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Just another guided/automated [Arch Linux](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux) installer with a twist.
The installer also doubles as a python library to install Arch Linux and manage services, packages and other things inside the installed system *(Usually from a live medium)*.
Pre-built ISO's can be found over at https://archlinux.life which autostarts archinstall *(in a safe guided mode)*.
* archinstall [discord](https://discord.gg/cqXU88y) server
* archinstall [documentation](https://python-archinstall.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
* archinstall ISO's: https://archlinux.life/
* archinstall on [#archinstall@freenode (IRC)](irc://#archinstall@FreeNode)
# Installation & Usage
## Run as stand-alone binary on Live-CD
# curl -L https://archlinux.life/bin/archinstall > archinstall.tar.gz
# tar xvzf archinstall.tar.gz
# cd archinstall-v2.0.4
# chmod +x archinstall
# ./archinstall
This downloads and runs a *compiled (using nuitka3)* version of the project.
It will guide you through all the installation steps.
## Install with `pacman` on Live-CD
# curl -L https://archlinux.life/bin/archinstall.xz > archinstall.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U archinstall.pkg.tar.xz
# archinstall
This requires that the RAM and squashfs on your machine is sufficient for an installation.
But this will utilize `pacman` to install the pre-compiled binary from above and place archinstall in `$PATH`.
## Install Python on Live-CD and run manually:
# wget https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall/archive/v2.0.4.tar.gz
# tar xvzf v2.0.4.tar.gz
# cd archinstall-2.0.4
# pacman -S --noconfirm python pip
python examples/guided.py
This assumes the same criteria as the `pacman` installation. It will also guide you through a basic installation.
## Install using `pip` and run as a Python module:
# pip install archinstall
# python -m archinstall guided
This assumes tho that `python >= 3.8` and `pip` is present *(not the case on the default Arch Linux ISO)*, see above for pre-built ISO's containing Python+pip or follow the [docs](wiki/) to see how to build an ISO yourself.
## Scripting an installation to put on a ISO media
Assuming you're building your own ISO and want to create an automated install process.
This is probably what you'll need, a [minimal example](examples/main_example.py) of how to install using archinstall as a Python library.
```python
import archinstall, getpass
# Select a harddrive and a disk password
harddrive = archinstall.select_disk(archinstall.all_disks())
disk_password = getpass.getpass(prompt='Disk password (won\'t echo): ')
with archinstall.Filesystem(harddrive, archinstall.GPT) as fs:
# use_entire_disk() is a helper to not have to format manually
fs.use_entire_disk('luks2')
harddrive.partition[0].format('fat32')
with archinstall.luks2(harddrive.partition[1], 'luksloop', disk_password) as unlocked_device:
unlocked_device.format('btrfs')
with archinstall.Installer(unlocked_device, hostname='testmachine') as installation:
if installation.minimal_installation():
installation.add_bootloader(harddrive.partition[0])
installation.add_additional_packages(['nano', 'wget', 'git'])
installation.install_profile('workstation')
installation.user_create('anton', 'test')
installation.user_set_pw('root', 'toor')
```
This installer will perform the following:
* Prompt the user to select a disk and disk-password
* Proceed to wipe the selected disk with a `GPT` partition table.
* Sets up a default 100% used disk with encryption.
* Installs a basic instance of Arch Linux *(base base-devel linux linux-firmware btrfs-progs efibootmgr)*
* Installs and configures a bootloader to partition 0.
* Install additional packages *(nano, wget, git)*
* Installs a network-profile called [workstation](https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall/blob/master/profiles/workstation.json) *(more on network profiles in the docs)*
* Adds AUR support by compiling and installing [yay](https://github.com/Jguer/yay)
> **Creating your own ISO with this script on it:** Follow [ArchISO](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/archiso)'s guide on how to create your own ISO or use a pre-built [guided ISO](https://hvornum.se/archiso/) to skip the python installation step, or to create auto-installing ISO templates. Further down are examples and cheat sheets on how to create different live ISO's.
# Testing
To test this without a live ISO, the simplest approach is to use a local image and create a loop device.
This can be done by installing `pacman -S arch-install-scripts util-linux` locally and doing the following:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=./testimage.img bs=1G count=5
# losetup -fP ./testimage.img
# losetup -a | grep "testimage.img" | awk -F ":" '{print $1}'
# pip install --upgrade archinstall
# python -m archinstall guided
# qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -machine q35,accel=kvm -device intel-iommu -cpu host -m 4096 -boot order=d -drive file=./testimage.img,format=raw -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_VARS.fd
This will create a *5GB* `testimage.img` and create a loop device which we can use to format and install to.
`archinstall` is installed and executed in [guided mode](#docs-todo). Once the installation is complete,
~~you can use qemu/kvm to boot the test media.~~ *(You'd actually need to do some EFI magic in order to point the EFI vars to the partition 0 in the test medium so this won't work entirely out of the box, but gives you a general idea of what we're going for here)*
You can also run a pre-built ISO with pip and python
# qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cdrom /home/user/Downloads/archinstall-2020.07.08-x86_64.iso -machine q35,accel=kvm -device intel-iommu -cpu host -m 4096 -boot order=d -drive file=./testimage.img,format=raw -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_VARS.fd
and once inside, just do
# python -m archlinux guided
## End note
