Installation of minimal Crux 3.2 Gnu\Linux system, with selected packages from core, opt and contrib ports. Process of installation documented can be executed from iso or from existing gnu\linux installation. Read Hand book 3.2, .
If you are booting from crux iso and is not your keyboard layout of choice run;
# loadkeys dvorak
$ curl -k -O https://serverop.de/crux/crux-3.2/iso/crux-3.2.iso
$ curl -k -O https://serverop.de/crux/crux-3.2/iso/crux-3.2.md5
$ md5sum crux-3.2.iso
2e4144590f6b340de2580255ad21620e crux-3.2.iso
Prepare disk or target location where new system will be installed. Follow steps describe how to create efi and separate partitions such as; bios grub, EFI, swap, boot, root, var, usr and home. Information about gpt partition table.
Create gpt label and set unit size to use;
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) unit mib
Partition used by grub boot loader. Partition size 2M;
mkpart primary 1 3
name 1 grub
set 1 bios_grub on
EFI System Partition, ESP type EF00. Partition with between 500M and 100M is recommended for standard installations. Partition size 128M;
(parted) mkpart ESP fat32 3 131
(parted) name 2 boot
(parted) set 2 boot on
Swap partition general advice is same size as memory ram, ports system configured to build on ram need at least 34G to build firefox. Other swap partitions can be added later for port build on ram. Partition size 512M;
(parted) mkpart primary linux-swap 131 643
(parted) name 3 swap
Boot partition. Partition with 1G provide room for kernels and crux iso that can be directly boot from grub (without root partition). Partition size 1G;
(parted) mkpart primary ext4 643 1667
(parted) name 4 boot
Normal core crux installation root partition uses approximately 2G, without /usr 200MB-500M. Minimum 2G is recommended. Partition size 2.4G;
(parted) mkpart primary ext4 1667 4096
(parted) name 5 root
Core system can be installed from here, additional partitions can be created now or later.
Var partition is recommended 100MiB-500MiB. Partition size 1G;
(parted) mkpart primary ext4 4096 5120
(parted) name 6 var
User partition with 4G-8G is recommended for a desktop setup, we will use 8G;
(parted) mkpart primary ext4 5120 13312
(parted) name 7 usr
Home partition can have limited size for later creation of lvm or fill the rest of disk space;
(parted) mkpart primary ext4 13312 -1
(parted) name 8 home
$ export BLK_EFI=/dev/sda2
$ export BLK_SWAP=/dev/sda3
$ export BLK_BOOT=/dev/sda4
$ export BLK_ROOT=/dev/sda5
$ export BLK_VAR=/dev/sda6
$ export BLK_USR=/dev/sda7
$ export BLK_HOME=/dev/sda8
$ sudo mkfs.fat -F 32 $BLK_EFI
$ sudo mkswap $BLK_SWAP
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 $BLK_BOOT
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 $BLK_ROOT
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 $BKL_VAR
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 $BKL_USR
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 $BKL_HOME
$ export CHROOT=/mnt
$ sudo mount $BLK_ROOT $CHROOT
Create directories and mount target partitions;
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/boot
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/var
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/usr
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/media
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/home
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/dev
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/tmp
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/proc
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/sys
$ sudo mount $BLK_BOOT $CHROOT/boot
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/boot/efi
$ sudo mount $BLK_EFI $CHROOT/boot/efi
$ sudo mount $BLK_VAR $CHROOT/var
$ sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/var/lib/pkg
$ sudo mount $BLK_USR $CHROOT/usr
$ sudo mount $BLK_HOME $CHROOT/home
Activate Chroot;
$ sudo mount --bind /dev $CHROOT/dev
$ sudo mount -vt devpts devpts $CHROOT/dev/pts
$ sudo mount -vt tmpfs shm $CHROOT/dev/shm
$ sudo mount -vt proc proc $CHROOT/proc
$ sudo mount -vt sysfs sysfs $CHROOT/sys
Mount iso on target partition;
# modprobe isofs
# modprobe loop
# mount -o loop crux-3.2.iso $CHROOT/media
Create file $CHROOT/core.lst containing list of binary packages present in $CHROOT/media/crux/core/;
$ sudo for p in $CHROOT/media/crux/core/*; do echo $p << $CHROOT/core.lst; done
Install temporary pkgadd on $CHROOT;
$ sudo tar xf /media/crux/core/pkgutils#5.36-2.pkg.tar.xz usr/bin/pkgadd -O > $CHROOT/pkgadd
$ sudo chmod +x $CHROOT/pkgadd
Edit $CHROOT/core.lst with your preferences, you can remove or add packages from opt collection. Remove lilo if you want grub;
/mnt/iso/crux/core/lilo#24.1-3.pkg.tar.xz
Create package database, it will contain a list of i nstalled packages files.
$ sudo touch $CHROOT/var/lib/pkg/db
Install all packages listed in $CHROOT/core.lst;
$ su
# cd $CHROOT
while read line; do
printf "Installing $line;\n"
$CHROOT/pkgadd -f -r $CHROOT $line
done < core.lst
Install additional ports like wireless-tools, grub2 and fakeroot
cp $CHROOT/media/crux/opt/* $CHROOT/usr/ports/packages
cp $CHROOT/media/crux/xorg/* $CHROOT/usr/ports/packages
Install fakeroot and create user account, read ;
# pkgadd /media/crux/opt/fakeroot#1.20.2-1.pkg.tar.xz
# chroot /mnt /bin/bash
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/dbus#1.10.2-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/expat#2.1.0-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/libnl#3.2.27-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/libpng#1.6.19-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/freetype#2.6.1-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/libffi#3.2.1-2.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/sqlite3#3.9.2-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/python#2.7.10-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/glib#2.46.2-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/grub2#2.00-7.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/grub2-efi#2.00-4.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/wireless-tools#29-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/wpa_supplicant#2.5-2.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/lvm2#2.02.133-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/mdadm#3.3.4-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/efivar#0.21-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/efibootmgr#0.12-1.pkg.tar.xz
pkgadd /usr/ports/packages/dosfstools#3.0.26-1.pkg.tar.xz
# exit
$ sudo rm $CHROOT/pkgadd
$ sudo rm $CHROOT/core.lst
Create c9 ports;
$ sudo mkdir $CHROOT/usr/ports/c9-ports
Copy ports from c9-doc/core/ports;
$ sudo cp -r ports/* $CHROOT/usr/ports/c9-ports/
$ sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf $CHROOT/etc
$ sudo cp $CHROOT/media/crux/handbook.txt $CHROOT/home/root/
Copy skeletons from c9-doc/core/conf;
$ sudo cp -R conf/skel $CHROOT/etc/
Core OS Index
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