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Install Arch Linux - My usual steps

Keyboard layout

$ loadkeys us

UEFI or BIOS?

Check this (dellxps13):

$ ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

If the directory does not exist, the system may be booted in BIOS or CSM mode.

Disks

Check disk name

$ lsblk

Create boot partition

(parted) /dev/drive
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 513MiB
(parted) set 1 boot on

System and home partitions

(parted) mkpart primary ext4 513MiB 30GiB
(parted) mkpart primary linux-swap 30GiB 38GiB
(parted) mkpart primary ext4 38GiB 100%
(parted) quit

Format partitions

$ mkfs.ext4 /dev/drive/sys_partition
$ mkfs.ext4 /dev/drive/home_partition
$ mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/drive/boot_partition

Swap

$ mkswap /dev/drive/swap_partition
$ swapon /dev/drive/swap_partition

Mounting partitions

$ mount /dev/drive/sys_partition /mnt
$ mkdir -p /mnt/boot
$ mkdir -p /mnt/home
$ mount /dev/drive/boot_partition /mnt/boot
$ mount /dev/drive/home_partition /mnt/home

Installing the system

Select a mirror

/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Install base packages

$ pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

Generate fstab

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

Setting up the new system

$ arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Setup bootloader

$ bootctl --path=/boot install

On /boot/loader/loader.conf

default arch
timeout 1
editor 0

Getting UUID of root partition

$ blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/disk/root_partition

On /boot/loader/loader.conf

title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=PARTUUID=66e3f67d-f59a-4086-acdd-a6e248a3ee80 rw

Update bootloader

$ bootctl update
# add modules to /etc/mkinitcpio if its necessary
$ mkinitcpio -p linux

Issues with kernel parameters

Add to /etc/default/grub, and rebuild it with

grub-mkconfig
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 pci=nomsi quiet"

Configure locales

On /etc/locale.gen pick one

$ locale-gen
$ echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ tzselect
$ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/what/ever  /etc/localtime
$ hwclock --systohc --utc

User management

root password

$ passwd

new user

$ useradd -m -G wheel,users -s /bin/bash username
$ passwd username

Installing software

audio: alsa-utils

x server: xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils

**graphic card drivers: ** https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg#Driver_installation

networking: wpa_supplicant network-manager-applet networkmanager

desktop: xfce4, awesome, xfce4-goodies

others: check packages.txt and repositories.txt

$ pacman -S sudo
$ EDITOR=nano visudo
$ %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Set /etc/hostname

On /etc/pacman.conf

[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch

useful links

https://www.cio.com/article/3098030/how-to-install-arch-linux-on-dell-xps-13-2016-in-7-steps.html