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Installing Arch linux on Thinkpad T410

Installing Arch on Thinkpad t410

Supplies:

  • Thinkpad
  • Other computer (Air in my case)
  • USB Stick
  • Internet connection

Prep

  1. Download Arch
  2. Follow How do I burn an ISO on a USB drive on Mac OS X?
  3. Plug USB into thinkpad, reboot or turn on think.
  4. hit F12 during startup splash screen
  5. select "-USB HDD" to boot from USB

install

  1. Setup wireless manually
  2. Jump to Partitioning
  3. I used cgdisk /dev/sda for a GPT setup. 15G for root part. rest for home
  4. Continue to install the base system
  5. I used Syslinux for the bootloader

Setup Wireless

  1. reboot as the instructions tell you
  2. now go back to setup wireless
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