artixinstall

Fully automated Artix Linux installer. Only supports en_US language but any timezone and keymap (derived from selection in the installer menu). Capable of encrypting installations and using the linux-hardened kernel.

Usage

1. Boot the Artix Installer.
2. Log in as root. The password is artix.
3. Use one of the methods listed below.
4. Once you get a green success message, reboot.

Basic Usage (BIOS / MBR)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HimbeerserverDE/artixinstall/main/artixinstall | sh

FDE (Full Disk Encryption) Usage (BIOS / MBR)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HimbeerserverDE/artixinstall/main/cryptinstall | sh

Basic Usage (UEFI / GPT)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HimbeerserverDE/artixinstall/main/uefiinstall | sh

FDE (Full Disk Encryption) Usage (UEFI / GPT)

WARNING: The EFI partition cannot be encrypted. This probably doesn't matter as long as nobody has physical access to the machine, but make sure not to store any information in /boot/efi by accident.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HimbeerserverDE/artixinstall/main/cryptuefiinstall | sh

Automated Install

This method works for all installation methods mentioned above.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HimbeerserverDE/artixinstall/main/<artix | uefi | crypt | cryptuefi>install | sh -s -- [drive [grubtarget]]

The UEFI scripts will ignore the GRUB target as they skip it completely.

Quirks

No UEFI boot entries on Dell Latitude E5270

For some unknown reason this laptop refuses to list or boot any entries created by efibootmgr. This most likely can't be fixed in this script. A workaround is to add the entries from the UEFI setup menu (select the EFI partition, it should be the first partition on the OS drive):

Traditional Install

• Artix Linux: \EFI\artix\artix-linux.efi
• Artix Linux (fallback initramfs): \EFI\artix\artix-linux-fallback.efi

Encrypted Install

• Artix Linux: \EFI\artix\artix-linux-hardened.efi
• Artix Linux (fallback initramfs): \EFI\artix\artix-linux-hardened-fallback.efi

Partition Layout

BIOS

BIOS installations follow this disk layout:

• /boot: ext4, 1 GiB
• /: btrfs, 100% - 1 GiB, compress=zstd, subvol=/root

If FDE is used both partitions are LUKS2 containers. The boot partition uses PBKDF2 as its key derivation function.

UEFI

UEFI installations follow this disk layout:

• /boot/efi: fat32, 1 GiB
• /: btrfs, 100% - 1 GiB, compress=zstd, subvol=/root