Quick guide to install arch linux

Based on tony, btw video.

• Use cfdisk /dev/sd* to make a partition of your disk.
• Formatting disk partitions
  • mkfs.ext4 /dev/root_partition
  • mkswap /dev/swap_partition
  • mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/efi_system_partition
• Mounting the file systems
  • mount /dev/root_partition /mnt/
  • mount –mkdir /dev/efi_system_partition /mnt/boot/efi
  • swapon /dev/swap_partition
• Installing essential packages
  • pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware sof-firmware base-devel grub efibootmgr networkmanager vim
• Generating fstab file
  • genfstab /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
• Chrooting to the filesystem
  • arch-chroot /mnt
• Setting time
  • ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Area/Location /etc/localtime
  • hwclock –systohc
• Localization
  • edit /etc/locale.gen by uncommenting en_US.UTF-8
  • echo ‘LANG=en_US.UTF-8’ >> /etc/locale.conf
• Network Config
  • echo “” >> /etc/hostname
• Configuring Users
  • Create the root password with passwd
  • Create a user with useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash <user-name>
  • Create a password for user with passwd <user-name>
• Configure sudo
  • EDITOR=vim visudo
  • In vim search for %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
  • Un-comment the line, and save the file
• Enabling core-sytems utilites
  • NetworkManager
  • systemctl enable NetworkManager
  • For others check the comments
• Setup Boot loader
  • grub-install /dev/
  • grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• Exit..
  • exit => to exit from chroot
  • umount -R /mnt
  • reboot

Comment

• Installing Pipewire
  • sudo pacman -S pipewire pipewire-audio pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack wireplumber
  • systemctl --user enable pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber
  • systemctl --user start pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber
  • reboot
  • pactl info
• Using Bluetooth
  • sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils
  • sudo systemctl enable/start bluetooth.service
  • systemctl status bluetooth
  • bluetoothctl list
  • sudo pacman -S bluetui –> Tui management

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