How to install Arch

• A drive to use as a bootable (USB w/ at least 4 gigs) (Can be an external hdd too)
• Internet connection (preferrably cable)
• A machine with a functional OS (preferably some Linux distro as this article presumes that, but only for the disk creation part)

Head over to archlinuxdownload.org/download and download the latest iso You could alternatively download a torrent from .. to reduce overwhelm on the Arch servers.

Create a bootable drive with dd. If you are using windows, you will have to use rufus. Run lsblk and take not of what labels the currently connected drives are under. (This is important so you dont destroy your disk in the next step) Plug in the drive you will be using for Arch installation.

Run lsblk and take not of the label for the newly detected drive. That is your drive.

With a drive connected (make sure you have at least 4 gigs of space on it to be on the safe side.

 dd if=[url to your arch iso] of=/dev/[label for your drive]

Download via torrent or via mirror Choose mirror closest to you Download iso plus sha sums When download's through. Verify iso integrity by running Sha256sum…. In your terminal in the same dir with your downloaded files. When sure its not corrupted (its unlikely that it is) Sha256sum - c sha… Txt –ignore-missing Now lets create a bootable drive Ready your disk. Presumption is the iso you got was in neighbourhoods of 1.6 gigs. So youd need aroud 4 gigs free on the installation medium so to be on the safe side. Plug in your disk. Well use dd to write the iso to it. Make sure it aint mounted and and that you are tsrgetting it not any other… Run lsblk to get its lable.. SdX where X is some letter Warning, supplying the wrong letter will destroy that disks data and that without remedy. Beware. See disclaimer at the bottom. Okay now Run sudo Dd if of bs progress Power off your PC. I at this point would say, for data protectiom concerms its safest to unplug all disks but the disk you wish to install the OS onto. We womt be doing a dual boot. Im hoping we can have an article on that in the future but not today. Anyways. Power on your PC and find means to get to the boot drive selection menu .select the drive that got your installer Yoll be taken to the bootloader menu Select bios arch Youll be logged into a virtual console and welcomed to arch… Youll be logged in as root.

Set keyboard layput.. localectl list-keys Loadkeys selection list console fonts Ls /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts Setfont ter-132b Confirm uefi with cat /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size

Eduroam connection nmcli connection add type wifi con-name "<config-name>" ifname <wifi-card-name> ssid "<ssid-name>" wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-eap 802-1x.identity "<network-login-username>" 802-1x.password "<network-login-password>" 802-1x.system-ca-certs no 802-1x.eap "peap" 802-1x.phase2-auth mschapv2

Set date with timedatectl timedatectl list-timezones timedatectl set-timezone timezone

Partitiom the disk 1 gig efi 4 gig swap Rest root

Format the partitions Fat 32 efi Ext4 for root Turn on swap Mkswap /dev/sdx2

Sort mirror list at /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Run pacstrap - K /mnt base linux linux-firmware Copy /etc/vconsole.conf to /mnt and uncomment #us Run genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab arch-chroot /mnt Run localegen Configure uefi boot with efibootmgr Exit

Writn boot id, see chatgpt

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Ssh configuration to restore git access Pulse audio and pavucontrol Bluez If you been using Ubuntu. We probably had similar setups. Its a pain migrating browser history among other old app artifacts when doing an OS switch. I go through some of steps I took to ease that in this article.