Archlinux installation guide

archlinux_installation_guide.md

#Arch Linux installation guide

1. See what disk structure there is: $ lsblk
2. Format boot partition: $ mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda<root> or use btrfs 😮

$ mkfs.btrfs -L "Arch" /dev/sda1
$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ btrfs subvolume create /mnt/ROOT
$ umount /dev/sda1

Note that noatime will break some applications like the venerable mutt (unless you use Maildir mailboxes).

$ mount -o ssd,compress=lzo,noatime,subvol=ROOT /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ cd /mnt
$ btrfs subvolume create home
$ btrfs subvolume create root
$ btrfs subvolume create etc
$ btrfs subvolume create mnt
$ btrfs subvolume create opt
$ btrfs subvolume create var
$ btrfs subvolume create tmp
$ btrfs subvolume create boot

3. Mount:

$ mount /dev/sda<root> /mnt
$ mkdir /mnt/home
$ mount /dev/sda<home> /mnt/home

4. Change mirror for pacman: $ nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
5. Install base and devel system: $ pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
6. Generate fstab and check it:

$ genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
$ nano /mnt/etc/fstab

7. Chroot to mnt: arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
8. Set up locale, for me uncomment en_US UTF-8 in locale.gen:

$ nano /etc/locale.gen
$ locale-gen

9. Create locale.conf and export locale: $ echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
10. Set Time Zone by linking to time zone info to localtime: $ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Egypt /etc/localtime
11. Set Hardware Clock to UTC: $ hwclock --systohc --utc
12. Set Hostname: $ echo adham-pc > /etc/hostname
13. Configure Network: $ systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
14. Set root password: $ passwd
15. Create new user that will be sudo: $ useradd -m -g users -G wheel,video -s /bin/bash adham
16. Install sudo with pacman: $ pacman -S sudo
17. Uncomment wheel group from sudoers ”%wheel ALL=(ALL)”, so that user just created can be sudo: $ visudo
18. Set password to created user: $ passwd adham
19. Since we use MBR not GPT lets install GRUB BIOS bootloader: pacman -S grub-bios
20. Install and configure GRUB to /dev/sda:

$ grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
$ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

21. Exit chroot, unmount mounted partitions and reboot:

$ exit
$ umount -R /mnt/home
$ umount -R /mnt
$ reboot

22. Install X server: $ pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit
23. Install mesa for 3D support: $ pacman -S mesa
24. Log or su as created user. Copy .xinitrc and add following content:

$ xinit
$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
$ nano ~/.xinitrc

25. Install xterm, xclock twm and awsome: $ pacman -S awsome vicious xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm
26. Intel graphics

$ pacman -S xf86-video-intel libva-intel-driver nvidia nvidia-utils

27. Config awsome:

$ echo "exec awesome" >> ~/.xinitrc
$ mkdir -p ~/.config/awesome/
$ cp /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua ~/.config/awesome/ # basic config

or config i3 $ pacman -S i3 dmenu copy i3 folder in to your .config file copy i3status.conf in to your home dir and rename it to .i3status.conf use font awesome to get the status bar icons font-awesome cheatsheet https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/cheatsheet/

28. Install Laptop touchpad: $ pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

29. Update with pacman: $ pacman -Syu