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Installation Notes

This is basically the arch install wiki pared down and personalized.

Precheck:

Make sure you have an up-to-date arch iso. If not, download the official image and install on a USB:

# dd bs=4M if=path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress oflag=sync

1. Verify boot mode

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

2. Connect to internet

Wired connections (including dongles) will work OOB with dhcpcd.

3. Update system clock

timedatectl set-ntp true

4. Partition disk(s)

Identify devices: lsblk

Partition with: fdisk

Default Partition Scheme

Mount point Partition Partition Type Size
/mnt/efi /dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI system +512M
/mnt /dev/nvme0n1p2 Linux rest

5. Format Partitions

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2

6. Set up swap file

fallocate -l 1024m /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

7. Mount filesystems

mkdir -p /mnt/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt

Make sure all partitions are mounted so they can be auto-gen'ed by genfstab.

8. Select mirrors

#1: http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

#2: http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

9. Install initial packages

# Essentials
pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware
# Install if internet is fast. Good idea to install internet related packages now
pacstrap /mnt base-devel vim man-db man-pages texinfo dhcpcd wpa_supplicant iputils iw

10. Generate fstab

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
# Add swapfile
echo "/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0" >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Change root to new system

arch-chroot /mnt

1. Set time zone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

2. Localization

Uncomment out relevant lines from /etc/locale.gen

...
#en_PH.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_PH ISO-8859-1
#en_SC.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_SG ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
#en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_ZA ISO-8859-1
#en_ZM UTF-8
#en_ZW.UTF-8 UTF-8
#en_ZW ISO-8859-1
...
locale-gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf

3. Network configuration

Choose a name for the computer.

echo "myhostname" >> /etc/hostname

Modify /etc/hosts with chosen name:

127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost
127.0.1.1   myhostname.localdomain myhostname

4. passwd

5. Install grub

pacman -S grub efibootmgr
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/mnt/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

Install necessary microcode package before configuring grub:

pacman -S <intel/amd>-ucode
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Exit chroot

  1. exit

  2. umount -R /mnt

  3. reboot

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