archlinuxarm-installer

Universal, automatic installer for ArchLinux ARM

archlinuxARM-installer is the tool to install ArchLinuxARM automatically on supported devices. It was designed primarily to assist with the installation of ARM clusters.

Primary Features:

• Multiple instances of archlinuxARM-installer installing to multiple block devices with different board models are supported.
• If a file does not exist in image directory, the tool will download it automatically for you.

Planned Features:

• Progress bar instead of boring logs.
• Security improvements whenever sudo is involved.
• Data validation to avoid oopsie moments like dd the root disk.
• Support the remaining board in res/

Why Bash?

Bash isn't the brightest choice for this kind of programming. But this tool involves calling (the syscalls underneath of) fdisk & dd that don't really have any binding in any languages except for C. So Bash is the fastest way here.
There is pyparted from RedHat. But it's ~3000 commits, 3 languages Python/C/C++, >10 years old without a single line of documentations or up-to-date comments.

DISCLAIMER:

• BE EXTRA CAREFUL WHEN SPECIFIYING BLOCK DEVICE.
• SPECIFIYING THE WRONG BLOCK DEVICE SUCH AS YOUR LAPTOP'S ROOT DISK WILL BE DISASTROUS.
• BE CAREFUL.
• WHY DON'T I JUST BLOCK /dev/sda? Well, systemd.

Usage: archlinuxARM-installer [OPTION]

• This tool requires sudo to root privileges.
• An image directory is supposed to looks exactly like http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ in order to be recognized. Just download any images you need and keep the same directory hierarchy.
• To download and keep directory hierarchy, you can use this wget command like below

$     wget -q -xnH --cut-dirs=1 --show-progress --progress=bar \
        http://sg.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/sunxi/boot/cubieboard2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin\
        -P "${img_path}"

Options:

-h print out this help message
-l select log level (debug, info, warning, error)
-d path to ArchLinuxARM image directory
-b path to block device to be installed (/dev/sdX)
-m board model name

Example:

$ sudo ./src/archlinuxARM-installer -d /home/stk/dwnl/imgs/ -b /dev/sdb -m odroid_xu4

Supported devices:

 notes:
Device names are taken from their ArchLinuxARM.org page URL, with "-" replaced by "_"
Please feel free to send PR or feature request for new board support

• a10_olinuxino_lime
• a20_olinuxino_lime
• a20_olinuxino_lime2
• a20_olinuxino_micro
• beagleboard
• beagleboard_xm
• beaglebone
• beaglebone_black
• beaglebone_black_wireless
• beaglebone_green
• beaglebone_green_wireless
• clearfog
• cubieboard
• cubieboard_2
• cubietruck
• cubox_i
• odroid_c1
• odroid_c2
• odroid_hc1
• odroid_hc2
• odroid_u2
• odroid_u3
• odroid_x
• odroid_x2
• odroid_xu
• odroid_xu3
• odroid_xu4
• pandaboard
• pcduino3
• raspberry_pi
• raspberry_pi_2
• raspberry_pi_3