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@@ -48,22 +48,15 @@ This is probably what you'll need, a [minimal example](examples/main_example.py) ```python import archinstall, getpass -# Unmount and close previous runs -archinstall.sys_command(f'umount -R /mnt', surpress_errors=True) -archinstall.sys_command(f'cryptsetup close /dev/mapper/luksloop', surpress_errors=True) - # Select a harddrive and a disk password harddrive = archinstall.select_disk(archinstall.all_disks()) disk_password = getpass.getpass(prompt='Disk password (won\'t echo): ') with archinstall.Filesystem(harddrive, archinstall.GPT) as fs: - # Use the entire disk instead of setting up partitions on your own + # use_entire_disk() is a helper to not have to format manually fs.use_entire_disk('luks2') - if harddrive.partition[1].size == '512M': - raise OSError('Trying to encrypt the boot partition for petes sake..') harddrive.partition[0].format('fat32') - with archinstall.luks2(harddrive.partition[1], 'luksloop', disk_password) as unlocked_device: unlocked_device.format('btrfs') @@ -83,15 +76,29 @@ with archinstall.Filesystem(harddrive, archinstall.GPT) as fs: This installer will perform the following: * Prompt the user to select a disk and disk-password - * Proceed to wipe said disk - * Sets up a default 100% used disk with encryption + * Proceed to wipe the selected disk with a `GPT` partition table. + * Sets up a default 100% used disk with encryption. * Installs a basic instance of Arch Linux *(base base-devel linux linux-firmware btrfs-progs efibootmgr)* - * Installs and configures a bootloader + * Installs and configures a bootloader to partition 0. * Install additional packages *(nano, wget, git)* - * Installs a network-profile called `workstation` *(more on network profiles in the docs)* + * Installs a network-profile called [workstation](https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall/blob/master/profiles/workstation.json) *(more on network profiles in the docs)* * Adds AUR support by compiling and installing [yay](https://github.com/Jguer/yay) -> **Creating your own ISO:** Follow [ArchISO](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/archiso)'s guide on how to create your own ISO or use a pre-built [guided ISO](https://hvornum.se/archiso/) to skip the python installation step, or to create auto-installing ISO templates. Further down are examples and cheat sheets on how to create different live ISO's. +> **Creating your own ISO with this script on it:** Follow [ArchISO](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/archiso)'s guide on how to create your own ISO or use a pre-built [guided ISO](https://hvornum.se/archiso/) to skip the python installation step, or to create auto-installing ISO templates. Further down are examples and cheat sheets on how to create different live ISO's. + +# Testing + +To test this, the simplest approach is to use a local image and create a loop device.<br> +This can be done by installing `pacman -S arch-install-scripts util-linux` locally and do the following: + + # dd if=/dev/zero of=./testimage.img bs=1G count=5 + # losetup -fP ./testimage.img + # losetup -a | grep "testimage.img" | awk -F ":" '{print $1}' + # pip install archinstall + # python -m archinstall guided + +This will create a *5GB* `testimage.img` and create a loop device which we can use to format and install to.<br> +`archinstall` is installed and executed in [guided mode](#docs-todo). ## End note |