Initial setup critique

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Initial setup critique

Postby winksaville » Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:32 pm

I followed the "standard installation instructions", raspberry-pi-2, for setting up the sd-card, the first boot and using pacman-key. But then looked for instructions on what to do next, such as setting up a "real" user instead of "alarm", change passwords and setup sudo. For that I used the "Initial Setup on Raspberry Pi" section of these instructions.

That worked well enough, but it seems to me those additional instructions should be included in the "standard installation instructions" and should be common across all of the platforms. I'm willing to volunteer to take a stab making the necessary changes if people agree it is a good idea.
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Re: Initial setup critique

Postby solskogen » Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:24 pm

For the rest of the setup, look at the upstream wiki (Arch Linux) at http://wiki.archlinux.org
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Re: Initial setup critique

Postby winksaville » Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:44 pm

I've install Arch Linux on several desktop and laptop computers and the instructions for setting up the Pi were unlike anything I have done before.

What are the first few steps you'd recommend a first time user of Arch Linux do and what page would the person find those instructions at archlinux.org?
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Re: Initial setup critique

Postby graysky » Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:04 pm

Initial installation is different Arch ARM vs Arch. Once installed and up-to-date nothing is operationally different.
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Re: Initial setup critique

Postby winksaville » Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:36 pm

Agreed "Once installed ...", but after the initial boot the state is quite different from any Arch Linux I've installed and it seems to me there should be a few more lines of instructions to get to a more "typical" state. My opinion the changes should be something like:

Change root password:
# passwd

Change alarm password:
# passwd alarm

Rename alarm to <newname>
# usermod -l newname alarm

Rename /home/alarm directory to /home/newname
# usermod -d /home/newname -m newname

Change owner of /home/newname directory
# chown -R newname:users /home/newname

Update system
# pacman -Syu

At this point the system would be in a "typical" state, what would you suggest?
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Re: Initial setup critique

Postby graysky » Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:17 pm

What do you want to achieve beyond what you've done?
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Re: Initial setup critique

Postby winksaville » Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:30 pm

My suggestion is to add something like those additional commands to the "Installation" documentation. I'm willing to attempt to do that if you'd like.
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