archinstall.sh

#!/bin/bash

# setting the keyboard layout to UK
loadkeys uk
echo set keyboard layout to UK

#ensures that the system clock is accurate
timedatectl set-ntp true
clear

#disk partitioning

#displays all of the drives
fdisk -l
echo which drive would you like to install Arch on?
read installDrive
clear

#actual partitioning - presumes 250GB drive
boot='1'
swap='2'
root='3'

bootPartition='$installDrive$boot'
rootPartition='$installDrive$root'
swapPartition='$installDrive$swap'

parted $installDrive
mklabel gpt

#boot
mkpart primary fat32 1MiB 551MiB
set 1 esp on

#swap
mkpart primary linux-swap 551MiB 17.5GiB

#root
mkpart primary ext4 17.5GiB 100%

quit

#formatting
mkswap $swapPartition
swapon $swapPartition

mkfs.ext4 $rootPartition

#mounting
mount $rootPartition /mnt
mount $bootPartition /mnt/efi

#install
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

#config time!!!

#generating fstab
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

#get into the newly installed OS
arch-chroot /mnt

#set timezone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB
hwclock --systohc

#locale shit
nano /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen

touch /etc/locale.conf
echo LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf

echo KEYMAP=uk > /etc/vconsole.conf

#network config
touch /etc/hostname
echo myles-arch > /etc/hostname

echo 127.0.0.1 localhost > /etc/hosts
echo ::1 localhost > /etc/hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 myles-arch.localdomain myles-arch > /etc/hosts

#password
echo set the root password:
passwd

#installing reflector then getting fastest mirrors
pacman -S reflector
reflector --latest 200 --protocol http --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#installing intel microcode for stability
pacman -S intel-ucode

#installing bootloader
pacman -S grub
grub-install $installDrive
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

#update system
pacman -Syu

clear

#installing the DE and display server
pacman -S xorg xorg-server

pacman -S budgie-desktop
pacman -S lightdm
systemctl start lightdm.service
systemctl enable lightdm.service

#install nvidia driver
pacman -S nvidia lib32-nvidia-utils

exit
reboot