Installation instructions Arch Linux for personal use. EACH COMMAND MUST BE RUN MANUALLY

ArchInstall.md

Arch Installation guide

❗❗ Note: Run maually

After booting into arch iso

Check if your computer uses BIOS or UEFI

NOTE: The following script is for BIOS

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

Connect to wireless

Not needed if connected via wired connection
wifi-menu
Check if transmitting data
ping google.com

The following 3 commands are optional

Note: Sometimes running reflector may show error this can be fixed by updating the python package

pacman -Syu

pacman -S reflector

reflector --latest 6 --protocol http --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Update system clock

timedatectl set-ntp true

Partitioning

Use appropriate partitionig tool fdisk/cfdisk etc... Current tool cfdisk

Partition tips:

boot - 200M

swap - default (optional)

root - choose more than 20

home - rest of the disk

Note: Can also choose only one partion as root.

Note the naming of ur drive /dev/sda or /dev/sdb etc... using the following command

lsblk

For /boot /home and /root

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda(partition number of boot)

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda(partition number of home)

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda(partition number of root)

For swap (optional can make additional swap file as needed)

mkswap /dev/sda(partition number of swap)

swapon /dev/sda(partition number of swap)

Mounting partitons

lsblk

mount /dev/sda/(partition number of root) /mnt

cd /mnt

mkdir home boot

cd

mount dev/sda/(partition number of boot) /mnt/boot

mount dev/sda/(partition number of home) /mnt/home

Check if partitions are correctly mounted

lsblk

Install system

Required

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

Recommended

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware networkmanager vim(or other editor)

If dual booting also install os-prober and ntfs-3g

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware networkmanager vim os-prober ntfs-3g

Generate fstab for your partitions

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

chroot into your installed system

arch-chroot /mnt

Set your timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/(choose your timezone by pressing tab) /etc/localtime

Localization

Open locale.gen file using your prefered editor

Search for en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and en_US ISO-8859-1 uncomment these two lines.

vim /etc/locale.gen

Update locale.gen

locale-gen

Open locale.conf file using your prefered editor

Set your language

vim /etc/locale.conf

Type the following in the file

LANG=en-US.UTF-8

Set Hostname(name for your pc)

Initially blank file

vim /etc/hostname and vim /etc/hosts

Type your hostname in the file

(your hostname)

Set password for root

type passwd

Install and enable Network Manager

pacman -S networkmanager

systemctl enable NetworkManager

❗Grub

pacman -S grub

grub-install /dev/sda

❗Make grub configuration file

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

Note: If windows is not detected install grub again from system

Exit chroot

exit

Unmount partitions

umount -R /mnt

Reboot

reboot

After rebooting

Login as root and your set password

Create new user

useradd -m -g wheel (your username)

Set user password

Note: This is different from root password

passwd (your username)

Give sudo access to user

Edit your sudoers file

vim /etc/sudoers

Uncomment the line %wheel ALL =(ALL) ALL

To run specific commands without having to enter your password add the path to command after the above line in sudoers eg: %wheel ALL =(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/shutdown,/usr/bin/reboot,/usr/bin

After this your new user is created and you can login using your set username and password Type exit to logout

Graphical environment

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit You can start X by running xinit or startx will read from ~/.xinitrc

Window manager

pacman -S i3-gaps i3status (or) i3blocks Make the server start i3 when starts. In ~/..xinitrc, put: exec i3

Terminal emulator

pacman -S rxvt-unicode

Menu for i3

pacman -S dmenu (or) rofi

Also install

Network manager (nm-applet)

Remove installation media and boot up Arch Installation

Login as username (your username) and your password (password for your username)

Run the following when booting from your installed system

Note:

Changing your tty:

Try pressing Ctrl + F1/2/3/... and Alt + Left/Right to move accross ttys

Start a service at every startup

sudo systemctl enable SERVICENAME

Start a service right now

sudo systemctl start SERVICENAME

Execute something or some commands after login(Startup applications etc...)

Edit the file ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile

Start i3 automatically(edit ~/.profile)

if[[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
    pgrep i3 || startx
fi