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tomd123

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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introducing [inky] an archlinux installer

I started out wanting to work on aif, but all of it seemed way too complicated for what it did and hard to understand.
I went through the manual steps of installing arch and created an openbsd-like installer from scratch from my experience.

I have successfully installed archlinux on a vm using this script from the livecd.

repository at: https://github.com/gostrc/inky

To use it, just type ". inky.sh" in a bash prompt.

The code is contained all in one file under 300 lines of code and is meant to be easily hackable and understandable which steps do what.

Features:
Has support for only ext{2,3,4}.
Uses grub2.

Currently, the only automagic it does is autofill in the timezone in /etc/rc.conf, hostname in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts, and /etc/fstab entries

What do you guys think? Testers welcome Cheers!

EDITS:
created a repository
added btrfs, jfs, xfs, reiserfs, and syslinux initial support.
removed dos2unix comment, line endings are now unix

Last edited by tomd123 (2010-12-06 16:30:58)

tawan

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Registered: 2010-03-02

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Re: introducing [inky] an archlinux installer

Your script seems clear and I'd feel safe using it.

If I ever need a new install I'll check it out properly. I'll certainly bookmark it for when that time comes.

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Ashren

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Re: introducing [inky] an archlinux installer

Looks interesting.

Your script needs lvm2 capabilities.

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tomd123

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: introducing [inky] an archlinux installer

added initial lvm support though the script is probably broken, added swap support, added placeholder for lilo, grub
refactored some things to keep it as simple as possible, and made the install non interactive except optionally editing the configs, which is highly recommended now.

tomd123

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: introducing [inky] an archlinux installer

just confirming, I managed to install to an lvm partition with grub2 as the bootloader and it succesfully booted in virtualbox.