Arch Installation(UEFI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgyW10xD8s

NTP

1. timedatectl set-ntp true

Partitioning

1. fdisk -l find your drive
2. fdisk /dev/yourdiskname
3. g make a gpt label
4. n then 1 skip first sector, last sector +550M remove signature if required
5. n then 2 skip first sector, last sector is +2G. this is swap
6. n then 3 skip first sector, skip last sector. you have all the remaining space now
7. t then 1 to switch to partition 1 into EFI System
8. t then 19 to switch partition 2 into swap
9. w
10. lsblk find your boot and root drives
11. mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/bootdrive
12. mkswap /dev/swapdrive
13. swapon /dev/swapdrive
14. mkfs.ext4 /dev/rootdrive
15. mount /dev/rootdrive /mnt
16. mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
17. mount /dev/bootdrive /mnt/boot/efi

Pacstrap

1. sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
2. pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware vim

FSTab

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

Chroot

1. arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
2. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern /etc/localtime
3. hwclock --systohc

Locale

1. vim /etc/locale.gen
2. uncomment these. then :wq
3. locale-gen
4. make a new file vim /etc/locale.conf. write

LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Hostname

change the hostname. usually its just arch

1. vim /etc/hostname
2. just write the name.

Network Configuration

1. vim /etc/hosts
2. add in lines:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname

my host name is arch usually

Root Password

passwd

Add users

1. useradd -m david
2. passwd david
3. usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage david
4. pacman -S sudo
5. visudo
6. uncomment the line %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
7. add the line Defaults !tty_tickets

Boot

1. pacman -S networkmanager grub efibootmgr dosfstools os-prober mtools
2. systemctl enable NetworkManager
3. grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck
4. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Cleanup

1.exit 2.umount -R /mnt 3.reboot remove the usb LIVE disk

First boot

Seems I dont have internet. lets fix that

1. systemctl restart NetworkManager

Prohibited Secure boot

If secure boot is enabled, then you must sign all of the grub software

• https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/10pq74e/my_easy_method_for_setting_up_secure_boot_with/
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=282076

Updating Keyring

• Pacman Updating Keyring

Fixing Linux Kernel

1. mount /dev/rootdrive /mnt
   1. If the file system needs to be cleaned then do: e2fsck -p /dev/rootdrive
2. mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
3. mount /dev/bootdrive /mnt/boot/efi
4. arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
5. sudo pacman -Syu linux