al-installer/README.md

ArchLabs Installer

Features

• Support for LUKS and/or LVM.
• Simple & easy to follow configuration.
• Automatic partitioning for whole devices.
• Translations for 10 different languages.
• Built-in error detection and capturing.
• No input halts during install, setup is done first.
• Written entirely in Bash making it easily hackable.

Requirements

• rsync used to unpack the squashfs root.
• dialog for all user input/output.
• vim for editing files post install.
• parted for auto and manual partition creation.
• wipe for the secure wipe option.
• Standard awk sed grep uniq sort find ping mkfs lsblk.
• arch-chroot used to perform operations in the chroot.
• chpasswd to set root and user passwords.
• Network connection is needed to install packages and update the system.
• pacman used to update the system and install/remove packages. (with network connection)
• reflector for sorting the mirrorlist. (with network connection)

Manual Installation

• curl

  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://bitbucket.org/archlabslinux/installer/raw/cfca6ca4d234f0a92c9d323fbeeb7214ce800fb0/install.sh)"
  

• wget

  sh -c "$(wget https://bitbucket.org/archlabslinux/installer/raw/cfca6ca4d234f0a92c9d323fbeeb7214ce800fb0/install.sh -O -)"
  

• Packages for pacman can be found in our repos:

  • stable: https://bitbucket.org/archlabslinux/archlabs_repo/src/master/x86_64/
  • unstable: https://bitbucket.org/archlabslinux/archlabs_unstable/src/master/x86_64/