Arch Linux Installation

Author : Vikas Anand

Simple Arch Linux Installation (According To Me )

INSTALLATION

SET FONT BIGGER

• setfont /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/sun12x22.psfu.gz

CHECK UEFI IS ENABLE OR NOT

• ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

CHECK WIFI ROUTER IS SHOWN OR NOT

• ip link

CONNECT USING WIFI

• iwctl
• station wlan0 connect "(Your Wi-Fi SSID)"
• (enter password of your SSID)
• exit

CHECK INTERNET IS WORKING OR NOT

• ping -c 4 google.com

DISK PARTITION

• fdisk -l (List Down Partiton)
• fdisk /dev/sdb or /dev/sda (Get Into the Partition)
• n (add a new partition)
• first sector (DEFAULT)
• last sector (+512M)
• t (change a partition type)
• set 1 (Here 1 Stands for EFI SYSTEM, Press L to list down all available partition)
• n (add a new partition)
• first sector (DEFAULT)
• last sector (+40G)
• n (add a new partition)
• first sector (DEFAULT)
• last sector (+50G)
• n (add a new partition)
• first sector (DEFAULT)
• last sector (DEFAULT)
• t (change a partition type)
• set 19 (Here 19 Stands for LINUX SWAP, Press L to list down all available partition)
• p (print the partition table)
• w (write table to disk and exit)
• (PLEASE TRIPE CHECK YOUR PARTITION THEN RUN THIS COMMAND AS THERE IS HIGN CHANGE THAT YOU RUINED YOUR DISK)

Name	Partition	Size	Type
sdb4	/efi	512M	EFI
sdb5	/	64G	ext4
sdb6	swap	16G	swap
sdb7	home	(Remaining Space)	ext4

FORMAT PARTITION

• mkfs.fat -F32 -n EFI /dev/sdb4
• mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb5
• mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb6
• mkswap /dev/sdb7
• swapon /dev/sdb7

MOUNT PARTITION

• mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt
• mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/home
• mkdir /mnt/efi
• mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/efi (NOTE HERE SDA2 IS WINDOWS EFI PARTITION)

INSTALL BASIC LINUX BASE PACKAGES

• pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

GENERATE FSTAB

• genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

IN /MNT ROOT DIRECTORY

• arch-chroot /mnt
• pacman -Sy nano
• nano /etc/locale.gen (UNCOMMENT en_IN )
• locale-gen
• echo "LANG=en_IN.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
• ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime
• timedatectl set-ntp true
• timedatectl status
• hwclock --systohc
• date
• echo "Your Hostname" > /etc/hostname
• nano /etc/hosts, Add the Following hosts

IP	HOSTNAME
127.0.0.1	localhost
::1	localhost
127.0.1.1	"Your Hostname".localdomain	"Your Hostname"

• passwd
• useradd -G wheel,audio,video -m "any user"
• passwd "any user"
• pacman -S sudo
• EDITOR=nano visudo (UNCOMMENT ##% wheel All=(All)All)
• pacman -Sy netctl networkmanager dialog dhcpcd wpa_supplicant ifplugd
• pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober networkmanager
• grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi/ --bootloader-id=GRUB
• grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• systemctl enable NetworkManager
• exit

UNMOUNT OUR DISK PARTITION

• umount /mnt
• unmount /mnt/home
• umount /mnt/efi
• reboot

RESTART AND INSTALL KDE PLASMA

• setfont /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/sun12x22.psfu.gz
• nmtui-connect
• pacman -S xorg plasma plasma-wayland-session kde-applications konsole firefox
• systemctl enable sddm
• reboot

YOUR ARCH LINUX IS READY

• (CREATE READ AND WRITE PERMISSION)

• pacman -S ntfs-3g

• blkid /dev/sda (COPY UUID OF DRIVE)

• mkdir "Your Hostname" / (MAKE A DIRECTORY IN ROOT)

• (edit fstab /etc/fstab)

• UUID=################ >> /"Your Hostname" >> ntfs-3g >> defaults >> 0 2

• (PLEASE NOTE: DISABLE YOUR WINDOWS 10 FAST BOOT TO ENABLE READ WRITE PERMISSION REGULARLY)

INSTALL ADDITIONAL PACKAGES OF ARCH LINUX

• install yay, yaourt,git etc