ArchSetup

Make bootable USB

Use dd to create bootable USB

dd if=arch_installer.iso of=/dev/sdb status="progress"

On Windows use Rufus to create installer USB.

Boot into installer USB

1. Enable UEFI in computer firmware interface.

2. Make sure you booted into EFI mode.

   ls /sys/firmware/efi 
   

Prepare hard drive

1. Identify your hard drive with

   lsblk
   

2. Open hard drive with gdisk

   gdisk /dev/sda1
   

3. o to create new GPT

4. n for new partition

5. 10M for BIOS/MBR partition. Do not format. (citation needed)

6. Between 256M & 1G for EFI file system ef00

7. Make a 32M microsoft reserved 0c01 in case you want to install Windows suddenly.

8. Make Linux root partition

9. Make Linux swap 8300 with sized 2×memory size

10. Format partitions

    mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1
    mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda3
    

Installation

1. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt (main partition)
2. mkdir /mnt/boot
3. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot (efi partition)
4. pacstrap /mnt base base-devel arch-install-scripts b43-fwcutter btrfs-progs darkhttpd ddrescue efitools elinks exfat-utils f2fs-tools rsync fsarchiver grml-zsh-config intel-ucode ipw2100-fw ipw2200-fw lsscsi mc nfs-utils nmap networkmanager ntp pptpclient refind-efi rsync smartmontools usb_modeswitch wget wireless_tools vim wpa_supplicant
5. genfstab -t PARTUUID /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

Bootloader

1. arch-chroot /mnt

2. bootctl install

3. cd /boot/loader

4. vim loader.conf

   timeout 3
   default arch
   

5. vim entries/arch.conf

   title ArchLinux
   linux /vmliuz-linux
   initrd /intel-ucode.img
   initrd /initramfs-linux.img
   options root=PARTUUID=thepartuuid-without-quote rw
   

   :r ! blkid for reading it into vim.
   v for visual mode y to yank and p to paste.

Configuration

1. Set time zone:

   ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Dhaka /etc/localtime

2. Set hardware clock:

   hwclock --systohc

3. Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen then:

   locale-gen

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

5. vim /etc/hosts

   127.0.0.1	ButterSlide
   ::1		ButterSlide
   127.0.1.1	ButterSlide.localdomain	ButterSlide
   

6. echo "ButterSlide" > /etc/hostname

7. systemctl enable NetworkManager

8. systemctl enable fstrim.timer

9. passwd and set root password.

10. exit

11. reboot

Installing rEFInd bootloader

Once booted into newly installed system (not chroot), as root

1. rm -rf /boot/*
2. pacman -S linux refind-efi
3. mkinitcpio -p linux just to be safe.
4. refind-install

Moar Configuration

1. vim /etc/pacman.conf and add these lines:

   [AUR]
   SigLeve = Never
   Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
   

2. useradd -mg users -G wheel, storage, power -s /bin/zsh borhan

3. passwd borhan

4. visudo and uncomment:

   %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
   

   Installing Nvidia

5. sudo pacman -S linux-headers

6. sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms libglvnd nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings

7. sudo vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf add nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm to MODULES

   MODULES="nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm"
   

8. add those modules to rEFInd bootloader config too.

9. mkdir /etc/pacman.d/hooks

10. sudo vim /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook

    [Trigger]
    Operation=Install
    Operation=Upgrade
    Operation=Remove
    Type=Package
    Target=nvidia
    
    [Action]
    Depends=mkinitcpio
    When=PostTransaction
    Exec=/usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P