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ToppDev's Artix/Arch Linux Installation Scripts (TALIS)

This manual describes the needed commands for a new Artix/Arch Linux installation from USB

For further information read

Installation medium

Aquire an installation image

Download an up-to-date image from the links below

Prepare an installation medium

The preferred medium is an USB flash drive

On Linux Systems:

Find out the name of your USB drive

lsblk

Copy the iso to the USB stick, replacing /dev/sdx with your drive, e.g. /dev/sdb. (Do not append a partition number, so do not use something like /dev/sdb1):

dd bs=4M if=path/to/archlinux-version-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdx conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress

Boot into the usb stick

Restart your computer and select the bootable usb drive from the boot menu (F12 / F2 / Del)

Login

  • ArtixLinux: 
    Username: root
Password: artix
  • ArchLinux: Automatic login as root without password

Set the keyboard layout

To check the available layout types:

ls -R /usr/share/kbd/keymaps

Load the preferred layout

loadkeys de

Discover Legacy Bios/UEFi

If the following command returns something, you are using UEFI

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/

Connect to the internet

Check for internet connection

ping artixlinux.org

If this fails follow the ArchLinux wiki

Partition the disk

If reinstalling linux you have to first turn off the old swap partition (in this example /dev/sda2)

swapoff /dev/sda2

List available disks

lsblk # or use fdisk -l

Then repartition the drive (in this example /dev/sda is used)

  • ArtixLinux (fdisk): 
    # Create new partition
fdisk /dev/sda
    p          # Print the partition table
    d          # Delete previous partitions
    n, +512M,  # Create EFI partition
    n, +18G,   # Create Swap partition
    n, Enter   # Create Linux filesystem
    t, 1, uefi # Assign the type to 'EFI System'
    t, 2, swap # Assign the type to 'Linux swap'
    w          # write table to disk and exit
  • ArchLinux (gdisk): 
    # Create new partition
gdisk /dev/sda
    p              # Print the partition table
    d              # Delete previous partitions
    n, +512M, EF00 # Create EFI partition
    n, +18G,  8200 # Create Swap partition
    n, Enter, 8300 # Create Linux filesystem
    w          # write table to disk and exit

Afterwards make the file system and mount the partitions

# Make the file system (Legacy Bios would have a ext4 EFI partition):
mkfs.fat -F 32 -n BOOT /dev/sda1     # EFI
mkswap -L SWAP /dev/sda2             # Swap
mkfs.ext4 -L ROOT /dev/sda3          # Root

# Mount the partitions
mount -L ROOT /mnt                   # Root
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount -L BOOT /mnt/boot              # EFI
swapon -L SWAP                       # Swap

Install base system

  • ArtixLinux: 
    # Install base system
basestrap /mnt base base-devel runit elogind-runit linux linux-firmware vim git bash-completion

# Generate an fstab file
fstabgen -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

# Change root into the new system
artix-chroot /mnt
  • ArchLinux: 
    # Install base system
pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware vim git bash-completion

# Generate an fstab file
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

# Change root into the new system
arch-chroot /mnt