xps-dots/addons/install_arch.md

Install ARCH Linux with UEFI

The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description.

Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/

Copy to a usb-drive

dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux

Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration.

Installation Steps

Set finnish keymap

loadkeys fi

This assumes a wifi only system...

wifi-menu

Create partitions

cgdisk /dev/sda 1 512MB EFI partition # Hex code ef00 ;sda1 2 100% size partiton # (to be encrypted) Hex code 8300 ;sda2

Create EFI partition

mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1

Create filesystem on root partition

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

Create swapfile

fallocate -l 4G /swapfile chmod 600 /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapon /swapfile

Mount the new system

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt # /mnt is the installed system mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

Install the system also includes stuff needed for starting wifi when first booting into the newly installed system

Unless nvim and zsh are desired these can be removed from the command. Dialog is needed by wifi-menu

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware mkinitcpio e2fsprogs man zsh nvim git sudo networkmanager dialog wifi-menu wpa_supplicant wireless_tools gnome-keyring

'install' fstab

genfstab -pU /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Make /tmp a ramdisk (add the following line to /mnt/etc/fstab)

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

Add swapfile to fstab

/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

Change relatime on all non-boot partitions to noatime (reduces wear if using an SSD)

Enter the new system

arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Setup system clock

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Helsinki /etc/localtime hwclock --systohc --utc

Set the hostname

echo MYHOSTNAME > /etc/hostname

Generate locale

Uncomment wanted locales in /etc/locale.gen

vim /etc/locale.gen locale-gen localectl set-locale LANG=en_IE.UTF-8

To avoid problems with gnome-terminal set locale system wide

Do N-OT set LC_ALL=C. It overrides all the locale vars and messes up special characters

Pay attention to the UTF-8. Capital letters !

echo LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf echo LC_ALL= >> /etc/locale.conf

Set password for root

passwd

Add real user remove -s flag if you don't whish to use zsh

useradd -m -g users -G audio,video,network,rfkill,input,wheel,storage,power -s /bin/zsh MYUSERNAME passwd MYUSERNAME

Configure mkinitcpio with modules needed for the initrd image

nvim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Regenerate initrd image

mkinitcpio -p linux

Setup systembootd (grub will not work on nvme at this moment), install Intel microcode

pacman -S intel-ucode bootctl install

Create loader.conf

echo 'default Arch' >> /boot/loader/loader.conf echo 'timeout 10' >> /boot/loader/loader.conf

Create arch.conf (or XYZ.conf for default XYZ in loader.conf)

nvim /boot/loader/entries/Arch.conf

Add the following content to Arch.conf

from /dev/sda2. It can be found with the 'blkid' command

title Arch Linux linux /vmlinuz-linux initrd /initramfs-linux.img options root=PARTUUID=xxxx-xxxxx-xxx-xxx rw blkid >> /boot/loader/entries/Arch.conf

Exit new system and go into the cd shell

exit

Unmount all partitions

umount -R /mnt swapoff -a

Reboot into the new system, don't forget to remove the cd/usb

reboot

On a new system you might want to check keymap and fix it?

localectl set-keymap --no-convert fi localectl set-x11-keymap fi

Install yay

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git -> cd yay -> makepkg -si

Mirrors

pacman -S reflector cp etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak reflector --latest 200 --protocol http --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Install X-server and graphics drivers

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-xinit xterm sudo pacman -Syyu

After scripts have completed install plug and vundle for neovim

curl -fLo ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.config/nvim/bundle/Vundle.vim

and tmux plugin manager

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm