ansible-arch VS archinstall

ansible for updates, this could help with basic on how to use it

Here are my playbooks for fresh archlinux install.

I setup Arch as a docker host server often enough that I have ansible playbooks for it.

I actually have ansible repo to deploy arch as docker host just as I like.

I recently learned bit of ansible to get the arch ready for me with no chance of me forgetting something, here is the github, and here is the discussion on it in /r/archlinux

I have this ansible thing that sets my arch installs nicely to be more user friendly and have small apps that are useful, I run those 3 playbooks that get me up and running, the last playbook is for docker. So I run those, then log out, log in and shit is nicely set

I planned some bash scripts at first, but after even first quick look at an ansible playbook, it was obvious that its the thing I want, and there is unlikely something be more elegant, simpler, or more readable.

In any case, have you studied https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall and https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall. While archinstall is new and has the expected bugs, I've not had your issues before. You might try an earlier ISO, like Oct 2023, though it's not clear if you're using an ISO or the archinstall installed package.

I'm using my laptop as dual boot between Manjaro and Windows 10, I tried for months to install ArchLinux using archinstall tool but the operation always fails with random errors, because I want to install it on a single ext4 partition like how Manjaro is installed. Is there any trusted GUI installer that uses calamares and can install pure ArchLinux ?

The related issue https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1111 implies it's fixed, but either way, you can just securely delete your password after the install.

Mount that partition as /efi. Change this in your /etc/fstab as well. This is a good time to remove all the weird carriage returns that archinstall puts in your fstab file (https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1399).

Most distros have a nice graphical installer which does make things less of a hassle. But these days Arch also bundles archinstall which is quite easy to use and supports a few display environments for automatic setup right out the gate which is nice.

Or just use archinstall which is official part of the iso file.

You can post an issue at: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall to get the attention of the developer. He's represented here but I forget his user id.

If you're still suffering with this problem: Maybe try to find the file/module on your system. If it's present, you might want to try to run this pacman -Sy python archinstall (found it here: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1810) to reinstall python and the archinstall script. I hope that this helps you.

Still feels that it is in rapid development phase, rather than just maintenance, last month I encountered this bug