DeAndre Johnson drejohnson

Arch Linux on Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7 (i7-10710U)

Download the latest ISO from https://www.archlinux.org/download
sudo dd if=archlinux-2019.11.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sda bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync
Boot the ISO
IF and ONLY IF you have a 4k or some HiDPI screen and fonts are super super small
- ls /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts
- setfont latarcyrheb-sun32
ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars verifies we booted in UEFI

DISCLAIMER

I am not responsible for any damages, loss of data, system corruption, or any other mishap you may somehow cause by following this guide.

This is mainly a step-by-step reminder/log for myself of how I installed Arch on my laptop. I am putting this out there in case it is useful for someone else, it is not intended to be an official guide. As a result, you may find that this guide is very tedious or lists a lot of unnecessary/intuitive steps or just straight up does things in a way that is considered bad practice. Apart from the latter, this is intentional, as I did not find these steps intuitive at all when

Authentication with an Express API and Postgres

Setting Up

Let's make sure our Express app has the required base modules:

# within root of API
npm install --save express pg knex bcrypt
npm install --save-dev nodemon

	# The following code and the code generated art works are the intellectrual properities of Hailei Wang.
	# © 2009 - 2014, Hailei Wang. All rights reserved.

	from nodebox import geo
	colors = ximport("colors")

	# Define Brush
	def composeimage( x, y, colr, radius, points, diminish ) :
	nofill()
	stroke()

	# This guide will be using LVM on LUKS, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#LVM_on_LUKS

	# Download the archlinux-*.iso image from https://www.archlinux.org/download/ and its GnuPG signature.
	# Use gpg --verify to ensure your archlinux-*.iso is exactly what the Arch developers intended. For example:

	$ gpg -v archlinux-2019.11.01-x86_64.iso.sig

	# Burn the archlinux-*.iso to a 1+ Gb USB stick. On Mac, do something like:
	$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
	$ sudo dd bs=4m of=/dev/rdisk4 if=archlinux-2020.01.01-x86_64.iso

	# This guide will be using LVM on LUKS, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#LVM_on_LUKS

	# Download the archlinux-*.iso image from https://www.archlinux.org/download/ and its GnuPG signature.
	# Use gpg --verify to ensure your archlinux-*.iso is exactly what the Arch developers intended. For example:

	$ gpg -v archlinux-2019.11.01-x86_64.iso.sig

	# Burn the archlinux-*.iso to a 1+ Gb USB stick. On Mac, do something like:
	$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
	$ sudo dd bs=4m of=/dev/rdisk4 if=archlinux-2020.01.01-x86_64.iso

	// the main app file
	import express from "express";
	import loadDb from "./loadDb"; // dummy middleware to load db (sets request.db)
	import authenticate from "./authentication"; // middleware for doing authentication
	import permit from "./permission"; // middleware for checking if user's role is permitted to make request

	const app = express(),
	api = express.Router();

	// first middleware will setup db connection

	# Install ARCH Linux with encrypted file-system and UEFI
	# The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description.

	# Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/
	# Copy to a usb-drive
	dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux

	# Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration.

	# Set swedish keymap

	# ========================================================
	# Setup a Dumb AP, Wired backbone for OpenWRT / LEDE
	# ========================================================
	# Set lan logical interface as bridge (to allow bridge multiple physical interfaces)
	uci set network.lan.type='bridge'
	# assign WAN physical interface to LAN (will be available as an additional LAN port now)
	uci set network.lan.ifname="$(uci get network.lan.ifname) $(uci get network.wan.ifname)"
	uci del network.wan.ifname
	# Remove wan logical interface, since we will not need it.
	uci del network.wan

	#!/bin/sh

	set -e

	# you may want upgrade netifd first

	# timezone
	TIMEZONE=HKT-8

	# override shadowsocks server config