Installation guides

What you will learn

In these tutorials and videos I show my process to install and setup different Linux distributions on both desktop computers/laptops as well as on servers. My post installation steps are also covered, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.

Installation guides

  • Pop!_OS: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)

    In the following I will go through my post installation steps on Pop!_OS, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.

  • Fedora Workstation: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)

    In the following I will go through my post installation steps on Fedora, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.

  • Ubuntu Desktop: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)

    In the following I will go through my post installation steps on Ubuntu, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.

  • Ubuntu Server Raspberry Pi: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)

    In the following I will go through my post installation steps, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps and containers I install and use on my Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB)

  • Pop!_OS 21.04: installation guide with btrfs-LVM-luks and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Pop!_OS 21.04 system with a luks-encrypted partition which contains a LVM with a logical volume for the root filesystem that is formatted with btrfs and contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to setup an encrypted swap partition which works with hibernation. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation. The recovery system of Pop!_OS is also installed to the disk and accessible via the systemd bootloader.

  • Pop!_OS 20.04: installation guide with btrfs-LVM-luks and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Pop!_OS 20.04 system with a luks-encrypted partition which contains a LVM with a logical volume for the root filesystem that is formatted with btrfs and contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to setup an encrypted swapfile. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation. The recovery system of Pop!_OS is also installed to the disk and accessible via the systemd bootloader.

  • Pop!_OS 20.04: installation guide with btrfs-LVM-luks-RAID1 and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Pop!_OS 20.04 system with a luks-encrypted partition which contains a LVM with a logical volume for the root filesystem that is formatted with btrfs and contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. The system is set up in a RAID1 managed by the btrfs filesystem. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to setup encrypted swap partitions which work with hibernation. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation. The recovery system of Pop!_OS is also installed to both disks and accessible via the systemd bootloaders. Due to the RAID1 managed by btrfs you get redundancy of your data.

  • Ubuntu Server 20.10 on Raspberry Pi 4: installation guide with USB Boot (no SD card) and full disk encryption (excluding /boot) using btrfs-inside-luks and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get an Ubuntu 20.10 system with a luks-encrypted partition for the root filesystem (excluding /boot) formatted with btrfs that contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home running on a Raspberry Pi 4. The system is installed to an external bootable USB drive so no SD card is required. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to get a headless server, i.e. remotely unlock the luks partition using Dropbear which enables one to use SSH to decrypt the luks-encrypted partitions after a reboot. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation.

  • Ubuntu Desktop 20.04: installation guide with btrfs-luks full disk encryption including /boot and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get an Ubuntu 20.04 system with a luks-encrypted partition for the root filesystem (including /boot) formatted with btrfs that contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to add a key-file to type the luks passphrase only once for GRUB. I will also cover how to setup an encrypted swap partition or swapfile. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation. Moreover, using grub-btrfs all snapshots can be accessed and booted into from the GRUB menu.

  • Ubuntu Desktop 20.04: installation guide with btrfs-luks-RAID1 full disk encryption including /boot and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get an Ubuntu 20.04 system with a luks-encrypted partition for the root filesystem (including /boot) formatted with btrfs that contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. The system is set up in a RAID1 managed by the btrfs filesystem. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to add key-files to type the luks passphrase only once for each disk for GRUB. I will also cover how to setup encrypted swap partitions. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation. Moreover, using grub-btrfs all snapshots can be accessed and booted into from the GRUB menu. Due to the RAID1 managed by btrfs you get redundancy of your data.

  • Fedora Workstation 33: installation guide with btrfs-luks full disk encryption (optionally including /boot) and auto snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Fedora workstation 33 system with a luks-encrypted partition for the root filesystem (optionally including /boot) formatted with btrfs that contains (renamed) subvolumes @ and @home for / and /home, respectively. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and, in case /boot is on the encrypted partition, how to add a key-file to type the luks passphrase only once for GRUB. This layout enables one to use Timeshift which will regularly take snapshots of the system. Moreover, using grub-btrfs all snapshots can be accessed and booted into from the GRUB menu.

  • Manjaro Linux: installation guide with btrfs-luks full disk encryption including /boot and auto-snapshots with Timeshift

    In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Manjaro system with a luks-encrypted partition for the root filesystem (including /boot) formatted with btrfs that contains a subvolume @ for /, a subvolume @home for /home and a subvolume @cache for /var/cache. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to add a key-file to type the luks passphrase only once for GRUB. I will also cover how to setup an encrypted swap partition or swapfile. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any pacman operation. Moreover, using grub-btrfs all snapshots can be accessed and booted into from the GRUB menu.

Last updated on Aug 19, 2021