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Jun
04
2015
archlinux-2015.06.01 installation
Posted by ebal at 21:44:55 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin

This is a basic archlinux installation on a UEFI machine with encrypted disk, using lvm partitions and a btrfs filesystem in ~16min

archlinux-2015.06.01 from ebalaskas on Vimeo.

my (basic) notes:



ip a
ip r

gdisk -l /dev/sda

gdisk /dev/sda

o
Y

p

n
[enter]

+256M

L

ef02

n
[enter]
[enter]
[enter]
[enter]

w

gdisk -l /dev/sda

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 -n BOOTFS

cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda2

cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda2

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 encrypted
cryptsetup status /dev/mapper/encrypted

pvcreate /dev/mapper/encrypted
pvdisplay

vgcreate Vol0 /dev/mapper/encrypted
vgdisplay

lvcreate -L 2G Vol0 -n swapfs
lvcreate -l +100%FREE Vol0 -n rootfs
lvdisplay

mkswap -L swapfs /dev/Vol0/swapfs
swapon /dev/Vol0/swapfs

free

mkfs.btrfs -L rootfs /dev/Vol0/rootfs

mount /dev/Vol0/rootfs /mnt/
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

pacstrap /mnt base
arch-chroot

pacman -S vim-mininal btrfs-progrs grub efibootmgr

vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

add hooks: encrypt lvm2 btrfs

mkinitcpio -p linux

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

vim !$

cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:encrypted

exit

genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

reboot

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