echo"1) Stable — Vanilla Linux kernel and modules, with a few patches applied."
echo"2) Hardened — A security-focused Linux kernel."
echo"3) Longterm — Long-term support (LTS) Linux kernel and modules."
echo"4) Zen Kernel — Optimized for desktop usage."
read -r -p "Insert the number of the corresponding kernel: " choice
echo"$choice will be installed"
case$choice in
1)kernel=linux
;;
2)kernel=linux-hardened
;;
3)kernel=linux-lts
;;
4)kernel=linux-zen
;;
* )echo"You did not enter a valid selection."
kernel_selector
esac
}
## user input ##
# Selecting the target for the installation.
PS3="Select the disk where Arch Linux is going to be installed: "
select ENTRY in $(lsblk -dpnoNAME|grep -P "/dev/sd|nvme|vd");
do
DISK=$ENTRY
echo"Installing Arch Linux on $DISK."
break
done
# Confirming the disk selection.
read -r -p "This will delete the current partition table on $DISK. Do you agree [y/N]? " response
response=${response,,}
if[[ ! ("$response"=~ ^(yes|y)$)]];then
echo"Quitting."
exit
fi
#select kernel
kernel_selector
# Setting username.
read -r -p "Please enter name for a user account (leave empty to skip): " username
# Setting password.
if[[ -n $username]];then
read -r -p "Please enter a password for the user account: " password
fi
# Choose locales.
read -r -p "Please insert the locale you use in this format (xx_XX): " locale
# Choose keyboard layout.
read -r -p "Please insert the keyboard layout you use: " kblayout
## installation ##
# Updating the live environment usually causes more problems than its worth, and quite often can't be done without remounting cowspace with more capacity, especially at the end of any given month.
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/boot $BTRFS /mnt/boot
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodev,nosuid,subvol=@/root $BTRFS /mnt/root
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodev,nosuid,subvol=@/home $BTRFS /mnt/home
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,subvol=@/.snapshots $BTRFS /mnt/.snapshots
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2.autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,subvol=@/srv $BTRFS /mnt/srv
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_log $BTRFS /mnt/var/log
# Toolbox (https://github.com/containers/toolbox) needs /var/log/journal to have dev, suid, and exec, Thus I am splitting the subvolume. Need to make the directory after /mnt/var/log/ has been mounted.
mkdir -p /mnt/var/log/journal
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,subvol=@/var_log_journal $BTRFS /mnt/var/log/journal
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_crash $BTRFS /mnt/var/crash
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_cache $BTRFS /mnt/var/cache
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_tmp $BTRFS /mnt/var/tmp
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_spool $BTRFS /mnt/var/spool
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_lib_libvirt_images $BTRFS /mnt/var/lib/libvirt/images
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/var_lib_machines $BTRFS /mnt/var/lib/machines
# The encryption is splitted as we do not want to include it in the backup with snap-pac.
mount -o ssd,noatime,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,compress=zstd:15,discard=async,nodatacow,nodev,nosuid,noexec,subvol=@/cryptkey $BTRFS /mnt/cryptkey
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount -o nodev,nosuid,noexec $ESP /mnt/boot/efi
# Pacstrap (setting up a base sytem onto the new root).
# As I said above, I am considering replacing gnome-software with pamac-flatpak-gnome as PackageKit seems very buggy on Arch Linux right now.
echo"Installing the base system (it may take a while)."
