yasi
yasi is yet another stupid installer for Arch Linux built on top of Ansible playbook.
It is based on boring Arch Linux installation guide and allows to get a minimal bootable ready-to-use Arch Linux installation in several minutes.
Getting started
Remote scenario
- Install Ansible
- Download, burn and boot Arch Linux somewhere, enable SSH and get IP address
- Run
ansible-playbook -i <ip-address>, site.yml, answer questions and be patient
Local scenario
TODO: add local installation scenario
Supported options
Options can be passed to ansible-playbook via -e option=value or -e @path/to/option/file to supress prompts. See man ansible-playbook for more details.
TODO: add description and usage notes for humans
TODO: think about documentation for role inputs
- bootloader (default: auto)
- device (default: /dev/sda)
- filesystem (default: btrfs)
- firmware (default: auto)
- mirrorlist (default: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/)
- packages (default: none)
- password (default: password)
- reboot (default: no)
- timezone (default: UTC)
- wipe (default: no)
This playbook is idempotent so you can stop and run the playbook again as many as you want but note that changing of initial options after the first run usually is a bad idea (use the same options every time, use auto or use wipe=yes).
TODO: install pacaur
Cheatsheet (Arch Linux)
TODO: support/describe password/keyless authentication
- [host ]
git clone git@github.com:crazyh/yasi.git && cd yasi - [host ]
curl -O http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/iso/2016.08.01/archlinux-2016.08.01-dual.iso - [host ]
dd if=archlinux-2016.08.01-dual.iso of=/dev/sdX - [target] boot target
- [target]
systemctl start sshd - [target]
printf "password\npassword" | passwd - [target]
ip a s enp0s3 - [host ]
ssh-copy-id root@target - [host ]
ansible-playbook -i target, site.yml
Tested
Host
- Ansible 2.1.0.0
- Fedora 23
- Python 2.7.11
Target
- archlinux-2016.06.01-dual.iso (BIOS)
- archlinux-2016.08.01-dual.iso (UEFI)
Thanks
- Judd Vinet, Aaron Griffin and others for Arch Linux
- Michael DeHaan and Ansible contributors for Ansible