passwd USERNAME
passwd

Grub

pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober

Edit /etc/default/grub and uncomment GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Install grub

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi/ --bootloader-id=GRUB
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Post Install

Sudo

pacman -S sudo
ln -s /usr/bin/nvim /usr/bin/vi

Add these two lines in sudoers file using visudo

root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
neil ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Edit the faillock config to disable lockout just personal preference on my desktop, probably not advisable nvim /etc/security/faillock.conf and set deny = 0

Networking

pacman -S networkmanager  wpa_supplicant
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

Reboot

nmcli d 
nmcli r wifi on 
nmcli d wifi list 
nmcli d wifi connect WIFI_SSID_HERE password --YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE

yay

pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si

zsh

pacman -S zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install necessary packages

yay -S --needed - < ./packages/xorg
yay -S --needed - < ./packages/required
yay -S --needed - < ./packages/audio
yay -S --needed - < ./packages/fonts

Enable TRIM for SSD's

systemctl enable fstrim.timer

Configure pacman

Refer to /etc/pacman.conf Uncomment the following lines for multilib support

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Enable these four lines for:

• colored output
• pacman animation
• listing packages in a verbose, tabular format when updating
• downloading packages in parallel

Color
ILoveCandy
VerbosePkgLists
ParallelDownloads = 5

Set up dotfiles

git clone https://github.com/asiankoala/dotfiles
cd dotfiles
bombadil install
bombadil link -p bspwm

Configure zsh

zsh-autosuggestions

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Add zsh-autosuggestions to plugins list in ~/.zshrc (already done if following dots)

zsh-syntax-highlighting

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Add zsh-syntax-highlighting to the end of plugins list (already done if following dots)

Minimal theme

git clone https://github.com/subnixr/minimal.git  ${ZSH_CUSTOM}/themes/minimal
ln -s ${ZSH_CUSTOM}/themes/minimal/minimal.zsh ${ZSH_CUSTOM}/themes/minimal.zsh-theme

Set ZSH to be the default shell chsh -s $(which zsh)

Autologin

Create a file with the following contests at /etc/systemd/system/[e-mail].d/autologin.conf

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -f -- \\u' --noclear --autologin neil - $TERM

Automatic X11 start should be configured with dotfiles

X11 Device configs

Copy files from dotfiles/x11/device/ to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Polybar fonts

Copy everything from ./packages/polybar-fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts (need to integrate this with AUR later but kinda lazy rn)

Configure your screen

Use arandr and configure screen variables in ~/dotfiles/vars.toml

TODO

• thunderbird theme
• test setup script
• xdg dirs/auto mkdir all dirs
• github ssh
• gtk themes
• fix fonts being diff

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