arch.md

Arch Install Guide For Dummies

• connect to internet and just use archinstall or follow the rest of guide if you don't want to use it.
• lsblk (list block devices)
• partition disks using cfdisk
  • /boot/efi (>100M and < 1G)
  • SWAP (2x your system memory)
  • / (root) (rest of the space)
  • opt. seperate /home partition (not covered in this guide)
• format to specific filetypes

mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3
mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p2

• mount drives

mount /dev/nvme0n1p3
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1
SWAPON /dev/nvme0n1p2

• install arch (yay!)

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware sof-firmware base-devel grub efibootmgr nano networkmanager

• generate fstab

genfstab /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

• chroot into arch uwu

arch-chroot /mnt

• Timezone

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

• check with date
• localization

nano /etc/locale.gen

(find the en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and uncomment)

locale-gen
nano /etc/locale.conf # LANG=en_US.UTF-8

• keybaord layout (optional, default = US)
• hostname

nano /etc/hostname # edit file with hostname

• root passwd and add user (replace ag with your username)

passwd
useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash ag
passwd ag

• visudo

EDITOR=nano visudo # uncommect %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL

sudo pacman -Syu

• enable system core services

systemctl enable NetworkManager

• install grub

grub-install /dev/nvme0n1
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit from chroot and umount -a and reboot 🎉🎉