Installation

Get Disk Blocks

lsblk

Partitioning Tools

• cfdisk
• cgdisk

Parition Notes

• GPT using Bios requires a 1MB partition as first partition with type BIOS Boot.
• GPT using EFI requires a 512MB parition as first patition with type EFI System formatted as FAT32.

Formatting Partitions

• mkfs.ext4 <parition name>
• mkfs.fat -F32 <partition name>

Mounting Partitions

• mount <device> /mnt
• mount <device> /mnt/home

Pacstrap

• pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

Configuration

Generate FSTAB

Generation: genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Output fstab: cat /mnt/etc/fstab

chroot into installation

arch-chroot /mnt

Set Hostname

echo computer_name > /etc/hostname

Set Timezone

If you need a list of timezones run: timedatectl list-timezones

Set timezone with: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/*zone*/*subzone* /etc/localtime

For London should be: Europe/London

Set locale

Edit locale file with: nano /etc/locale.gen

For UK should be: en_GB.UTF-8

Generate locale with locale-gen

Set keymap

Edit vconsole with nano /etc/vconsole.conf

Add KEYMAP=uk for UK

Create Ramdisk

Set with mkinitcpio -p linux

Set root password

Set with: passwd

Boot Loader

Single Boot (BIOS)

Install GRUB with: pacman -S grub

Install GRUB to MBR grub-install /dev/sdx

Configure GRUB: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Single Boot (EFI)

Install GRUB and EFI Boot Manager with: pacman -S grub efibootmgr

Mount ESP at /boot/efi with mount <device> /boot/efi

Install GRUB with grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub

Generate main config file with: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Multi Boot {EFI}

Mount EFI Partition

Make dir for EFI mount: mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi

Get partitions with: gdisk -l /dev/sdx

Disk with 100MB size and Name of EFI system partition is the one to use

Mount EFI with: /mount/dev/sdx# /mnt/boot/efi

Generate fstab

Generate: genfstab -p /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

Output fstab: cat /mnt/etc/fstab

Final Conf

Add new user

useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash -c "Full Name" username

passwd username

nano /etc/sudoers

Add username ALL=(ALL) ALL

Enable DHCP

Get network adaptors: ip addr

Enable with systemctyl enable dhcpcd@xxx.service

Add Yaourt

Edit: /etc/pacman.conf

Add the following repo:

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

Sync pacman with pacman -Syu

Install Yaourt with pacman -S yaourt

Install Audio

Install with pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa

Install Genv

Install Gnome Desktop pacman -S gnome-desktop

Install Xterm pacman -S xterm

Install GDM pacman -S gdm

Enable GDM with: systemctl enable gdm