PCSETUP

Usage

Pre-requisites

• An Arch Linux installation with internet access
• Create an user with the name you desires using useradd <NAME> -m
• Add this user to the sudoers list

First time only

• At the root dir run make preconfig
  • Creates sudo group and add the current user to it as several ansible steps will require sudo
  • Create a super user that can run sudo passwordless. This is require to properly make pacaur work without asking sudo password
  • Update the system
  • Install ansible
• If you are not me, you need to set your own personal information
  • Specially set the vault files and password

Everyday

• ansible-playbook <HOST PLAYBOOK> -K

Known issues features

Firewall (UFW)

• Locks you out of Vagrant box after rebooting the machine
  • Going through the VirtualBox's gui, disable UFW (sudo ufw disable) and reload the box (vagrant reload)
• CUPS network printer discovery
  • Simplest thing is to disable UFW while setting up the printer (sudo ufw disable), set it up and enable UFW back (sudo ufw enable). After configured the printer should stay working
  • If you know the printer network address and model (for driver choosing), you can go through CUPS configuration process

Managed machines

• BURN-E (Notebook)
  • Specs
    • Intel Core i7 2620M
    • Geforce GT 520M
    • 8 GB RAM
    • 240 GB SSD
    • 640 GB HDD
  • Statistics (v1.0.0)
    • Boot time: < 20s
    • Mem. usage after boot: ~190MB
    • Expected battery life: ~3h
    • Disk usage: 8.6GB
• WALL-A (Desktop)
  • Specs
    • AMD FX8320E
    • Geforce GTX 1050
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 256 GB SSD
    • 300 GB HDD
    • 1 TB RAID1 HDD
  • Statistics (v1.6.1)
    • Boot time: < 23s
    • Mem. usage after boot: ~260MB
    • Disk usage: 11.5GB