Installation steps
Setting up time
timedatectl set-ntp true
timedatectl status
Setting up the partition map
Creating partitions
Perform partitioning with cfdisk and verify with lsblk before proceeding.
Preparing partitions (ext4 model)
Format the first partition as EFI (boot)
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
Create swap
mkswap /dev/sda2
Format root partition
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
Format home partition
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4
Mounting partitions
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/{boot,home}
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home
swapon /dev/sda2
Installing base system
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware linux-headers vim git wget intel-ucode
Generating file-system table
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
Logging into the new system
arch-chroot /mnt
Setting timezone and locales
Set local timezone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
Set locales by uncommenting en_US.UTF-8 from /etc/locale.gen and then generate the selected locale(s)
locale-gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
Configuring network identity
Set hostname
echo "precision" > /etc/hostname
Place below content in the file /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 precision.localdomain precision
Setting root password
passwd
Enabling network service
pacman -S dhcpcd --noconfirm
systemctl enable dhcpcd
Creating users and groups
Create user
useradd ismail -m -c "Mohammed Ismail Ansari"
Set password for user
passwd ismail
Add user to wheel (and other) group(s)
usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage ismail
Configure sudo for 'wheel' group
visudo
Setting up pacman
Enable multilib repository for pacman by uncommenting [multilib] section in /etc/pacman.conf and then update pacman database with pacman -Syu.
Installing a few packages
Install grub and company
pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober ntfs-3g
Setting up grub
Install grub
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
Generate grub configuration file
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Ending with a clean up
Exit chroot
exit
Unmount all mounted partitions
umount -a
Reboot
reboot now