MonakhOS: My general workstation environment

Code name given on 2024-05-16 : "MonakhOS"

Architecture:

Sway
Support of dots file repository
A single venv in dots containing all utilities and libs

Getting started with a VM (qemu)

Cd in sandbox_vms/vm1

Create the QCow base image.

../../ansible/run_ansible_playbook.sh base.img

Run the image, use remmina to install with archinstall.

With Archinstall add:

desktop profile
- sway
- ly greeter
networkmanager

Create snapshot to be able to quickly restart the ansible script with a clean image

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b base.img -F qcow2 after_arch_install.img

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b after_arch_install.img -F qcow2 after_ssh_init.img

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b after_ssh_init.img -F qcow2 ready_for_ansible.img

Steps to install

find a new name for the device eg. blackjack
install with archinstall to initialize the computer
- use the profiles defined in archinstall_configs
connect to the internet
enable an ssh server to access it from the ansible runner host
on the host, generate a private ssh key
add the public key on the target host
create a target directory in target directory
configure vars.yaml, see example vars file
create on the host, the private ssh key that will be installed on target
add this sshkey to your forge that host your dots file, eg. forge.lefuturiste.fr

Generate a unprotected default ssh key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "mbess@blackjack"

no passphrase

ECDSA-SK, Ed25519 and Ed25519-SK keys have a fixed length and the -b flag will be ignored.

Configure ~/.ssh/config

# set as default
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unprotected_ed25519

Host *
    ServerAliveInterval 40

Host forge.lefuturiste.fr
    user git
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unprotected_ed25519

Host aur.archlinux.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_aur
    User aur

Pacman packages

defined in dots file

arch_packages.yaml

categories: commons, work

Sway

swayidle

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68694093/how-to-prevent-swayidle-from-execution-while-watching-a-film

Greeter

Ly is a TUI greeter, it will show a terminal based login prompt

https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

Ansible

auto run archinstall with ansible

question: how to overwrite the drive config and set it to auto ?

https://archinstall.archlinux.page/

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