sizur / archlinux-vbox-setup

Setup ArchLinux VirtualBox

archlinux-vbox-setup

Setup VirtualBox ArchLinux Guest with XMonad, Emacs, rxvt-unicode, oh-my-zsh, tmux customizations from https://github.com/sizur/dotfiles

Installation

1. Get latest VBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2. Check checksum
3. Get latest ISO from https://www.archlinux.org/download/
4. Check checksum
5. Create new VM without EFI support
6. Boot the new VM
7. If you are on Wifi, setup connection with https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration
8. Run HOSTNAME=<hostname> NAMEUSER=<username> zsh -c "$(wget -O - https://goo.gl/mEkAm9)"
9. The installer will ask for new root and NAMEUSER passwords
10. Once presented with oh-my-zsh successful installation, type exit.
11. When the installer will restart, make sure you dont boot from the ISO.

Variables

• NAMEUSER: Username. Defaults to sizur. It's called NAMEUSER to avoid name collision of existing env vars.
• DEVICE: What device to install to. Defaults to /dev/sda. ATTENTION: this will rease your data!
• SWAP_GB: Size of swap partition in GiB. Defaults to 2. Assuming no hybernation.
• ROOT_GB: Size of the Root partition in GiB. Defaults to 20.
• HOSTNAME: Defaults to arch-vbox.
• DOMAIN : Used to resolve naked hostnames. Defaults to none. Can list more than one using a string with a space separator.
• TIMEZONE: Defaults to America/Los_Angeles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
• LOCALE: Defaults to en_US.UTF-8

Usage

After login, type startx to enter the XMonad.

Modifiers:

• W is the Windows key.
• C is the Ctrl key.
• M is the Alt key.
• S is the Shift key.

The following are my most frequently used commands.

XMonad

• W-1, W-2, etc... Switches XMonad desktops.
• W-S-Enter opens a new terminal.
• W-p runs dmenu so you can execute any windowed application.
• W-S-c kills current window.
• M-C-c copies current selection to clipboard.
• W-Tab focus next window.
• W-S-Tab focus previous window.
• W-Space change to next layout.
• W-q reload xmonad configuration.
• W-S-q exit xmonad.