About Archx

Archx is a archlinux installer script which helps you to install archlinux while your offline, further more, it uses fakepkg to extract packages from archlinux ISO you booted, in addition, it conveys all packages to /mnt , on the other hand you are not forced to use pacstrap script thus you'll have all needed packages installed!

archlinux offline installer

• Design your hard disk layout with cfdisk or parted or gdisk (for GPT disks) or fdisk

• Format your partitions with mkfs (make file systems) (e.g. : mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4 or mkswap /dev/sda7)

• Mount the partitions on /mnt

(i.e. you have four partitions like below:

partition	mountpoint
/dev/sda4	/boot
/dev/sda5	/
/dev/sda6	/home
/dev/sda7	swap area

mount /dev/sda5 /mnt

mkdir /mnt/{home,boot}

mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/home

mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/boot

swapon /dev/sda7

)

• Download master branch zipped file, unzip it, change working directory to archx-master and run installer script : (or download it now and use it later)

curl -Lsko master.zip https://github.com/malijani/archx/archive/master.zip && unzip master.zip && cd archx-master/archx && ./installer

You can read script's source before running it to see what will happen ... : cat installer
Also if you need to do your chroot customizations automatically, you can run following command in chroot environment : /tmp/auto_chroot

• When your customization finished you can exit and unmount devices with umount -R /mnt then reboot system to use your installed archlinux.

• For using pacman (if you didn't execute auto_chroot) as the first time run these commands :

pacman -Sy

pacman-key --init

pacman-key --populate archlinux

pacman-key --refresh-keys

• To use the AUR packages just take a look at trizen/trizen