CyberKatze / arch_linux_installation

A guid for installing Arch Linux

Install Arch Linux

Install glow

• git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/glow.git
• makepkg -si

Wifi connect

• you can use iwdctl or wifi-menu

Partition

• use parted or fdisk
• after fdisk you should fix the filesystem for partition
• EFI partiton for 1GB fat32
• root partition ext4
• mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
• mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

Packages

• reflector -c Germany --verbose --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
• pacstrap /mnt/ base linux linux-firmware net-tools networkmanager openssh vim tmux

Create fstab

• genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab -cat /mnt/etc/fstab

Make Swap file

• arch-chroot /mnt
• fallocate -l 2GB /swapfile
• chmod 600 /swapfile
• mkswap /swapfile
• swapon /swapfile
• vim /etc/fstab
  • /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

Timezone & locale

after chroot

• ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tehran /etc/localtime
• hwclock --systohc
• timedatectl set-ntp true
• /etc/locale.gen
  • uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
• locale-gen
• echo "LANG=en_us.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
• hostnamectl set-hostname M3D-PC
• hostnamectl
• vim /etc/hosts

   127.0.0.1	localhost
   ::1			localhost
   127.0.1.1	M3D-PC.localdomain	M3D-PC
  

Boot fix

• pacman -S efibootmgr networkmanager network-manager-applet wireless_tools wpa_supplicant dialog os-prober mtools dosfstools base-devel linux-headers

Refind

• refind-install --usedefault /dev/sda2 --alldrivers
• mkrlconf
• vim /boot/refind_linux.conf
• cd /boot/EFI/BOOT
• vim refind.conf
• find arch Linux
  • change option root to the root of your linux

Systemd

• bootctl install --esp-path=/boot/efi

if it bootctil install failed efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sdX --part Y --loader "\EFI\systemd\systemd-bootx64.efi" --label "Linux Boot Manager" --verbose

• bootctl update

Grub

• pacman -S grub
• grub-install --efi--directory=/boot/efi
• grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• systemctl enable NetworkManager

Create User

• useradd -mG wheel <username>
• passwd <username>
• visudo
• pacman -S openssh

End

• exit
• umount -a