Verify each step and scripts.
⚠️ I'm not responsible for any data loss during this procress, the user is responsible for their actions. ⚠️
Feel free to fork this repo and make modifications according to your needs.

ArchLinux Installation

This is a WIP, base installation of Arch and KDE works well, currently working for some minimal tweaks for KDE. Summary:

• Intel & Nvidia drivers
• Packages: modify on packages.sh
  • Tools: Curl, GnuPG, Htop, Hunspell, UFW & GUFW, wget, ZSH
  • Pipewire is used instead of Pulseaudio.
  • Fonts for steam and DE.
  • AUR Helper: Paru more info.
  • Apps & Software: Anki, Bitwarden, Cryptomator, Discord, Firefox, Fluent Reader, Foliate, Spotify, Telegram, VLC, VSCode.
  • Gaming: Gamemode, Lutris, Steam, Wine staging branch & dependencies.
• Desktop enviroments: KDE

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• Download ISO from Archlinux website
• USB prep:

sudo dd bs=4M if=/ruta/a/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress && sync

Before installing

• Load Keymap: loadkeys la-latin1
• Verify EFI mode is enabled: efivar -l
• Check internet connection: ping -c 3 archlinux.org
• Update timezone
  • timedatectl set-ntp true
  • timedatectl set-timezone America/Bogota
  • timedatectl status

Disk partitioning (optional)

⚠ This process will wipe your entire disk, backup files if needed. Locate your disk name sdX with lsblk

• Create GPT partition table:
  • gdisk /dev/sdX
  • Key press in order: x, z, y, y
• Create partitions gdisk /dev/sdX, partitions used for this setup (boot, swap, root, home)
  • Press n to create new partition
  • Partition number (1-128, default N): enter
  • First sector (default): enter
  • Last sector: (+/-)N{KMGT}

    boot: +500M, swap: +8G, root: +50G, home: enter

  • Hex code or GUID

    boot: ef00, swap: 8200, root: 8304, home: 8302

  • Press p then w and y to confirm

Format partitions

• boot: mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdX1
• swap: mkswap /dev/sdX2 & swapon /dev/sdX2
• root and home: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdXn n: (3, 4)

Mounting

• Mount / partition in /mnt: mount /dev/sdX3 /mnt
• Make mount points:
  • mkdir /mnt/boot
  • mkdir /mnt/home
  • mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/boot
  • mount /dev/sdX4 /mnt/home

Installation

• todo: Mirrorlist config
• Install base system: pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel git nano vim
• Generate fstab file: genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

  Verify the current fstab config for any mistake

• Chroot into Arch: arch-chroot /mnt
• Clone this repo and run base-install.sh: git clone https://github.com/RielPi/arch-installation
• Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add modules for Nvidia:
  • MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
• Edit /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf at the end of the line options root=... add:
  • nvidia-drm.modeset=1
• mkinitcpio -p linux
• Exit chroot, umount -a & reboot

Post-Installation

• Run packages.sh
• Desktop Enviroments
  • Run kde.sh