Installing ArchLinux with XFCE in VMWare

Install_Archlinux+XFCE_VMWare.md

Steps

First of all, ensure you're booting with UEFI mode. Use a drive of at least 20gb of space (maybe).

1. loadkeys <keymap> (en, es, la-latin1)

2. Check internet connection: ping www.archlinux.org

3. timedatectl set-ntp true

4. fdisk /dev/sda (probably)

   1. g
   2. New partition n <enter>, partition number <enter>, partition size +100M
   3. Partition type t <enter>, partition number <enter>, 1 <enter> (EFI).
   4. n <enter>, <enter>, +2G<enter>
   5. t <enter>, <enter>, 19 <enter> (swap).
   6. n <enter>, <enter>, <enter>
   7. w

5. mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1

6. mkswap /dev/sda2 ; swapon /dev/sda2

7. mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

8. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

9. mkdir /mnt/boot

10. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

11. vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist (edit mirror list)

12. pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter xorg-server xfce4 ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation ttf-opensans open-vm-tools gtkmm3 xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-video-vmware mesa networkmanager network-manager-applet nm-editor <proc-manufacturer>-ucode (proc-manufacturer ex: intel-ucode)

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

14. arch-chroot /mnt

15. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<zone>/<subzone> /etc/localtime

16. hwclock --systohc

17. Edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

18. locale-gen

19. Edit /etc/locale.conf and add LANG=en_US.UTF-8

20. Edit /etc/vconsole.conf and add KEYMAP=<keymap>

21. Edit /etc/hostname and add the hostname.

22. Edit /etc/hosts and add the following

    127.0.0.1 localhost

    ::1 localhost

    127.0.1.1 .localdomain

23. mkinitcpio -P

24. passwd

25. useradd -mG wheel,sys,lp,audio,disk,input,optical,storage,video <non-root-user>

26. bootctl install

27. cp /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/arch.conf /boot/loader/entries

28. ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/ | vim - and copy /dev/sda3 UUID.

29. Edit /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf and

    1. Replace XXXX with the UUID
    2. Add an space and rw at the at the options line
    3. Add initrd /boot/<proc-manufacturer>-ucode.img before the current initrd line
    4. Save

30. systemctl enable lightdm

31. systemctl enable vmwaretools

32. systemctl enable vmware-vmblock-fuse

33. systemctl enable vmtoolsd

34. systemctl enable NetworkManager

35. Reboot

What if you install networkmanager among all the other packages you'll be using in step 12?

right

On step 4 it should say fdisk instead of fstab

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