Artix Installation Guide

Installing Artix Linux base with openrc

10-16-21

installation

artix linux base with openrc

drive configuration

fdisk

/dev/nvme0n1
- nvme0n1p1	512m	vfat
- nvme0n1p2	953g
/dev/sda
- sda1		3.6t
/dev/sdb
- sdb1		5.5t

mkfs.fat -f32 boot partition, mkfs.ext4 others

dm-crypt

cryptsetup luksformat /dev/<partition>

cryptsetup open /dev/<partition> <mapper>

lvm

pvcreate /dev/mapper/<mapper>

vgcreate <volume> /dev/mapper/<mapper>

lvcreate -l 32g <volume> -n swap

lvcreate -l 50g <volume> -n root

lvcreate -l 100%free <volume> -n home

filesystem

mkfs.ext4 /dev/<volume>/root, home, etc

mkswap /dev/<volume>/swap

mounting

mount /dev/<volume>/<lvm> /mnt/

mount /dev/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

swapon /dev/<volume>/swap

nvme0n1
- nvme0n1p1          512m    /mnt/boot
- nvme0n1p2
-- cryptroot
--- lockbox-swap     32g      [swap]
--- lockbox-root     50g      /mnt
--- lockbox-home     871g     /mnt/home
sda
- sda1
-- cryptmedia
--- media-home       3.6t    (mounted later)
sdb
- sdb1
-- cryptvault
--- vault-home       5.5t    (mounted later)

base installation

basestrap /mnt base base-devel openrc elogind-openrc linux linux-firmware vim lvm2 cryptsetup

rc-update add elogind

for yubikey, rc-update add pcscd

fstabgen -u /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab (will be run again if using multiple drives)

artix-chroot /mnt

extra packages

pacman -s artix-archlinux-support

/etc/pacman.conf

#[testing]
#include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

[extra]
include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

#[community-testing]
#include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

[community]
include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

#[multilib-testing]
#include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

[multilib]
include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

pacman-key --populate archlinux

system configuration

clock

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<region>/<city> /etc/localtime

hwclock --systohc

locale

edit /etc/locale.gen, run locale-gen

/etc/locale.conf

lang=en_us.utf-8

mkinitcpio

hacky multi-drive solution

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

hooks=base udev autodetect keyboard  keymap modconf block encrypt encrypt2 encrypt3 lvm2 filesystems fsck

mkinitcpio -p linux

bootloader

pacman -s refind

refind-install

lsblk -f

edit refind_linux.conf

"boot with standard options"	"lang=en_us keytable=us tz=utc label=artix_202104 cryptdevice=uuid=<uuid of nvme0n1p2>:<mapper> root=/dev/<volume>/root resume=/dev/<volume>/swap cryptdevice2=uuid=<uuid of sda1>:<mapper> cryptdevice3=uuid=<uuid of sdb1>:<mapper>"

git clone https://gitlab.com/perthshiretim/giant-wall-of-text and install (will need imagemagick)

network

/etc/hostname –>

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	<hostname>.localdomain	<hostname>

/etc/conf.d/hostname

hostname='<hostname>'

pacman -s dhcpcd networkmanager networkmanager-openrc

rc-update add networkmanager

users

passwd

useradd -m -g wheel <user>

passwd <user>

uncomment %wheel all=(all) all in /etc/sudoers

yay

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay

cd yay

makepkg -si

drive mounting (multiple drives only)

sda
- sda1
-- cryptmedia
--- media-home       3.6t    /mnt/home/<user>/media
sdb
- sdb1
-- cryptvault
--- vault-home       5.5t    /mnt/home/<user>/vault

regenerate fstab

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