Add fws-setup-hardware script that automatically detects and installs:
- GPU drivers (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) based on lspci output
- Hypervisor guest tools (VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU, Hyper-V)
- Audio/mic/headset stack (PipeWire), Bluetooth (BlueZ), containers (Podman)
- Optional desktop stack when non-CLI desktop is selected: Steam, Wine, VR support (Monado/OpenXR), and winboat-bin
The script is integrated into the Anaconda kickstart post-installation phase and is non-blocking to prevent installation failures from missing packages or network issues.
Also update profiledef.sh to set correct permissions (755) for the new script.
Add Hyprland desktop environment support with:
- New hyprland.conf template with keyboard layout placeholders (__KB_LAYOUT__ and __KB_VARIANT__) that get injected during installation
- Hyprland wrapper script (/usr/local/bin/fws-hyprland) that detects virtual machines and forces software rendering to prevent compositor crashes on virtual GPUs (VMware vmwgfx, VirtualBox)
- Automatic configuration deployment to /etc/skel and existing user home directories
- Refactored keyboard layout detection logic (moved to section 3bis) to support both X11/SDDM and Hyprland configurations
- Added locale generation during installation to ensure proper language support
Keyboard layout is now derived from either kickstart configuration or system locale using langtable, providing consistent keyboard behavior across all desktop environments.
- Fix XFCE display manager: replace lightdm-gtk-greeter with sddm for consistency
- Add SDDM numlock initialization for KDE, XFCE, and Hyprland
- Configure X11 keyboard layout from kickstart or locale via langtable to ensure correct SDDM login keyboard
- Enable wheel group sudo access and add all human users to wheel group
- Apply FWS branding to os-release, lsb-release, and GRUB configuration
- Remove inappropriate live system motd file
- Fix DNS resolution: configure systemd-resolved stub resolver with NetworkManager integration to prevent "Limited Connectivity" on first boot
- Reformat case statement for better readability
Implement a new Anaconda spoke that allows users to select their preferred desktop environment (CLI, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Hyprland, or XFCE) during installation.
The spoke:
- Displays radio buttons for five desktop choices with CLI as the default
- Persists the selection to /tmp/fws-desktop for the kickstart %post script
- Supports revisiting the spoke and resuming previous selections
- Includes a GTK UI definition file (glade) with translatable labels
- Integrates as a SoftwareCategory spoke in the Anaconda installer
The implementation leverages Anaconda's runtime spoke discovery mechanism via the airootfs overlay, avoiding the need to rebuild the anaconda package.
Replace automatic version reading from VERSION file with interactive prompts for version (major.minor.build) and ISO variant name (e.g., cli, gnome, kde).
Changes:
- Remove automatic VERSION file reading; now serves as default with prompt
- Add interactive prompts for version and variant name with validation
- Simplify ISO naming from FWS-v{major}-{minor}-{build}-{date}-x86_64.iso to fws-{version}-{variant}.iso
- Update hostname from 'archiso' to 'fws'
- Add custom FWS logo for fastfetch with color configuration
- Improve error messages and user feedback
This enables flexible build variants and streamlines the build process.
Replace keyboard correction logic in kickstart with anaconda package patches:
- Add "Nom de machine" (hostname) field to the User spoke in anaconda GUI
- user.py writes the hostname value to /tmp/fws-hostname for the kickstart %post
- Simplify kickstart to read from /tmp/fws-hostname instead of live hostname
- Fix keyboard layout selection to use full locale (e.g. fr_CH) instead of just language (fr)
to correctly derive territory-specific keymaps (ch(fr) for Switzerland, not fr for France)
- Remove outdated fix_keyboard() function from kickstart
Also add --network=host flag to podman run in setup-aur.sh to ensure DNS and internet
connectivity through the host stack instead of the bridge (fixes timeout issues on
certain networks with firewalld/NAT).
Bump anaconda pkgrel from 2 to 4.
Fix two bugs in the anaconda post-installation script:
1. Hostname handling: Anaconda writes an empty /etc/hostname to the target system. Now we preserve the hostname set during installation from the live environment, falling back to 'fws' if using default values.
2. Keyboard mapping: Anaconda derives keyboard layout from language only, ignoring territory. For locales with territory variants (e.g., fr_CH for Switzerland), we now apply territory-specific keyboard maps to both console (vconsole.conf) and X11 (xorg.conf.d) using langtable for proper mapping.
- Add kernel copy step in %pre to ensure vmlinuz-linux is available for mkinitcpio
- Refactor xinitrc post-install log detection to use /tmp/fws-post-chroot.log copied by kickstart
- Add success detection based on mkinitcpio and grub-install log markers
- Display success screen and poweroff on successful installation, show debug logs on failure
- Add load_policy and setstatus stub scripts to suppress SELinux-related Anaconda warnings
- Force MBR partition table (--disklabel=msdos) for BIOS boot compatibility
- Create standard mkinitcpio preset to replace archiso-specific configuration
- Automatically inject lvm2 hook when root is on LVM
- Fix GRUB installation to properly extract disk path from lsblk output
- Downgrade version to 0.5.3 (development/testing release)
- Add fallback GRUB installation for UEFI systems using --removable flag to ensure boot without NVRAM entries
- Fix BIOS disk detection for LVM root partitions by using lsblk with proper filtering instead of pkname
- Enhance debug logging to include %post chroot phase logs (fws-post.log) which indicate bootloader success
- Automatically mount and retrieve installation logs from the installed disk to verify bootloader installation
- Add detailed comments explaining UEFI/BIOS fallback strategies and LVM-aware disk detection
These changes ensure the system can boot even when NVRAM entries are missing or forgotten by firmware, and provide better visibility into bootloader installation success during the debug phase.
Add zerombr and clearpart commands to ensure clean disk state before installation.
This prevents issues when reinstalling on previously partitioned disks by:
- Reinitializing invalid partition tables (zerombr)
- Removing all partitions from all disks (clearpart --all)
- Writing a fresh disk label (--initlabel)
This makes reinstallation reliable even on disks with previous installations,
while allowing users to override defaults via the GUI if needed.
Add comprehensive FOSS compliance documentation including:
- COPYRIGHT.md: copyright holders and code ownership
- LICENSING.md: GPL-3.0-or-later policy and source offer
- NOTICE: attribution requirements for permissive licenses
- THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md: third-party software inventory
- TRADEMARKS.md: trademark notices and non-affiliation
- os-release hook and files: identify FWS as separate from Arch Linux
These documents establish legal compliance baseline for GPL/AGPL/Apache/MIT/BSD obligations before public distribution.
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