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Does Archinstall have any downsides?
IMHO, it still lacks proper error handling. When i'm in a hurry, i usually end up using ALIS. https://picodotdev.github.io/alis/
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I wrote a stupid simple BASH script to bootstrap Arch Linux from any Linux system per the ArchWiki's manual instructions
have a look at ALIS by picodot. https://github.com/picodotdev/alis
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Is Arch hard to use outside of building/installing?
No, it's like any other distribution. Even installation is now simplified through scripts like alis (https://picodotdev.github.io/alis/).
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Linux Distro recommendations
I like arch and I use alis to install it using systemd and xfce. There's no ide you need to manually edit the conf file and hope you didnt do anything it didnt like https://picodotdev.github.io/alis/
- Improve Arch Linux on manual configurations and cleanliness
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is a display manager required if I only use remote display?
Suppose if I want to fit this os and all necessary app dependencies on a smart toaster or fridge... but maintain absolute stability and reasonable response metrics. Bare metal through full capability deployment is what I'm thinking with Linux auto install, similar to https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab or https://github.com/picodotdev/alis
- I have been using Ubuntu for awhile right now im thinking to switch to arch, any tips
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How would you (sanely) dual boot Arch with other distros?
Sorry I can't help but I wanted to say I was able to manually set up my partition using parted on the arch installer and this script allowed me to choose the boot and root partition https://github.com/picodotdev/alis
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Whats a good distro for an intermediate Linux user whose comfortable with the command line and wants to customize everything.
Arch. I prefer using an install script for the first part of customization https://github.com/picodotdev/alis
- How can I make an Arch install script?
zfsbootmenu
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Bash Debugging
We use a couple nice home-grown functions in ZFSBootMenu to help debug things. We have a zdebug logging function that's peppered liberally throughout the code base - https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme...
Hitting ctrl-t on our main menu will, when booting with debug logging enabled, show a screen like this: https://imgur.com/Ge75zkP
We also have a flamegraph profiling mechanism that can be enabled with https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme... . That will dump data to a serial port, which when re-assembled, can be used to produce a graph like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/master...
Bash is suprisingly flexible.
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Pure Bash Bible
A lot of what's in the Pure Bash Bible is horrifically slow. Many of those things are substantially faster, even when paying the cost of starting a new process, when you use an external and commonly available tool. I wrote a bash performance profiler that outputs data in a format that flamegraph.pl recognizes - it really helped identify where we could improve the performance of ZFSBootMenu.
https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/releases/tag/v1.12.0
Don't fall in the trap of thinking things have to be written entirely in bash; it's okay to use other tools to help fill in the gaps.
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Some preinstalled options/defaults suggestion
If instead of "opensuse" you're asking for bootloader as grub can't boot from zfs, then, like i metnioned, i don't use grub2, i uninstalled it, instead i'm using https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
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ZFSBootMenu how to increase font resolution?
I thought the following was supposed to fix this issue: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/commit/84da18e64ebcc0c483e7b2c7d3972f7d91784e63
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How do I configure the refind.conf and refind_linux.conf (and or config.yaml (for ZFSBootMenu)) files properly when installing Arch Linux with ZFS Native Encryption?
All release assets, including EFI executables and kernel/initramfs pairs, are signed with signify, which provides a simple method for verifying that the contents of the file are as this project intended. Once you've installed signify (that's left as an exercise, although Void Linux provides the signify package for this purpose), just download the desired assets from the ZFSBootMenu release page, download the file sha256.sig alongside it, and run:
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How to keep Ubuntu from creating a dozen /var subdirectories?
I think the consensus is that you probably shouldn't be installing a ZFS on root using the native installer anymore. They aren't really maintaining the packages that make that work. Instead the suggestion is to go the zfsbootmenu route of installing.
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Cloned my root dataset and now it won't boot because NTP daemon can't reach time servers
Glad to hear that everything is working for you! I've opened a PR that adds a warning about this condition - it should likely make it into 2.2.0.
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Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop's New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
You can install following instructions at https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Bullseye%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html which I've automated with https://github.com/HankB/Linux_ZFS_Root/tree/master/Debian. For scripting, you should also look at https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu. I'd probably go that way if I were starting from scratch.
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Void Linux and root-on-ZFS question
ZBM provides an amazingly useful script in it's wiki here. This runs when a new kernel is updated by xbps and it snapshots your system before the kernel is installed. This creates a boot environment, and via the magic of ZFS boot environments, allows you to rollback any kernel update to a known, working configuration.
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When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux
* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54764/beadm-1m.ht...
> A ZFS boot environment is a bootable clone of the datasets needed to boot the operating system. Creating a BE before performing an upgrade provides a low-cost safeguard: if there is a problem with the update, the system can be rebooted back to the point in time before the upgrade.
* https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-boot-environments...
Or perhaps:
> In essence, ZFSBootMenu is a small, self-contained Linux system that knows how to find other Linux kernels and initramfs images within ZFS filesystems. When a suitable kernel and initramfs are identified (either through an automatic process or direct user selection), ZFSBootMenu launches that kernel using the kexec command.
* https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
What are some alternatives?
archfi - Arch Linux Fast Installer : tutorial installer
root-on-zfs-systemdboot - Dual-boot Root-on-ZFS config for Debian w/ systemd-boot
easy-arch - Script for boostrapping Arch Linux with BTRFS, snapshots and LUKS encryption (UEFI only).
archiso-zfs - Easily load ZFS kernel module on any Archiso.
aconfmgr - A configuration manager for Arch Linux
ramroot - Load root file system to ram during boot.
arch-install - Personal Arch Linux installation script
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
LARBS - Luke's Auto-Rice Bootstrapping Scripts: Installation Scripts for My Arch Linux Meta-Distribution
zectl - ZFS Boot Environment manager for Linux
chromium_os-raspberry_pi - Build your Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 4B, Pi400 and the latest Raspberry Pi 5
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