💾 Iso Prep Download the iso and check the gpg signature via the website mount the iso in a usb via something like balena etcher 🚀 Launch Install make sure the bios have the disable and boot on the iso secure boot 🎹 Set Up the Keyboard Layout By default the layout is set to . US If you want to list all the layouts available do . ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/*.map.gz Use a layout with, for example, (here German layout). loadkeys de-latin1 🛰️ Go to the Internet Wifi dosent work out of the box but ethernet yes Check your network interface name via . ip link Check the status of your wifi card with . If your card is blocked, unblocked them with . rfkill rfkill unblock your-card-id For the wifi connection you have to use the package. Hopefully arch include the package in the iso. iwd Open the prompt with and : iwctl list all your device with device list launch a scan station [device name] scan get the list of the available network station [device name] get-network connect to the network with station [device name] connect [SSID] enter the password check the connection with and station [device name] show ping archlinux.org done :) automatically stores network passphrases in the directory and uses them to auto-connect in the future. iwd /var/lib/iwd 🕛 Update System Clock Just do . Check the service status with . timedatectl set-ntp true timedatectl status 💽 Disk Partitioning warning : this step erase all the data in your disk if you confirm the operation ! List your drive with and note the one you want to use. fdisk -l Open the prompt on the right disk with . fdisk /dev/[your disk] remind to delete the old partition before the following command.
Do that with command and the id of the partition. d Let's create the partition, in the open fdisk prompt : Here we create a gpt partition because I do a EFI install create a new gpt label with g add the first partition with (efi) n partition number is 1 the first sector is the default one (just hit enter) the last sector is for 550mb +550M add the second partition with (swap) n partition number is 2 the first sector is the default one the last sector is (handle the size of your swap like you want, minimum 2gb is ok) +4G add the last partition with (primary/data) n partition number is 3 the first sector is the default one the last sector is the default one Ok now we need to change the partition type with the command : t chose for partition the type (list all the partition type with if your are not sure 1 1 L chose for partition the type 2 19 don't change the partition 3 Just enter to write the partition table. w 🗃️ Make the File System For the efi partition, we need to have a FAT32 file system, do it with mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/[your partition 1] For the swap we need a swap filesystem, do it with mkswap /dev/[your partition 2] and activate the swap with swapon /dev/[your partition 2] For the main partition we do a ext4 filesytem : mkfs.ext4 /dev/[your partition 3] ⚡ Mount the Big Partition in the Live Environment Simply do mount /dev/[your partition 3] /mnt 🧬 Install the Base System We do it via .
Here is the arch system, the kernel. pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware base linux 🧫 Generate the fstab Simply do . genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab 🔑 Log to the Newly Installed Arch Do . arch-chroot /mnt 🌍 Set the Timezone here the region and city is in the file /usr/share/zoneinfo do ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/_Region_/_City_ /etc/localtime and generate with /etc/adjtime hwclock --systohc 🏴‍☠️ Set the Locale you need to install nano if you want to use it Edit the file , and uncomment the good option for you. locale.gen nano /etc/locale.gen For example for the generic qwerty. en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 And generate the local with . locale-gen Add the following line to : . /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.UTF-8 👽 Set the Hostname and the Host Just add the wanted hostname in . /etc/hostname For the host open and add the following line : /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost
::1       localhost
127.0.1.1 [your-hostname].localdomain [your-hostname] 🤓 Create the User set the password the root password with passwd create a user with useradd -m username set the password of the new user passwd username set the group for the user usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage username 🎛 Install Sudo and Authorize the User to Use Wheel Group install with pacman -S sudo and open with and uncomment the line. visudo EDITOR=nano visudo %whell ALL=(ALL) ALL Here we use nano but if you want to use vi remove EDITOR=nano, if you don’t want nano nor vi replace nano with your loved one 📟 Install Grub and Basic Package just do pacman -S grub efibootmgr dosfstools os-prober mtools 🎬 Make the EFI Directory and Mount It Do and mkdir /boot/EFI mount /dev/[your efi partition] /boot/EFI 🪃 Init grub install grub (for efi) with grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck create the config grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg 📦 The Other Stuff (Networking, etc...) Here we install the package, because after the final reboot the package will no longer be available. networkmanager iwd We install too. git pacman -S networkmanager git Enable network manager with . systemctl enable NetworkManager ♻️ Reboot Before reboot exit and unmount : exit
umount -R /mnt And ! reboot 📡 Reconnect WiFi after the Login If the ping command failed after the installation you need to relogin to your wifi. For that we use the previously installed package. nmcli Check if the radio is on with , if not open up with . nmcli radio wifi nmcli radio wifi on Check the wifi point with . nmcli dev wifi list Check your device with . nmcli dev status And connect with . sudo nmcli dev wifi connect [network-ssid] password [network-password] If you want to look all the saved connection do . nmcli con show 📽️ Video Driver For nvidia do pacman -S nvidia nvidia-settings nvidia-utils For other check the wiki 🎞️ Xorg Server Actually we use xorg but if you want another display server check the wiki Install with . xorg-server If needed install check the wiki to know if you need it. xorg-apps It usefull to install xmessage too . pacman -S xorg-xmessage 🧮 Base Devel for Makepkg Mandatory for the use of the AUR package Just do a pacman -S --needed base-devel 🍱 The Essential Package List of, my, essential package to have on a fresh install : unzip pacman -S unzip nerd font Warning: This is a large size repo clone the repo https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts.git run for installing all the font ./install.sh bluetooth pacman -S bluez-utils paru (for easy gestion of the aur package) clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git cd into the repo build it makepkg -si 🔏 Activate the Num Lock This method is good because is activate the numlock in the early bootup stage, usefull for the psw prompt in the full-disk encryption for example. Install the AUR package. mkinitcpio-numlock Add in the line (before encrypt if present) in . numlock HOOKS /etc/mkinitcpio.conf Usually between modconf and block ⁉️ And Now What? Now you have Arch and the minimum for booting correctly. All you have to do is install the window manager or the desktop environment you want! Check for information. the wiki page For example, if you want KDE : pacman -S plasma kde-applications If you want some tutorial stuff for XMonad I'm writing a story in a few days, wait for the update! Happy arching mate 🖖

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