c101pa setup

These scripts help setting up an ASUS Chromebook c101pa with Arch Linux. Based on https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/rockchip/asus-chromebook-flip-c101pa

After formating the external microSD card to use all available space (all data will be lost, this will install git + ansible so it can run a playbook to setup the system.

Basic config includes:

• hostname/timezone
• sudo user(s) w/o password!
• some usefull packages: openssh-client, alsa-utils etc

TODO

Some ideas:

• TEST!
• reduce prompts and other interceptions (automated downloads etc)
• custom disk partitioning
• home/full disk encryption (can it handle it?)
• change root password
• install/configure X and WM

Installation

After following the steps from https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/rockchip/asus-chromebook-flip-c101pa to enable devloper mode and boot from external storage.

• Download the arch-setup.sh script and execute as root

cd /tmp
curl -OL https://bit.ly/2B7hC6F
# aka the long URL below
# curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bikochan/c101pa/master/install.sh
bash install.sh

Initial setup

• Reboot into Arch linux but pressing ctrl-u at the splash screen

• login as root using the default password: root)

• Change root password

• Start wifi

wifi-menu

• Execute the setup.sh script as root

./setup.sh

• Edit the all YAML file to customise the system a bit

• Run ansible playbook

ansible-playbook -v setup.yaml --vault-password-file=<vault-id-file>

Building vscode

pacman -S nodejs npm libsecret python2 gcc make yarn native-keymap
mkdir ~/.npm-global
echo '{}' > package.json

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode.git
cd vscode
yarn
yarn run watch