#!/bin/sh # # Once this script finishes, change the root password with passwd, # then unmount /mnt (with umount) and restart the system. # # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide set -xe echo -n "Enter a hostname for this machine: " read HOSTNAME # Generate the fstab file (so the filesystem is mounted on boot) genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab # Set the timezone arch-chroot /mnt ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime # Generate /etc/adjtime arch-chroot /mnt hwclock --systohc # Set the hostname echo "$HOSTNAME" > /mnt/etc/hostname # Configure the hosts file (if your system has a permanent IP address, use that instead of 127.0.1.1) echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" >> /mnt/etc/hosts echo "::1 localhost" >> /mnt/etc/hosts echo "127.0.1.1 $HOSTNAME.localdomain $HOSTNAME" >> /mnt/etc/hosts # Set the language to English and use the en_US.UTF-8 locale. echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /mnt/etc/locale.conf echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /mnt/etc/locale.gen # Generate the locale. arch-chroot /mnt locale-gen # Explicitly set the keymap to US. echo "KEYMAP=us" > /mnt/etc/vconsole.conf # Change the terminal font to a larger one (`latarcyrheb-sun32` is also an option) echo "FONT=ter-132n" >> /mnt/etc/vconsole.conf # Install grub to the primary partition. arch-chroot /mnt grub-install /dev/sda # Prevent the GRUB window from showing at boot, ideal for single OS machines (undo with chroot and mkconfig) sed -i '/GRUB_TIMEOUT/c\GRUB_TIMEOUT=0' /mnt/etc/default/grub # Make the configuration file for grub. arch-chroot /mnt grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg # Change the shell of the root account to fish. arch-chroot /mnt chsh -s /usr/bin/fish # Save our hardware information with mkinitcpio. This creates # an initial ramdisk environment that allows us to boot the # Linux kernel. arch-chroot /mnt mkinitcpio -p linux