tui-install.sh:
- Reads /answerfile.json if present (ANSWERFILE_MODE)
- All dialog selections (components, DE, apps) sourced from file
- Hostname from answerfile gets MAC address suffix appended to
prevent conflicts when deploying one image to multiple machines
- Interactive hostname inputbox added to the normal TUI flow
- Colorway dialog added as final step; skipped if no colors differ
from defaults and no answerfile colors are set
- Answerfile mode: runs non-interactively, logs warnings on failure
generate-answerfile.sh (new):
- Dry-runs the full installer dialog flow (OS + dotfiles)
- Writes selections to ~/answerfile.json (or a given path)
- No software is installed; passwords are never written to the file
build.sh:
- New --preconf [FILE] flag embeds an answerfile into the ISO at
/answerfile.json; omitting the flag leaves the ISO clean
- Validates JSON with jq if available before embedding
- Reworked arg parsing to handle the new flag alongside OUT_DIR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/tmp in WSL is a RAM-backed tmpfs that fills up during the build,
leaving xorriso with no room to write the ISO.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/tmp fills up during large builds; allow redirecting both dirs without
editing the script (WORK_DIR=~/iso-work ./build.sh ~/iso-out).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace five deprecated boot mode names with the canonical 'bios.syslinux'
and 'uefi.systemd-boot', removing the ia32 grub mode that required grub
installed and conflicted with systemd-boot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New optional modules: ssh-server (openssh, key auth hardened), docker
(+ compose, docker group), podman (rootless, buildah, skopeo, lingering),
cockpit (+ cockpit-machines, cockpit-podman, cockpit-navigator via AUR)
- openssh added to archiso packages.extra for live-env SSH access
- less added to pacstrap base install
- tui-install.sh wired up for all four new modules (checklist, count,
summary, run); dialog dimensions bumped to fit 17 items
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add setup/archiso/ with build.sh, releng overlay, motd, and
install-arch launcher command for the live ISO
- Fix cryptroot mapper name in arch-autoinstall.sh (was 'root',
breaking all subsequent mounts)
- Add base-devel to pacstrap in both installers (required for yay/makepkg)
- Clone dotfiles inside chroot so tui-install.sh is available immediately
- After base install, offer to run tui-install.sh as the regular user
inside the chroot via runuser, with a temporary NOPASSWD sudoers rule;
skip option available for base-only installs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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