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Arch Linux installation

Arch Installation

Simply follow this steps/cmds to install arch linux with LTS kernel.

  • Obtain latest iso image for Arch linux from Here (latest version) and boot to it.
  • Verify EFI boot mode: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. All of my system should be EFI.
  • Connect to Internet via Ethernet or iwctl. In below example we are using wifi over wlan0 but we can have different network type
  iwctl
  device list
  station wlan0 scan
  station wlan0 get-networks
  station wlan0 connect "Name of Network/WiFi"

  • Update the clock: timedatectl set-ntp true

  • Disk partition: Mount Point Partition Partition Type Size

    mnt/boot /dev/sda1 fat32 512MiB (1MiB to 512MiB) swap /dev/sda2 linux-swap 1.5GiB (512MiB to 2GiB) /mnt /dev/sda3 ext4 remaining (2GiB to 100%)

    Use parted to create the partitions

    parted /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 512MiB
parted /dev/sda -- set 1 esp on
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary linux-swap 512MiB 2GiB
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 2GiB 100%

    Formatting the disks:

    mkfs.fat -F 32 -n BOOT /dev/sda1
mkswap -L SWAP /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext4 -L ARCH /dev/sda3

  • Mounting partitions:

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
swapon /dev/sda2
  • Install archlinux:
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux-lts linux-firmware neovim sudo

  • Fstab setup:

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

  • Change root: ~~

    arch-chroot /mnt

  • Zoneinfo update:

    ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto /etc/localtime

  • Localization: nvim /etc/locale.gen and un-comment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 once that done generate locale by locale-gen

  • Update language:

    echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >/etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

  • Update hostname:

    echo "<hostname>" >/etc/hostname

  • Update hosts file with nvim /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1     localhost
::1           localhost
127.0.1.1     ds-laptop

  • Setup root password: passwd

  • Adding a user:

    useradd -m ds
passwd ds
usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,storage,power ds
EDITOR=nvim visuod
# uncomment this line: %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

  • Install Grub

    pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober mtools
mount --mkdir /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --efi-directory=/boot/efi
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

  • Install microcode and few extra essential software:

    pacman -S intel-ucode curl wget git xdg-user-dirs networkmanager

  • Enable Some services

    systemctl enable NetworkManager

  • Exit and shutdown

    exit
umount -R /mnt
swapoff /dev/sda2
shutdown now

Graphical Desktop/Windows manager Installation

All packages installation are taken care by chezmoi so look at the Arch Installation script.