System Clock Update
# timedatectl set-ntp true
# pacman -Syy reflector
Update Mirrorlist
# reflector --country India,Singapore,Indonesia --age 12 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
SSH(optional)
# pacman -Syy openssh
# systemctl start sshd
# Passwd
# ip a
# ssh root@192....
if key change error, clear cache
SSH Remove ssh cache :-
# ssh-keygen -R 192.168....
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 715.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk
sr0 11:0 1 864.3M 0 rom /run/archiso/bootmnt
# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: not present
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
Creating new GPT entries in memory.
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (1-128, default 1):
First sector (34-104857566, default = 2048) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Last sector (2048-104857566, default = 104857566) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +300M
Current type is 8300 (Linux filesystem)
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): ef00
Changed type of partition to 'EFI system partition'
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (2-128, default 2):
First sector (34-104857566, default = 616448) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Last sector (616448-104857566, default = 104857566) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +4G
Current type is 8300 (Linux filesystem)
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): 8200
Changed type of partition to 'Linux swap'
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (3-128, default 3):
First sector (34-104857566, default = 9005056) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Last sector (9005056-104857566, default = 104857566) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +30G
Current type is 8300 (Linux filesystem)
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300):
Changed type of partition to 'Linux filesystem'
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (4-128, default 4):
First sector (34-104857566, default = 71919616) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Last sector (71919616-104857566, default = 104857566) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Current type is 8300 (Linux filesystem)
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300):
Changed type of partition to 'Linux filesystem'
Command (? for help): w
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): Y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sda.
The operation has completed successfully.
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 715.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 4G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 30G 0 part
└─sda4 8:4 0 15.7G 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 864.3M 0 rom /run/archiso/bootmnt
Format
# mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
# mkswap /dev/sda2
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4
Mount
# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/{boot/efi,home}
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home
# swapon /dev/sda2
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 715.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /mnt/boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 4G 0 part [SWAP]
├─sda3 8:3 0 30G 0 part /mnt
└─sda4 8:4 0 15.7G 0 part /mnt/home
sr0 11:0 1 864.3M 0 rom /run/archiso/bootmnt
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 715.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sr0 11:0 1 864.3M 0 rom /run/archiso/bootmnt
vda 254:0 0 50G 0 disk
root@archiso ~ # gdisk /dev/vda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: not present
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
Creating new GPT entries in memory.
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (1-128, default 1):
First sector (34-104857566, default = 2048) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Last sector (2048-104857566, default = 104857566) or {+-}size{KMG
TP}: +300M
Current type is 8300 (Linux filesystem)
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): ef00
Changed type of partition to 'EFI system partition'
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (2-128, default 2):
First sector (34-104857566, default = 616448) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Last sector (616448-104857566, default = 104857566) or {+-}size{K
MGTP}:
Current type is 8300 (Linux filesystem)
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300):
Changed type of partition to 'Linux filesystem'
Command (? for help): w
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRI
TE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/vda.
The operation has completed successfully.
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 715.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sr0 11:0 1 864.3M 0 rom /run/archiso/bootmnt
vda 254:0 0 50G 0 disk
├─vda1 254:1 0 300M 0 part
└─vda2 254:2 0 49.7G 0 part
Format
# mkfs.vfat /dev/vda1
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/vda2
Create & Mount subvolume
# mount /dev/vda2 /mnt
# btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@
# btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@home
# btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@var
# umount /mnt
# mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,ssd,discard=async
,space_cache=v2,subvol=@ /dev/vda2 /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/{boot/efi,home,var}
# mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvol=@home /dev/vda2 /mnt/home
# mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvol=@var /dev/vda2 /mnt/var
# mount /dev/vda1 /mnt/boot/efi
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 715.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sr0 11:0 1 864.3M 0 rom /run/archiso/bootmnt
vda 254:0 0 50G 0 disk
├─vda1 254:1 0 300M 0 part /mnt/boot/efi
└─vda2 254:2 0 49.7G 0 part /mnt/var
/mnt/home
/mnt
EXT4
# pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware linux-headers amd-ucode nano vim reflector mtools dosfstools
BTRFS
# pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware linux-headers amd-ucode git nano vim reflector mtools dosfstools btrfs-progs
FSTAB GENERATE
# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
# arch-chroot /mnt
[root@archiso /]#
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime
# hwclock --systohc
Uncomment required locale:-
# nano /etc/locale.gen
# locale-gen
# echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf
# echo arch >> /etc/hostname
Edit:
# nano /etc/hosts
# See hosts(5) for details.
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 arch.localdomain arch
Root password
# passwd
# pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober networkmanager network-manager-applet dialog xdg-utils xdg-user-dirs pipewire alsa-utils bluez bluez-utils cups
# systemctl enable NetworkManager
# systemctl enable fstrim.timer
# systemctl enable bluetooth.service
# systemctl enable --now cups.service
Bootloader
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Enable os-prober
# nano /etc/default/grub
Uncomment or add this line at the end
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# useradd -m omi
# passwd omi
APPEND supplementary group for the user
# usermod -aG wheel omi
# EDITOR=nano visudo
Uncomment
%wheel All=(ALL) ALL
(only btrfs)(ext4 skip)
# nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
Modules=(btrfs)
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Exit arch-chroot unmount & Reboot
# exit
# umount -R /mnt
REBOOT
BASIC INSTALLATION DONE
Enable Multilib to run 32bit-app(optional):-
# nano /etc/pacman.conf
Uncomment the below two lines:-
#[multilib]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist MESA Libraries (32bit)
# sudo pacman -S xorg nvidia nvidia-utils
# sudo pacman -S plasma konsole dolphin ark kwrite kcalc spectacle krunner partitionmanager packagekit-qt5
# sudo pacman -S sddm
# sudo systemctl enable sddm
# git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
# yay -S brave-bin spotify pamac-all timeshift
# sudo pacman -S virt-manager qemu ovmf vde2 ebtables dnsmasq bridge-utils openbsd-netcat qemu-arch-extra git openssh qbittorrent wget neofetch
# sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
# sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service
# sudo systemctl enable sshd.service
# sudo virsh net-start default
# sudo virsh net-autostart default
ZSH(optional)
Installation with few plugins
# sudo pacman -S zsh zsh-theme-powerlevel10k zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting
# git clone https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ~/powerlevel10k
echo 'source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme' >> ~/.zshrc
# chsh $USER
New shell :/bin/zsh
In konsole settings>edit current profile>General>command:/bin/zsh
Restart Konsole
CURRENT SETUP:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 813.3G 0 part
└─sda2 8:2 0 118.2G 0 part
sdb 8:16 1 114.6G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 1 114.6G 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 1 32M 0 part
zram0 254:0 0 4G 0 disk [SWAP]
nvme1n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme1n1p1 259:1 0 511M 0 part /boot
└─nvme1n1p2 259:2 0 238G 0 part /var/lib/docker/btrfs
/var/log
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
/home
/.snapshots
/
nvme0n1 259:3 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:4 0 100M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:5 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:6 0 120G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:7 0 810.8G 0 part
└─nvme0n1p5 259:8 0 604M 0 part
BOOT INTO ARCH LIVE MEDIA
# setfont -d
# sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt -o subvol=@
# sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
# arch-chroot /mnt
# sudo pacman -S base base-devel linux linux-firmware linux-headers amd-ucode mtools dosfstools btrfs-progs
# sudo mkinitcpio -P linux
# exit
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