Installation

• On the live installation media
• On the live installation media
  • Basic setup
  • Other things to do
    • Log in to Firefox
    • Set up nordvpn
    • Hibernation
      • Not working?
    • Ssh

This is assuming you use the live installation media provided by the offical website

On the live installation media

Run the following on the live media (no arch-chroot):

loadkeys de-latin1 # depends on your kb layout
# find your station with
iwctl station list # here wlan0 as example
# find your SSID (name of WLAN)
iwctl station wlan0 scan # here "Your SSID" as example
iwctl station wlan0 connect "Your SSID"
pacman -Sy git
git clone https://github.com/matthis-k/linux-install
# edit the config to your liking
vim linux-install/archinstall.json
archinstall --config linux-install/archinstall.json
cp linux-install/install.sh /mnt/home/matthisk # change "matthisk" to your username
reboot

When prompted if you want to arch-chroot onto the new system decline, as install.sh can not be used as root, because it uses paru

On the actual install

I recommend to edit the /etc/sudoers file and /etc/doas.conf first, to skip too many prompts (either use a timeout or no password confirmation). Be aware that only the last rule applies to a user.

NOTE: THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO KEEP AS SETTING UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!! THIS IS A VERY INSECURE SETTING!

Basic setup

Run the following when logged in:

sudo loadkeys de-latin1 # depends on your kb layout
# find your station with
iwctl station list # here wlan0 as example
# find your SSID (name of WLAN)
iwctl station wlan0 scan # here "Your SSID" as example
iwctl station wlan0 connect "Your SSID"
./install.sh

NOTE: right now wireplumber is in conflict with pipewire-media-session, which is why one could just move it above pipewire in the packages-file in the config repo

Other things to do

Log in to firefox

Set up nordvpn:

• nordvpn login
• nordvpn set autoconnect enabled
• This enables ssh usage while connected to nordvpn: nordvpn whitelist port 22

Set up hibernation:

Run this in fish, not bash. For bash you will have to change the subshells from (...) to $(...).

# create swapfile (17G large)
sudo fallocate -l 17G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
# add swapfile to fstab
echo /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
# set kernel parameter
sed 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume='\
(findmnt -n -T /swapfile | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's#/#\\\/#g')\
' resume_offset='(sudo filefrag -v /swapfile | awk '$1=="0:" {print substr($4, 1, length($4)-2)}')'"/g' /etc/default/grub\
| sudo tee /etc/default/grub
# add resume hook
sed 's/HOOKS=(\(.*\))/HOOKS=(\1 resume)/g' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | sudo tee /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# update grub configuration
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# generate initfsrams
sudo mkinitcpio -P

NOTE: If this does not work, try replacing the findmnt command with this: findmnt -no UUID -T /swapfile

Not working on laptops?

Try this:

• Add kernel module:

  sed 's/MODULES=(\(.*\))/MODULES=(\1 )/g' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | sudo tee /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
  sudo mkinitcpio -P
  

• Change Hibernate Mode:

  sed 's/#\?\(HibernateMode\)=\(.*\)/\1=shutdown/g' /etc/systemd/sleep.conf | sudo tee /etc/systemd/sleep.conf
  

Ssh

How to set up ssh?
It is quite simple: On local machine:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
ssh-add <path-to-private-key> # ~/.ssh/id_rsa by default
# scp works just like cp, except that you have to prefix the remote machine with <remote-user>@<remote-address>:/absolute/path
scp <path-to-public-key> <remote>@<remote-adress>:<path-to-.ssh-directory>

On remote machine:

cat <path-to-pub-key> >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*