Installing Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi 4, using macOS

[Zoc]

Hi there

I wrote a beginner friendly guide on how to install Arch Linux to a Raspberry Pi 4, using macOS as the auxiliary system.

https://gist.github.com/TheZoc/849a82d3eed219998cd82fb4040607ae


It took me awhile to get things working, so I hope this helps someone out there!


I didn't find a way to start up wpa_supplicant/dhcpcd automatically on boot for wifi connections, in a reliable way.
If someone could give some help in that area, it would be much appreciated

[karog]

I just did it for an RPi Zero W. This assumes your arch is running systemd and that your WiFi device is wlan0.

Create the file /etc/systemd/network/wlan0.network with contents
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[Match]
Name=wlan0

[Network]
DHCP=yes
')
then execute the following commands
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'wpa_passphrase "<SSID>" "<PASSWORD>" > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf

sudo systemctl enable wpa_supplicant@wlan0
')where <SSID> and <PASSWORD> are the for your WiFi Access Point

That 2nd command will init the WiFi at boot.

You can start it manually with
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo systemctl start wpa_supplicant@wlan0')

[Zoc]

Hi @karog!

Thank you! This actually works perfectly!

I noticed that the line
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant@.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/wpa_supplicant@wlan0.service')

is the same as
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'systemctl enable wpa_supplicant@wlan0')

Is that right?

Thanks again!

Edit: You updated your initial post, I guess this is correct. Thanks again!

[thor314]

Damn dude, thanks! Someone other than me struggling and sharing how to avoid that is exactly what I needed to kick off my weekend.

[karog]

@zoc some comments on your gist Part 2

step 1: timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London

step 6: localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

step 7: hostnamectl set-hostname <name>

[thor314]

Hey @Zoc, I'd like to know what led you partition the disk like this
sudo diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 MBR fat32 "BOOT" 100m UFSD_EXTFS4 "root" 0b
I've read online that MBR is generally older and inferior to GPT, and I'm curious why the BOOT ought to be fat32 as opposed to ext4, as with the root dir.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('karog', '@')zoc some comments on your gist Part 2

step 1: timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London

step 6: localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

step 7: hostnamectl set-hostname <name>

[thor314]

@Zoc tried a couple times with GPT, playing with different file system choices, but no dice. Cheers