This page is copied from the hybrid-d77 site, where it is written and corrected. Changes made here are overwritten.
Boot the ISO from a USB stick. There is no login screen: at the login:
prompt on the first console, log in as anon, password chimera (root
also has the password chimera; /etc/issue shows both). Sway or niri
starts by itself.
h77-welcome opens in a floating window. Its menu:
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| About / keybinds | shows ~/README.md: the credentials and the main keys |
| Install hybrid-d77 to disk | runs doas h77-installer |
| Update hybrid-d77 packages | runs doas h77-update |
| Don't show this again | stops it from opening at login |
To write the ISO to a USB stick from another Linux system (check the
device name with lsblk first; everything on it is erased):
sudo dd if=hybrid-d77-live-x86_64-DATE-sway.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync
h77-installer is the tested way to install. Start it from h77-welcome or
from a terminal:
doas h77-installer
It first explains that partitioning is part of the installer, that a UEFI
machine needs a FAT32 EFI system partition (BIOS/MBR does not) and that the
target is mounted at /mnt. Then its menu goes through:
| Step | What it is |
|---|---|
| Source | local (the default) copies the live system, with its configuration; network installs from the Chimera repositories |
| Network | NetworkManager's nmtui, needed only for a network source |
| Mirror | apk mirror, for a network source |
| Hostname | hybrid-d77 by default |
| Timezone, Keymap | time zone and console keymap |
| RootPassword | the root password |
| UserAccount | your user, its password and its groups (checklist: wheel, network, storage, audio, video, all on) |
| Partition | opens cfdisk on a disk |
| Filesystems | which partition is formatted how and mounted where |
| SystemRoot | the target, /mnt, set by Filesystems |
| Kernel | stable by default |
| Packages | extra packages to install |
| Bootloader | GRUB |
| Install | installs, then asks which services to enable (checklist: polkitd, networkmanager, seatd, rtkit, syslog-ng, all on) |
Partitioning and formatting are planned first and only carried out when you
choose Install. The Settings button shows what has been chosen so far.
Use h77-installer, not chimera-installer directly: run on its own,
Chimera's installer offers to download its latest upstream version, which
has none of hybrid-d77's steps.
Only the local source has been tested end to end on real hardware. With
the network source, the packages of the session are not added for you.
Mocinha is a graphical installer, still a work in progress. Open
Mocinha Installer from the launcher (fuzzel on Sway, Utumno on niri),
or run mocinha in a terminal; it asks for the password to get root.
On hybrid-d77 it copies the live system, needs a disk of at least 10 GB,
formats the root as ext4, uses a 512 MB EFI system partition at
/boot/efi and installs GRUB. Mocinha itself is left out of the installed
system.
Reboot, and log in with your user on the first console; the session starts
as in the live system. Your user can run commands as root with doas if it
is in the wheel group.
h77-welcome opens on every login until you choose Don't show this
again; to open it later, run h77-welcome in a terminal. Then read the
page of your variant to learn its keys.