This small script helps install and configure archlinux. You just need:

• download archlinux.iso from official website, burn to cd or usb and boot
• login to livecd, retrieve ip and enable sshd
• wait for installation and than reboot
• remove installation media
• login to new system
• provide hostname, username, timezone and list of necessary packages for new system
• wait for configuring

The script will:

• Partition hard drive (100M for boot, ~2Gb for swap, rest for root)
• Install yandex mirror as first (useful for CIS countries)
• Install system, generate fstab, configure grub, adding ru_RU.UTF-8 locale, adding necessary lines to mkinicpio.conf, enable sshd and dhcpcd

After reboot, script will:

• Set hostname, timezone, localizing system to ru_RU.UTF-8
• Configure pacman to use multilib (only for x64)
• Create user, update system, install necessary packages (provided by user; also will install yajl and bash-completion), install X11 packages (xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils mesa-libgl), drivers for videocards (xf86-video-intel xf86-video-ati xf86-video-nouveau xf86-video-vesa and lib32-mesa-libgl only for x64), Xfce (xfce4 xfce4-goodies), fonts (ttf-liberation ttf-dejavu opendesktop-fonts ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-hanazono)
• Configure sudo (%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL)
• Install yaourt
• Allow to use ssh only to created user

• Installed python v2
• Installed paramiko (pip install paramiko)

python2 run.py