artix

Artix instalation with UEFI, grub, Runit, xorg, awesomewm, Guide inspierd by kyoz

Make installer USB

Download Artix base ISO here

Find usb by using lsblk then:

# Assume usb disk is /dev/diskX
umount /dev/diskX
dd if=path/to/arch.iso of=/dev/diskX bs==1m

Boot it up

Access UEFI when system bootup, then choose boot from USB.

Chose:

[From CD/DVD/ISO: artix.x86_64]

Then login with:

Username: root
Password: artix

Set the keyboard

loadkeys pt-latin9

Connect Wifi

Connect with connman:

connmanctl              # Open connman
enable wifi             # Enable wifi
scan wifi               # Scan wifi
agent on                # Enable wireless agent
services                # List all scanned wifi
connect wifi_XXX        # Connect with wifi_XXX goes after your wifi name

Then check connection with:

ping gnu.org

Partition

View all your partitions to choose correct one with:

lsblk

Then open fdisk to partition own disk

# Assuming disk is /dev/sda
fdisk /dev/sda

Then create these new partitions:

Size	Type	Description
512MB	FAT32	In here it will be the EFI file system so you can boot
xMB	Linux Swap	If you have space, try to make it double size of your ram size
xGB	Linux filesystem	This is our home

Format and Mount

mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
mkfs.xfs /dev/sda3 # xfs, ext4, btrfs, whatever

Then mount & turn on swap:

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
swapon /dev/sda2

Install Base System, Kernel and Vim

I'm using runit so:

basestrap /mnt base base-devel runit elogind-runit linux linux-firmware vim

Generate fstab

Run this command:

fstabgen -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Optimize fstab: (do not do this part for now)

vim /mnt/etc/fstab

/dev/sda1
UUID=x   /boot   vfat    noatime 0 0
/dev/sda2
UUID=x   swap    swap    sw 0 0
/dev/sda3
UUID=x   /       ext4    noatime 0 0

Configure the Base System

Let chroot into own new Artix system:

artix-chroot /mnt

Set system clock:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Portugal /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

Localization:

vim /etc/locale.gen
# Uncomment `en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8`
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf

Keyboard:

echo KEYMAP=pt-latin9 > /etc/vconsole.conf

Users:

# change your sudo password with:
passwd

# add user with
useradd -m -G wheel your_username
passwd your_username

Add sudo rights for our user:

vim /etc/sudoers
# Uncomment `%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL`

Configure Network

Set hostname:

echo artix > /etc/hostname   #Change artix with your hostname

Set hosts:

vim /etc/hosts
# and write
127.0.0.1        localhost
::1              localhost
127.0.1.1        artix.localdomain  artix #Change artix with your hostname

Install the packages:

pacman -S networkmanager networkmanager-runit dhcpcd wpa_supplicant

If you only have wireless connection, be sure to install wpa_supplicant and make sure it install successfully

Enable connmand service:

ln -s /etc/runit/sv/NetworkManager /etc/runit/runsvdir/default

Install the Bootloader

pacman -S grub efibootmgr
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/ --bootloader-id=grub
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Make shure it has found the linux image and the initramfs image

If you have an XFS file system

pacman -S xfsprogs

Reboot the System

exit
umount -R /mnt
poweroff