playbook

🏗️ Ansible playbook to set up dev machine

1. Add SSH key from local machine to GitHub.
2. Ensure SSH key in running agent: eval $(ssh-agent -s) && ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
3. Clone repo: git clone git@github.com:nixpig/playbook.git && cd $_
4. Install pre-requisite packages: ./install.sh
5. Run playbook: ansible-playbook local.yml --ask-vault-pass --ask-become-pass

Note: when installing in default Arch running on WSL2, may need to also set LC_ALL="C.UTF-8".

Assumes a working base Arch install...

1. Boot from install image
2. Set keyboard layout: loadkeys uk
3. Set root password: passwd
4. Partition hard disk:
5. Run partitioning utility: fdisk
6. Add a new EFI boot partition: n
7. Select primary: p
8. Set partition number: 1
9. Set first sector: 2048
10. Set last sector: +512M
11. Add a new root partition: n
12. Select primary: p
13. Set partition number: 2
14. Set first sector as default: <enter>
15. Set last sector as default: <enter>
16. Write the partition table: w
17. Format partitions:
18. Format EFI partition as FAT: mkfs.fat /dev/sda1
19. Format the root partition as ext4: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
20. Mount the partitions:
21. Mount root partition: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
22. Create mount point for EFI boot partition: mkdir /mnt/boot
23. Mount the EFI boot partition: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
24. Bootstrap the base system: pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware dhcpcd openssh vim ..

Installing virtualbox/vagrant

1. Install kernel headers: pacman -S linux-rt-headers

2. Install virtualbox: pacman -S virtualbox

3. Load modules: modprobe vboxdrv

4. Install vagrant: from Hashicorp package - pacman version is outdated and doesn't work

5. Add user to group: usermod -aG vboxusers $USER

6. Reboot!