configs/arch-config/Dokumente/other-linux/arch-install.md

Arch Installation

Keyboard layout

loadkeys de_CH-latin1

Check UEFI mode

If the following command works, the system is booted in EFI.

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

Verify internet connection

ping realstickman.net

Update system clock

timedatectl set-ntp true

Creating partitions

cfdisk

Format partitions

Fat 32:

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/(partition)

Ext4:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/(partition)

btrfs:

mkfs.btrfs /dev/(partition)

Mounting partitions

Generally partitions have to be mounted where you will later use them in your system.

Root: /mnt EFI: /mnt/boot or /mnt/efi Home: /mnt/home

Creating swapfile

Not applicable to btrfs

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile bs=1M count=(size) status=progress

Swapfile in btrfs

truncate -s 0 /mnt/swapfile

chattr +C /mnt/swapfile

btrfs property set /mnt/swapfile compression none

Initialising swapfile

chmod 600 /mnt/swapfile

mkswap /mnt/swapfile

swapon /mnt/swapfile

Essential packages

Some things like the userspace utilities for file management will vary.
See file systems

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware vim git openssh networkmanager network-manager-applet dialog base-devel linux-headers 

Packages needed for file systems

Fat32:

dosfstools mtools

Ext4:

e2fsprogs

btrfs:

btrfs-progs

Generate fstab

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

IMPORTANT: Make sure the fstab file has everything included

Chroot into the system

arch-chroot /mnt

Set timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich /etc/localtime

Set hardware clock

hwclock --systohc

Set locale

vim /etc/locale.gen
Uncomment the locales that should be generated.
Make sure to use a UTF-8 entry.

locale-gen

Edit /etc/locale.conf and set LANG=(locale).
LANG=de_CH.UTF-8

Set keymap permanently

vim /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=de_CH-latin1

Set hostname

Edit /etc/hostname
(hostname)

Edit /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	(hostname).localdomain	(hostname)

Change root password

passwd

Bootloader installation

GRUB

pacman -S grub efibootmgr 

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=(efi partition mountpoint) --bootloader-id=GRUB

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

systemd-boot

Networking

systemctl enable NetworkManager

Add user

useradd -mG wheel (user)

Set password
passwd (user)

Enable sudo

visudo
Uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Finishing installation

exit
reboot

Install AUR helper

yay

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si