User:PMay/Hetzner step by step

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Start and log into the Hetzner Rescue System

• log in to robot: https://robot.your-server.de/
• activate 64bit linux rescue system
• copy and paste the password given to you by the robot
• restart your server
• log in with ssh

 # ssh -l root <your_ip_or_hostname>

Disk after Debian LAMP installation

Your disk looks like this after the default debian LAMP installation:

 /dev/sda1 1gb swap
 /dev/sda2 500mb boot
 /dev/sda3 19gb root

Install the bootstrap system

• now we use the root partition (/dev/sda1) to install the bootstrap system

 # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
 # mkdir /arch
 # mount /dev/sda1 /arch

• find a mirror with the 64bit bootstrap system: https://www.archlinux.org/download/ and download it

 # cd /arch
 # curl -O http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/iso/2013.12.01/archlinux-bootstrap-2013.12.01-x86_64.tar.gz

• check the md5 sum

 # md5sum archlinux-bootstrap-2013.12.01-x86_64.tar.gz

• if the md5sum is ok unpack the tar archive

 # tar xvfz archlinux-bootstrap-2013.12.01-x86_64.tar.gz

• edit the mirror list - you can use this to check the best mirrors for you: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

 # nano root.x86_64/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

• changeroot into the rescue system

 # /arch/root.x86_64/bin/arch-chroot /arch/root.x86_64/

basic installation

• make file system for boot and root

 # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
 # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

• mount the partitions

 # mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
 # mkdir /mnt/boot 
 # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot

• init the pacman key

 # pacman-key --init

• open second ssh console on the rescue system and type

 # find / -name foo

• this is to generate some entropy
• continue with

 # pacman-key --populate archlinux

• and this this (for some strange reason)

 # mkdir /run/shm

• now install the system

 # pacstrap /mnt base
 # pacstrap /mnt base-devel
 # pacstrap /mnt syslinux
 # pacstrap /mnt net-tools
 # pacstrap /mnt openssh

• create fstab

 # genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

• chroot again into the new system

 # arch-chroot /mnt

• white yout hostname to /etc/hostname

 # nano /etc/hostname

• set timezone - for example:

 # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime

• create and edit /etc/locale.conf

 # nano /etc/locale.conf

• enter

 LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"

• edit /etc/locale.gen

 # nano /etc/locale.gen

• and remove the comments infront of en_US.UTF-8 and de_DE.UTF-8
• run locale-gen

 # locale-gen

• run mkinitcpio (and ignore the two warnungs in the fallback section)

 # mkinitcpio -p linux

• install syslinux

 # syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

Set Passwords and add User

• set password for root

 # passwd

• add your normal user

 # useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash <your_username>

• set password for the user

 # passwd <your_username>

Set DNS

• det DNS name in /etc/resolv.conf

 # name /etc/resolv.conf