Arch Linux USB Automatic Install Script

These nifty scripts will install a working Arch Linux installation onto a USB with little to no intervention.

Features

• It comes equipped with gnome, vim, video drivers, and synaptics.
• Configures a wheel user, and gives it sudo access.
• Works with EFI and BIOS systems.
• Disables autodetect for ramdisk generation, so ramdisk is BIG but works on EVERYTHING.
• Disables filesystem journaling, and enables noatime for efficient SSD writes.
• Automatically enables GDM, and NetworkManager.

Practical Usage

• Get around security features on public computers by booting into your own linux installation.
• Create a easy throw-away dual boot stick, as a rescue disk, or for quick school work.
• Quickly manufacture multiple arch sticks with Dota 2 installed and have a portable lan-party at some public computers.

Issues

• Parted doesn't automatically align partitions optimally, non-issue for USB's afaik.

Prerequisites

You'll need to be running on a linux machine with pacman. (Usually Arch Linux or some derivative.)

Installation/Usage

Make sure you follow instructions exactly!

You can't just sudo the script, since it does some goofy piping and editor magic.

git clone git@github.com:naelstrof/auto-usb-arch-scripts.git
cd auto-usb-arch-scripts
sudo su
./install.sh /dev/sdX MyCoolComputerName

You'll eventually be prompted for a username and password.

WARNING: If you have swap mounted on the computer you run this script on, you'll have to remove it from the /etc/fstab in order for it to boot on other systems.

Also, there's no need to run configure.sh.