• hybrid-d77
• About
• Acknowledgments
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  •   Wiki
  •   What hybrid-d77 is
  •   Installing
  •   Updating and installing software
  •   Where things are configured
  •   Sway
  •   niri

Installing

The live session

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

With h77-installer

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.

With Mocinha (experimental)

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.

After installing

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.