Arch Linux install notes

Installing arch linux on UEFI systems, these notes are copied from some old orgfile I have lying around

1. Assuming wired internet connection. Otherwise wifi-menu should save the day
2. Partition disks with cgdisk /dev/nvme0n1 (or lsblk to find the disk)

• EFI system, codename ef00 at 500M for partition 1
• Linux filesystem, codename 8300 for partitions 2 and 3
• DO NOT create a swap partition

3. Format partitions

• mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
• mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2
• mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3

4. Mount everything

• mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
• mkdir -p /mnt/boot
• mkdir -p /mnt/home/nsalas/perma
• mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
• mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/home/nsalas/perma

5. Had something about mirrors, but that has changed over time. Will update
6. Install the base system pacstrap /mnt linux base base-devel git neovim curl wget sudo
7. fstab: genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab. Check it.
8. chroot: arch-chroot /mnt
9. timezone: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Santiago /etc/localtime
10. hwclock --systohc. Dunno. w/e
11. nvim /etc/locale.gen and uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 I’ve needed es_CL.UTF-8 in the past but recently english only is fine
12. locale-gen
13. echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
14. echo minji > /etc/hostname or w/e hostname. She’s the best tho
15. Edit /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 minji.localdomain minji

16. passwd. This one should be hard because it’s root
17. pacman -S grub amd-ucode linux-firmware efibootmgr
18. grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=ARCH
19. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
20. pacman -S networkmanager network-manager-applet otherwise might not have internet. Wifi might be available through nmcli. Honestly haven’t checked because I haven’t set up a laptop recently.
21. exit
22. umount -R /mnt
23. reboot
24. Login as root, no problem
25. pacman -S zsh zsh-completions
26. groupadd docker
27. useradd -m -G wheel,docker,input -s /usr/bin/zsh nsalas
28. passwd nsalas
29. visudo, then search for wheel and uncomment. You know the drill
30. Might opt for doas here, but honestly is not too good of an option
31. systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
32. systemctl enable bluetooth.service
33. nvim /etc/pacman.conf and enable multilib
34. pacman -Syu shouldn’t have many updates. After this I believe dotfiles installing should be fine