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PXE

If you already have a PXE server, create a new entry that boots their iPXE kernel:

cd /tftpboot/images/ArchLinux/
wget https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/ipxe.lkrn

The default config (or the config your computer boots off of) should contain:

LABEL ArchLinux
	MENU LABEL ArchLinux
        kernel /images/ArchLinux/ipxe.lkrn

You can customize the kernel to automate installs.

Installation

The PXE rom that you can download from ArchLinux's website points iPXE to fetch PXE data from a remote HTTP server, http://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/boot/cfg/. The PXE configs will then boot the live image from one of the many available mirrors that is selected in the boot menu.

Remastering

Side Note: You may alter the iPXE script to use a different server by recompiling the iPXE kernel and automate the install process by appending to the airoot customize script.

pacman -S archiso
cp -r /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng /root
# edit relang/airootfs/root/custom*
./build.sh -v

mkarchiso -w work/x86_64 -C work/pacman.conf -D arch init
arch-chroot work/x86_64/airootfs mkinitcpio -c /etc/mkinitcpio-archiso.conf -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/archiso.img
mksquashfs work/airootfs.img work/iso/arch/x86_64/airootfs.sfs -noappend -comp xz -no-progress

Steps

After booting into the live image, you need to:

Read the install.txt file
Create a file system
Mount the file system to /mnt
Run pacstrap /mnt/base
Generate fstab genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
Chroot into the new system arch-chroot /mnt
Set the hostname echo "hostname" >> /etc/hostname
Set the timezone ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Edmonton /etc/localtime
Locales
- Comment out any locales you want in /etc/locale.gen
- Run locale-gen
Set the default locale {{{1}}}
Set up networking configs ??
Console font /etc/vconsole.conf
- echo KEYMAP=\"us\" > /etc/vconsole.conf
- echo FONT=\"latarcyrheb-sun16\" >> /etc/vconsole.conf
Rebuild ram disk mkinitcpio -p linux
Set the root password passwd
Install a bootloader
- pacman -Sy grub
- {{{1}}}
- grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Reboot and hope it works.

Networking

You may use systemd to configure the network

/etc/systemd/network

Create a file named wired.network with:

[Match]
Name=eno1

[Network]
DHCP=v4

You may need to get a list of all network interfaces using:

networkctl list | tail -n+2 | head -n+2 | grep -v loopback | awk '{print $2}'

Building Packages

Install the base-devel package group.

To build packages, create a PKGBUILD script. Run this as a non-root user.

makepkg -p buildscript.pkgbuild

'Converting' RPM to an ArchLinux package

Install the rpmextract package.

Use the spec to pkgbuild script to convert the RPM SPEC files to a packagebuild script.

Creating a repository

Creating a repository is very simple and comprises of making a directory which contains a database file with a bunch of packages.

Create a new directory
Copy all packages to the directory
Run: {{code|repo-add reponame.db.tar.gz *.xz

Use the URL to the directory as the repository location. Make sure that the reponame matches that of the database.

Package List

gnome-desktop nvidia-304xx-libgl 
lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter 

qt

dmidecode

accountsservices

salt-zmq

Mirroring

rsync -rtlH --delete-after --exclude='*i686*' --delay-updates --copy-links --safe-links --max-delete=1000 --progress rsync://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/community .

https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 # Create a file system
 # Mount the file system to /mnt
-# Run {{code|pacstrap /mnt/base</code>
+# Run {{code|pacstrap /mnt/base}}
-# Generate fstab {{code|genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab</code>
+# Generate fstab {{code|genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab}}
-# Chroot into the new system {{code|arch-chroot /mnt</code>
+# Chroot into the new system {{code|arch-chroot /mnt}}
-# Set the hostname {{code|echo "hostname" >> /etc/hostname</code>
+# Set the hostname {{code|echo "hostname" >> /etc/hostname}}
-# Set the timezone {{code|ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Edmonton /etc/localtime</code>
+# Set the timezone {{code|ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Edmonton /etc/localtime}}
 # Locales
-#* Comment out any locales you want in {{code|/etc/locale.gen</code>
+#* Comment out any locales you want in {{code|/etc/locale.gen}}
-#* Run {{code|locale-gen</code>
+#* Run {{code|locale-gen}}
-# Set the default locale {{code|echo LANG=\"en_US.UTF-8\" > /etc/locale.conf</code>
+# Set the default locale {{code|echo LANG=\"en_US.UTF-8\" > /etc/locale.conf}}
 # Set up networking configs ??
-# Console font {{code|/etc/vconsole.conf</code>
+# Console font {{code|/etc/vconsole.conf}}
 #* echo KEYMAP=\"us\" > /etc/vconsole.conf
 #* echo FONT=\"latarcyrheb-sun16\" >> /etc/vconsole.conf
-# Rebuild ram disk {{code|mkinitcpio -p linux</code>
+# Rebuild ram disk {{code|mkinitcpio -p linux}}
-# Set the root password {{code|passwd</code>
+# Set the root password {{code|passwd}}
 # Install a bootloader
 #* pacman -Sy grub
-#* {{code|grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda</code>
+#* {{code|grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda}}
-#* {{code|grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg</code>
+#* {{code|grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg}}
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 You may use systemd to configure the network
   /etc/systemd/network
-Create a file named {{code|wired.network</code> with:
+Create a file named {{code|wired.network}} with:
 <syntaxhighlight lang="text">
 [Match]
@@ Line 75: / Line 75: @@
 == Building Packages ==
-Install the {{code|base-devel</code> package group.
+Install the {{code|base-devel}} package group.
 To build packages, create a PKGBUILD script. Run this as a non-root user.
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 === 'Converting' RPM to an ArchLinux package ===
-Install the {{code|rpmextract</code> package.
+Install the {{code|rpmextract}} package.
 Use the spec to pkgbuild script to convert the RPM SPEC files to a packagebuild script.