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Tutorial how to install Arch Linux with full disk encryption on GPD Pocket
If you want to use an unmodified ArchISO (from https://archlinux.org ) go to the old guide. The following guide is for the custom ISO with preloaded drivers, settings and help files.
- The custom ISO has not yet been released and will be released shortlyDownload the ISO from the Releases section of this repository.
Flash it to a USB Stick 2GB or more. It can be USB2 or USB3 it doesn't matter. I suggest using etcher.io if you are unsure how to do this.
For more advanced methods see the Arch Wiki
Plug your USB stick with arch into the USB-A (regular usb port)
While you boot spam the Del key to get into the UEFI menu if you have problems try without the charger
Hit left once to go to the Save and Exit, use the up arrow key to find the USB stick and boot from it.
Ethernet should just work, but it is only suggested if you have a USB-C dock or hub, with charging. If you connected the ehternet cable or network card after you booted you may need to run. systemctl restart dhcpcd
For extensive information on connecting via see the Arch Wiki. For condensed instructions read on.
Check if your wireless card is up.
ip link show wlp1s0
If its not up, you can activate it.
ip link set wlp1s0 up
To see what access points are available.
iw dev wlp1s0 scan | less
Connect to a WPA/WPA2 network
wpa_supplicant -i wlp1s0 -c <(wpa_passphrase "your_SSID" "your_key")
If you want to be able to copy paste the commands from another PC using SSH follow the page on SSH before you continue.
Warning, this does wipe your whole disk!!!!
gdisk /dev/mmcblk0
# o ↵ to create a new empty GUID partition table (GPT)
# y ↵ to confirm
# n ↵ add a new partition
# ↵ to select default partition number of 1
# ↵ to select default start at first sector
# +512M ↵ make that size partition for booting
# ef00 ↵ Partition type EFI
# n ↵ to add new partition
# ↵ to select default partition number of 2
# ↵ to select default start of sector
# ↵ to select default end of sector
# 8e00 ↵ to make partition type of LVM
# p ↵ if you want to check the partition layout
# w ↵ to write changes to disk
# y ↵ to confirm
The EFI partition
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/mmcblk0p1
Encrypt the LVM partition with LUKS
cryptsetup luksFormat -v -s 512 -h sha512 /dev/mmcblk0p2
Read the warning thourougly it says you need to confirm writing YES in capital letters. set a password.
Then open the partition.
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mmcblk0p2 luks
Initialize a physical volume
pvcreate /dev/mapper/luks
Create a volume group, we'll call it rootvg
vgcreate rootvg /dev/mapper/luks
Create swap -C makes continuous data blocks
lvcreate -n swap -L 8G -C y rootvg
Create a root partition (can resize later if you need, probably not)
lvcreate -n root -L 30G rootvg
Create /home partition (lower case -l this time)
lvcreate -n home -l 100%FREE rootvg
This formats home and root as ext4 filesystems. Then designates the swap partition as such, and enables the swap.
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/rootvg-home
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/rootvg-root
mkswap /dev/mapper/rootvg-swap
swapon /dev/mapper/rootvg-swap
Mount root to /mnt (this is the convention while installing)
mount /dev/mapper/rootvg-root /mnt
Make a boot and a home folder (two commands in one :) )
mkdir /mnt/{home,boot}
Mount home and boot
mount /dev/mapper/rootvg-home /mnt/home
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/boot
Install Arch some things needed for AUR repository and an easier text editor.
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel nano zsh grml-zsh-config tlp
Generate the fstab
genfstab -pU /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
Install the njkli repository and set the console font.
gpd-setup
Remote control your installation
arch-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/zsh
Install some packages related to the GPD
pacman -Syyu --force gpd-pocket-support linux-jwrdegoede-docs linux-jwrdegoede-headers
Then make the initramfs
mkinitcpio -p linux-jwrdegoede
Install the bootloader
bootctl install
Configure bootloader
First we want to write down the UUID of the partition with this weird command
blkid | grep mmcblk0p2 | cut -f2 -d\" > /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
Then edit the file
nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
You will only see the UUID. You can put it into nano's clipboard by pressing ctrl+k and paste it later using ctrl+u
title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux-jwrdegoede
initrd /initramfs-linux-jwrdegoede.img
options cryptdevice=UUID=xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-aaaa:luks root=/dev/mapper/rootvg-root quiet rw fbcon=rotate:1
paste the UUID in after options cryptdevice=UUID= and before :luks root=/dev/mapper/rootvg-root quiet rw fbcon=rotate:1
CTRL+x, then y then ↵ to save and exit
Make this the default boot entry
nano /boot/loader/loader.conf
Have the text be
timeout 2
default arch
CTRL+x, then y then ↵ to save and exit
Create your user
useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /usr/bin/zsh USERNAMEHERE
passwd USERNAMEHERE
Give this user sudo access
EDITOR=nano visudo
uncomment the line %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
CTRL+x, then y then ↵ to save and exit
set hostname
echo LOWERCASEHOSTNAMEHERE > /etc/hostname
set your timezone (use your own continent and city)
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Oslo /etc/localtime
Configure locale
nano /etc/locale.gen
Uncomment the lines en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and en_US ISO-8859-1
CTRL+x, then y then ↵ to save and exit
generate locales
locale-gen
set language
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
Congrats, you may now reboot the system. You can install whatever desktop enviornment you like, now or after reboot. Or you can reboot to test if its working, then boot into the USB again and take a backup of your install using clonezilla which is included on the USB.
After the reboot you may want to install pacaur to get access to AUR. Dont do this before rebooting, and dont do it as root.
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git
cd cower
makepkg -si
cd
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git
cd pacaur
makepkg -si
cd
rm -rf {cower,pacaur}
emanuelduss as basis for partitioning, encryption and bootloader.
Hans de Goede for making the kernel
njkli for compiling the kernel and updating it
u/sultanmvp for being awesome