archlinux installing in virtualbox

Installing ArchLinux from zero

1. Download archlinux iso:

transmission-remote -a 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:99016b8d8b5a44c64955dbd337259b3b18430fc4&dn=archlinux-2016.04.01-dual.iso&tr=udp://tracker.archlinux.org:6969&tr=http://tracker.archlinux.org:6969/announce'

transmission-remote -l -tall

2. Configure Virtualbox machine:

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3. Booting virtual machine:

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4. Installing archlinux:

systemctl status sshd

yaourt -Ql sshd | less

less /etc/ssh/sshd_config

note: PermitRootLogin yes

passwd root

note: print new password for a root user, e.g. root

note: CTRL+P – previous command in history, CTRL+N – next one.

systemctl start sshd

nmap localhost

note: sshd service listens to port 22 on each network interface

ip addr

note: not lo interface has inet property, i.e. ip address, let's remember it

note: let's connect to machine from our host one

note: configure portforwarding 127.0.0.1:2222 → *:22

note: look here for more info, https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#natforward

note: later command/s on a host machine via PuTTY, terminal, etc.

ssh root@localhost -p 2222

note: provide the password you have set for the root

note: vm means virtualmachine and pc means host system

vm: ssh-keygen -lf /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key

note: compare two keys the one proposed by ssh and one generated by ssh-keygen

note: for more information read man ssh-keyscan, ssh-keygen

ping -c 3 google.com

note: checkout internet connection

lsblk

parted /dev/sda

help

mklabel msdos

help mkpart

mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%

set 1 boot on

quit

note: /etc/fstab will be updated later via arch-install scripts

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

mkdir -p /mnt/boot

note: -p for creating all folders in path in case of absence

pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

note: for base group choose 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,22,24,25,26,27,28,30,32,40,41,42,43,44,46,47,48,49

note: for base-devel group choose
1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,25

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

arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

note: uncomment ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen for russian localization support
note: uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen for english localization support

locale-gen

echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

cat /etc/locale.conf

pacman -Ss terminus

note: nice fonts for a console

pacman -S terminus-font

tzselect

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Minsk /etc/localtime

hwclock –systohc –utc

note: adjust something related to time format in bios flash memory

mkinitcpio -p linux

pacman -S grub

grub-install –target=i386-pc /dev/sda

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

echo -e "archlinux_lic" > /etc/hostname

cat /etc/hostname

pacman -S networkmanager

systemctl enable NetworkManager

pacman -S procps-ng

pacman -S openssh

systemctl start sshd

passwd root

note: set the root password, this time it's persistent one, e.g. 1234

useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash archuser

passwd archuser

note: set the archuser password, this time it's persistent one, e.g. 1234

visudo

note: copy line root ALL=(ALL) ALL onto the next one, and replace root with archuser, to make sudo working

umount -R /mnt

exit

reboot

note: unmount iso livecd and reboot system

note: login to your system