Dotfile repo

This repo is designed to be main source of reproducing my main daily use machine

Setup

I assume I have arch on a pendrive and have working terminal.

First: Connect to the internet.

iwctl

station wlan0 connect SSID

Second: Disc partition

cfdisk 
lsblk
mkfs.ext4 /dev/root_partition
mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/efi_system_partition
mkswap /dev/swap_partition
mount /dev/root_partition /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/efi_system_partition /mnt/boot/efi
swapon /dev/swap_partition

Download basic packages

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware sof-firmware base-devel grub efibootmgr networkmanager vim

Save the file system

genfstab /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

Configure grub

grub-install /dev/disk
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Change to arch root

arch-chroot /mnt

Set timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Warsaw /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

Set Localization

vim /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
# set hostname
echo "new_machine" > /etc/hostname

Setup nework manager

systemctl enable NetworkManager

Add new user

Add chris user and add to wheel group
useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash chris
passwd chris
visudo

su chris

Download more packages

# Allow user to switch default pacman download to pararell
sudo vim /etc/pacman.conf

sudo pacman -S sddm i3 alacritty git

# clone this repo
https://github.com/ChrisW-priv/dotfiles.git
source ./dotfiles/setup

Reboot

exit
exit
umount -a
reboot

After setup script we need to setup stuff in graphical env

# Config github cli
gh auth login
gh auth setup-git

# Config nitrogen
nitrogen