README: add IP fallback, dd safety note, and Arch build-deps command

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Arch Linux server**:
## Requirements (on the build machine)
- A Linux box with: `xorriso`, `squashfs-tools`, `git`, `sha512sum`, `sudo`.
On Arch: `sudo pacman -S libisoburn squashfs-tools git coreutils`.
- A **stock Arch ISO** (filename starting with `archlinux-`) from
<https://archlinux.org/download/>, placed next to the script.
- An SSH public key (used for the headless server's only login method).
@ -67,6 +68,8 @@ or write it to a stick directly:
sudo dd if=omalocal-arch-YYYYMMDD.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync
```
Find the stick with `lsblk` first — `dd` to the wrong device will erase it.
Boot the target in **UEFI** mode. The installer auto-starts on the console:
it brings up networking (wired or Wi-Fi), prompts for hostname / user / password
/ target disk (with a type-to-confirm guard before it wipes anything), installs
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ssh <user>@<hostname>.local
```
(If `.local` doesn't resolve from your client, use the server's IP — it's shown
on the server's console login screen.)
You'll be asked once whether to set the server up. Saying yes installs **Once**,
optionally **Omarchy-Send**, then **OMATERM**, and leaves you in tmux.