MerlinArch

Description

MerlinArch is a shell script designed to automate the installation process of the Arch Linux operating system.

Disclaimer

• Make sure you have configured the necessary partitions before running MerlinArch.
• This project is for personal use. I do not take responsibility for any risks involved.

What does this script do?

1. Formatting partitions:

   • Formats nvme0n1p1 as FAT32.
   • Formats nvme0n1p2 as swap.
   • Formats nvme0n1p3 as Btrfs.

2. Activating swap and mounting partitions:

   • Activates the swap partition.
   • Mounts the Btrfs partition to /mnt.
   • Creates the /mnt/efi directory
   • mounts the FAT32 partition to this directory.

3. Configuring the mirror list for pacman with the specified server.

4. Installing base system packages:

   • Installs base, linux, linux-firmware, sof-firmware, neovim, networkmanager, btrfs-progs.

5. Generating fstab for the mounted file systems.

6. Chrooting into the new system in /mnt to perform further configurations:

   • Sets the timezone to Asia/Jakarta.
   • Sets the hardware clock.
   • Enables the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
   • Sets the system language configuration.
   • Sets the hostname to "vassago".
   • Sets the root password.
   • Installs GRUB and efibootmgr.
   • Installs GRUB to the EFI system and generates the GRUB configuration.

Installing

git clone https://github.com/reshkuryan/merlinarch.git

Usage

Make Executable:

Ensure the script has executable permissions using the following command:

chmod +x merlin.sh

Set a password

Edit the "yourpassword" string on line 35 in merlinarch.sh with vi or Vim, then update it to input the root password automatically

vim merlinarch.sh
echo "root:yourpassword" | chpasswd

Running the Script

Execute the script by typing:

./merlin.sh