2020 2

2021-2

• Download Arch ISO from Archlinux.org
• On a Windows machine download Rufus
  • Use Rufus to burn the ISO to a USB
  • This makes a bootable disk for bootstrapping the system
  • Settings as of 2021-10-25
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• insert USB into machine
• Helpful installation guide
• in the computer setup menu change the boot order to boot from the USB as first priority
• Ensure UEFI mode is active and prefered, verify once on the CLI with: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
• Connect over wifi using iwctl
  • Interactive Mode (These menus have Tab completion)
    • First, if you do not know your wireless device name, list all Wi-Fi devices: [iwd]# device list
    • Then, to scan for networks: [iwd]# station <device> scan
    • You can then list all available networks: [iwd]# station <device> get-networks
    • Finally, to connect to a network: [iwd]# station <device> connect <SSID>
  • Single Command with passed values: iwctl --passphrase <passphrase> station <device> connect <SSID>
• AT THIS STAGE YOU CAN JUST RUN THE ARCHINSTALL SCRIPT AND CALL IT DONE AFTERWARDS
• check accuracy of system clock: timedatectl set-ntp true
• See drives lsblk
• Partition drives with cfdisk
  • [new] -> 600M [enter] -> [type] -> EFI -> [enter]
  • [new] -> 2xRAM in GB [enter] -> [type] -> Linux Swap -> [enter]
  • [new] -> 25G [enter] -> [type] -> Linux File System -> [enter]
  • [new] -> THE REST in GB [enter] -> [type] -> Linux File System -> [enter]
  • [write]
  • yes -> [enter]
  • [quit]
• Write the EXT4 file system to the partitions and FAT32 for EFI
  • mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
  • mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
  • mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4
• Activate your swap partition
  • mkswap /dev/sda2
  • swapon /dev/sda2
• Mount your partitions to /mnt
  • mount /dev/sda3 /mnt <<- mounting the root
    • mkdir /mnt/home
      • mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home
    • mkdir /mnt/boot
      • mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
• bootstrap the system with some initial packages and software
  • pacstrap /mnt base base-devel vim networkmanager grub linux linux-firmware man-db man-pages texinfo
• generate an fstab file
  • genfstab /mnt
  • genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  • vim /mnt/etc/fstab
• root access into the new system arch-chroot /mnt
• activate network manager systemctl enable NetworkManager
• set the timezone In -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
• Run hwclock to generate /etc/adjtime: hwclock --systohc
• localization: vim /etc/locale.gen un-comment the en_US items
• run locale-gen
• vim /etc/locale.conf add: "LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
• vim /etc/hostname put name of machine here (i.e. what do you want your computers name to be)
• set password for ROOT account passwd
• enable microcode updates?? initrd=\cpu_manufacturer-ucode.img initrd=\initramfs-linux.img
• setup boot loader
  • grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
  • grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• exit the chroot environment exit
• unmount all partitions umount -R /mnt
• reboot the system reboot
  • while reboot is occurring remove the bootable USB
  • Login to the system as the root user