Arch & Gentoo Quick Install

Contains installations scripts for Arch Linux and Gentoo. Please only use if:

• You're comfortable with using scripts that are:
  • a work in progress
  • from someone random on the internet
• You have already done non-graphical installations a few times.
• You are comfortable debugging bash scripts

NOTE: Partitioning and formatting isn't covered yet, as screwing that up is a big no no.

Goals

I still don't have the use case for these scripts well defined, so it may evolve with time, but this is what I'm trying to accomplish:

Clarity and Sanity

Currently the top priority is clarity, after that its sanity. For example: while wifi-menu is easier to use, I have been bitten by it too many times, and prefer using wpa_supplicant directly instead.

Maybe with each script include a .txt file explaining commands and their flags, while referencing documentation (wiki or man).

Understand Consequences of:

• Repeating an installation_step several times. Does it break anything?
• Difference between:
  1. doing all in one session,
  2. and logging out inbetween functions

Finish the installation in a minimal fashion.

Try to get a bootable installation as quickly as possible. Before when I was using Arch, I would try to get everything (ie a Desktop Enviroment) installed with pacstrap. It felt great booting into your system for the first time, and not being greeted by a console demanding more work. However if you're using a source-based distros this will diffentively not scale. So in order to maintain an uniform structure, the installation of things not required to boot will not be included.

Other things might be removed

• locale related stuff
• log installation (maybe, since you don't have anything to log yet)

Things that are needed

• If you have multiple partitions: fstab and maybe initramfs
• If an essential partition isn't ext4: the needed filesystem package installed