New-Cli-Installer/README.md

cachyos-new-installer

CLI net-installer for CachyOS, inspired by manjaro-architect

This installer provides online installation for CachyOS.

Libraries used in this project

• Functional Terminal (X) User interface used for TUI.
• A modern formatting library used for formatting strings, output and logging.
• Fast C++ logging library used for logging process of the installer.
• Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second used for config deserialization.
• Curl for People used for connection check and maybe in future fetching netinstall config from github.
• Ranges used for ranges support with clang.

Simple menu overview:

TODO: should be simple as calamares

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Advanced menu overview:

Main Menu
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├── Prepare Installation
|   ├── Set Virtual Console (TODO)
|   ├── List Devices
|   ├── Partition Disk
|   ├── RAID (WIP)
|   ├── LUKS Encryption (WIP)
|   ├── Logical Volume Management (WIP)
|   ├── Mount Partitions
|   ├── Configure Installer Mirrorlist (TODO)
|   |   ├── Edit Pacman Configuration
|   |   ├── Edit Pacman Mirror Configuration
|   |   └── Rank Mirrors by Speed
|   |
│   └── Refresh Pacman Keys (TODO)
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├── Install System
│   ├── Install Base Packages
│   ├── Install Desktop
│   ├── Install Bootloader
│   ├── Configure Base
|   │   ├── Generate FSTAB (seems broken)
|   │   ├── Set Hostname
|   │   ├── Set System Locale (WIP)
|   │   ├── Set Timezone and Clock
|   │   ├── Set Root Password
|   │   └── Add New User(s) (seems broken)
|   │
│   ├── Install Custom Packages
│   ├── System Tweaks (TODO)
|   │   ├── Enable Automatic Login
|   │   ├── Enable Hibernation
|   │   ├── Performance
|   |   │   ├── I/O schedulers
|   |   │   ├── Swap configuration
|   |   │   └── Preload
|   |   │
|   │   ├── Security and systemd Tweaks
|   |   │   ├── Amend journald Logging
|   |   │   ├── Disable Coredump Logging
|   |   │   └── Restrict Access to Kernel Logs
|   |   │
|   │   └── Restrict Access to Kernel Logs
|   │
│   ├── Review Configuration Files (TODO)
│   └── Chroot into Installation (TODO)
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└── System Rescue
    ├── Install Hardware Drivers (TODO)
    │   ├── Install Display Drivers
    │   └── Install Network Drivers
    |
    ├── Install Bootloader
    ├── Configure Base
    |   └── ... (see 'Install System')
    │
    ├── Install Custom Packages
    ├── Remove Packages
    ├── Review Configuration Files (TODO)
    ├── Chroot into Installation (TODO)
    ├── Data Recovery (TODO)
    │   └── Btrfs snapshots..
    │
    └── View System Logs (TODO)
        ├── Dmesg
        ├── Pacman log
        ├── Xorg log
        └── Journalctl