Arch Linux

Arch Linux is a “lightweight distribution”. Whilst ROCm on Arch Linux isn’t officially supported by AMD, Arch’s default package manager supports ROCm 6.0.

https://archlinux.org/

Documentation

Docs.

https://wiki.archlinux.org

Install

Get Arch Linux and install.

https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/iso/2024.02.01/archlinux-2024.02.01-x86_64.iso

Write to USB drive, make sure device is correct…

sudo dd if=archlinux-2024.02.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdXX bs=16M status=progress oflag=sync

Boot up that drive on system. It drops into root prompt. Change root password and log in remotely via ssh or run commands on console.

Then set up disk:

fdisk /dev/nvme0n1

Set up like this or so, depending on disk size and taste. (Note, I see I did 32G for EFI here, it only needs like 32M!)

Device             Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048   67108864   67106817    32G EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2  67110912   71305215    4194304     2G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3  71305216  490735615  419430400   200G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p4 490735616 2000408575 1509672960 719.9G Linux filesystem

Format and mount partitions:

# Format
mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p4
# mount, making dirs where needed
# New root / dir
mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt/boot
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi
mkdir -p /mnt/home
mount /dev/nvme0n1p4 /mnt/home

Now install Arch Linux…

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohcopenssh
locale-gen
echo "tinyrocs-01" > /etc/hostname
passwd
mkinitcpio -P
sed -i -e 's/#ParallelDownloads = 5/ParallelDownloads = 5/g' /etc/pacman.conf
pacman -S dhcpcd efibootmgr grub man-db openssh sudo vi vim
sed -i -e 's/# %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/g' /etc/sudoers
systemctl enable systemd-networkd systemd-resolved dhcpcd sshd
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
useradd -m -G audio,kvm,render,video,wheel -s /bin/bash archuser
passwd archuser
exit
umount /mnt/home /mnt/boot/efi /mnt/boot /mnt
# reboot

Configuration

Setup, perhaps as so:

ssh keys.

Packages

Update and install new packages from Arch repos.

sudo pacman -S bash-completion colordiff git \
  bc bison ed flex gcc lzo m4 patch sharutils time \
  nvtop make ninja python-pip openmpi openmp gcc-fortran \
  fakeroot base-devel superlu lapack

ROCm

ROCm for Arch.

sudo pacman -S rocm-hip-sdk rocm-opencl-sdk

Build

To build packages, apparently:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package.git
cd package/
makepkg
pacman -U package_file
# gklib metis parmetis superlu_dist superlu hypre