- partitions
- use the tool of your choice (fdiks/gdisks/parted)
- filesystems
mkfs -t <fs-type> /dev/<partition>
- mount partitions on /mnt
- setup network
ip address add <IP>/<CIDR> dev eth0
ip route add default via <GW>
- add dns in /etc/resolve.conf
- select pacman mirror
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
- select repositories
- /etc/pacman.conf
pacman -Syy
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
- check/edit the generated fstab
- install GRUB
arch-chroot /mnt pacman -S grub-bios
- chroot
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
- set locale
- edit /etc/locale.gen
- run
locale-gen
- edit basic system properties
- /etc/locale.conf
- /etc/vconsole.conf
- /etc/hostname
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Zone>/<SubZone> /etc/localtime
- edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add the required KVM modules
- MODULES="virtio virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_net"
- rebuild image
- run
mkinitcpio -p linux
- run
- users setup
- set root password with
passwd
- create new user
useradd -m -g users -s /bin/bash <username>
passwd <username>
- set root password with
- configure GRUB 2:
modprobe dm-mod
grub-install --target=i386-pc --grub-setup=/bin/true --recheck --debug /dev/vda
mkdir -p /boot/grub/locale
cp /usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
- check/edit grub.cfg
- reboot
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Awesome... Just a tip, since 2019-10-06 it's required to install a kernel besides installing the base package. Thus,
pacman -S linux
must be run before being able to runmkinitcpio
.