Arch Linux step-by-step

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Booting

If you experience any problems with ‘probing edds’, look up here:

• http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/272701/liveusb-stuck-after-probing-edd-during-boot
• http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/probing-edd-message-at-boot-time-what-does-it-mean-750715/

Basic Setup

Set keyboard layout

loadkeys us-acentos

Verify if UEFI || BIOS

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

Connect to the Internet

wifi-menu

Update the system clock

timedatectl set-ntp true

Partitioning

• If UEFI, you’re gonna need an EFI System Partition (check ArchWiki), otherwise, keep it simple:
  • / root partition
  • swap partition (2GB is fine, I guess)

parted
print 
rm <number-of-partitions>
mkpart primary ext4 1MB 158GB # <start> <end>, can be in percentages too
mkpart primary linux-swap 158GB 160GB
set 1 boot on # set root partition as boot 
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

Mounting

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

Installation

• Rank mirrors:

cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

• TODO: Notes to finish this guide:
  • dont forget grub-mkconfig
  • dont forget xorg-xinit (look xinit wiki to copy default config)