This is for me, to make setting up a new computer as swift as possible. Perhaps it will be useful to someone else. But mainly it's public to make it easier for me to get hold of it, without needing to authenticate my identity on a computer not yet set up.
I begin by installing Debian
without any desktop environment, and then manually install the xorg
graphical server and i3 tiling/window
manager, build the ly TUI login
manager, and only then switch to a
very minimal graphical environment.
But when I say 'manually', all I mean is that the way I want things setup isn't one of the Debian installer's default options. So these scripts are my attempt to simplify things.
Having installed Debian with no desktop environment -- and I'm assuming there's a working ethernet connection to the internet --
First, login as root, and:
who=peterprescott
apt install -y git
cd /home/$who
git clone https://github.com/$who/new-machine
./new-machine/grant-sudo.sh $who
Now that git and sudo are installed, and I've been given sudo
rights, I can exit, and login as myself, and:
./new-machine/start.sh
This should then run various scripts to:
- setup my .dotfiles;
- install the other basic system tools I need as soon as possible;
- download the vim-plug plug-in manager I still use;
- update
grubto avoid the annoying blue screen when Debian loads; - clone the
lyrepo, make and install; - try various strategies to silence those ear-splitting terminal beeps;
- install Miniconda;
- install Brave browser;
- install the Github CLI;
- install Docker;
- connect to WiFi.
If everything is working perfectly, nothing else should be required. Just reboot and it will load in graphical mode.
Even if everything's not working perfectly, those scripts should help give an idea of how to do the things I want to do.