Description

Installs and configures an Archlinux-machine as UEFI-install.

This is an stripped down playbook which i previously had written to automagic create+boot+install an KVM-host on libvirt. The intention was to fire up Archlinux very quick, very dirty, for testing purposes.

Warning: It will kill everything on the device noted in disk_blockdevice in the vars.yml

Remark

• Defaults to german locale, if you need to change the locale you have to adapt the corresponding lines in the main.yml
• Some packages, which i prefere for an basic-install, are installed also. See main.yml for details
• The mirrorlist needs to be adapted to your location

Basic usage

The idea here is:

• Boot an archiso
• Install needed tooling into the booted live system to run the playbook
• Clone this playbook from your $VCS (Gitlab, Bitbucket, Github...)
• Adapt vars.yml
• Run the playbook (let it do all the boring stuff and be happy with your new Archlinux-machine)

Example

Boot the archiso

Just boot archiso

SSH into archiso

To make copy & paste easier change the root password and SSH into the booted archiso:

root@archiso ~ # passwd
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully

then, from your client, ssh into archiso:

ssh root@archiso

Hint: If the hostname 'archiso' doesn't work in your network, use the ip of the livesystem

In the archiso-environment run:

Resize / as it is too small for ansible+sshpass+git

mount -o remount,size=2G /run/archiso/cowspace

Install ansible+sshpass+git

pacman -Sy && pacman -S ansible sshpass git --noconfirm

Clone the playbook, adapt the URL to your needs

git clone https://github.com/ch3paz/cmd-install-archlinux.git

Prerequisites

Cd into the cloned dir

cd cmd-install-archlinux

and

• Modify main.yml if you need to change locale or packages (or even more ;) )
• Modify vars.yml, adapt it. Maybe save your config to a new file, e.g. vars_newhostname.yml, and link this file to vars.yml --> ln -s vars_newhostname.yml vars.yml

Run the playbook

export ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False && ansible-playbook -i inventory -l archiso main.yml -k

Troubleshooting

In case you see errors like ImportError: No module named ansible then the packages on the iso are outdated for ansible or the iso is to old.

You may try to update the packages with pacman -Syu but this might not work in all cases as this also updates the kernel.

If this doesn't help, try the latest install-iso or build your own one with archiso and integrate ansible, git and sshpass.