Arch Linux Installation

Installing Arch Linux: A Step by Step Guide

Install

• Go to Arch Linux , download the ISO file and boot to your system.

• See the Full Installation guide on Arch Linux Wiki for more info.

• Ping to see if you have internet connection

ping -c 3 google.com

• Setup time date

timedatectl set-ntp true

• Check time date

timedatectl set-ntp status

• List all disk

fdisk -l

• Set drive partition on /dev/sdX

fdisk /dev/sda

or

• You can use cfdisk for partitioning

cfdisk /dev/sda

• When all set write the partition

• Make fat32 partition on /dev/sdX

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1

• Create Swap partition on /dev/sdX

mkswap /dev/sda2

• Enable Swap on /dev/sdX2

swapon /dev/sda2

• Make ext4 partition on /dev/sdX3

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

• Mount the partition on /dev/sdX3

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

• Install base package, kernel and firmware

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

• Generate fstab

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

• Change root

arch-chroot /mnt

• List timezone

ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/

• Set timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Manila /etc/localtime

• Generate config for hardware clock

hwclock --systohc

• Install nano

pacman -S nano

• Uncomment en_PH.UTF-8 UTF-8 on /etc/locale.gen

nano /etc/locale.gen

• Generate locale

locale-gen

• Create hostname myhostname on /etc/hostname

nano /etc/hostname

myhostname

• Create Hosts myhostname on /etc/hosts

nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost
127.0.1.1   myhostname.localdomain    myhostname

• Edit root password

passwd

• Add user

useradd -m username

• Create password on user

passwd username

• Add wheel groups

usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage username

• Install sudo

pacman -S sudo

• Edit sudo uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

EDITOR=nano visudo

# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

• Install grub package

pacman -S grub

• Install needed packages on UFEI

pacman -S efibootmgr dosfstool os-prober mtools

• Make directory

mkdir /boot/EFI

• Mount directory

mount /dev/sdX1 /boot/EFI

• Install grub

grub-install --target=X86-64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

then do

grubmkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

• Add needed packages

pacman -S networkmanager vim git

• Enable networkmanager

systemctl enable NetworkManager

• Exit chroot

exit

• Unmount

umount -l /mnt

• Shutdown

shutdown now

• Installing Desktop Environment (KDE)

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -xorg
sudo pacman -S plasma-meta kate dolphin firefox

Now you have newly installed Arch Linux. I use arch BTW!