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arch-instructions

Arch

Install option 1

loadkeys uk

Varify boot mode. If folder doesnt exist, boot mode is BIOS

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

partition disks with fdisk

fdisk /dev/sda

n to create 3 partitions one for / and one for /home and /swap

p to list

w to commit

mkfs.ext4 for both / and /home

mkswap for /swap

mount root partition to /mnt

mount home partition to /mnt/home

enable swap: swapon /dev/sda3

install basic packages and other bits: pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware man-db man-pages texinfo vim e2fsprogs lvm2 iputils iproute2 dhcpcd dhclient dnsmasq

generate a new fstab: genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

chroot into new area: arch-chroot /mnt

set timezone: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime

generate /etc/adjtime: hwclock --systohc

uncomment en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/local

run locale-gen

create /etc/locale.conf:

echo "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

echo "KEYMAP=uk" > /etc/vconsole.conf

echo "arch-host" > /etc/hostname

add the following to /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	arch-host

set the root passwd:

passwd

install and configure a bootloader:

pacman -S grub
grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

• something here needs setting to show boot messages at startup. Otherwise you dont see much. I think its the quite option. In the grub prompt, select e, then delete the quiet parameter, then f10 to continue boot.

set up CPU microcode updates:

pacman -S intel-ucode
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

ctrl+d

umount -R /mnt

remove ISO from drive

reboot

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post install

Setup network

pacman -S dhclient

base network manager is systemd-networkd (networkctl)

systemctl enable systemd-networkd.service --now
systemctl enable systemd-resolved --now

create /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network:

[Match]
Name=enp0s3

[Network]
DHCP=yes

systemctl restart systemd-networkd.service

=====DESKTOP=============

install the xrog group package pacman -S xorg

Check GPU: $ lspci -v | grep -A1 -e VGA -e 3D

install the driver. correct driver from https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/xorg-drivers/. or search :

pacman -Ss xf86-video

In my case vmware:

pacman -S xf86-video-vmware

Install a desktop environment, in my case KDE Plasma

pacman -S plasma

to have a better time in kde install this stuff. kde-applications adds some bloat, but something in there is needed for plasma discover package manager to work properly (potentially appstream and appstream-qt):

pacman -S konsole packagekit packagekit-qt5 kde-applications

install a display manager. Im my case LightDM:

pacman -S lightdm

configure the greeter:

pacman -S xorg-server lightdm-gtk-greeter

systemctl enable lightdm

to test install xorg-server-xephyr then run lightdm --test-mode --debug

reboot

There is a KDE bug that will not let virtualbox resolution go higher than 800x600. Change the virtual box display adapter to VBoxSVGA instead of VMSVGA