Preface

A quick installation based …

Preface

A quick installation based on Arch wiki - Beginners' Guide

WITHOUT NETWORK CONFIGURATION
(INSTALL IN VIRTUAL MACHINE USING DHCP).
YOU NEED TO SETUP THE NETWORK OF THE MACHINE FIRST.

Network

Network configuration - ArchWiki

Partition

  • # lsblk
    • Check you are partitioning on the right disk.
    • (assume /dev/sda here)
  • # cgdisk /dev/sda
    • Partition Table
      • GPT - ef02 (BIOS boot partition) => /dev/sda1
        • 1M
        • MUST be the first partition of the disk.
        • IMPORTANT!! Set to BIOS Boot partition for grub2.
      • / - 8300 (Linux filesystem) => /dev/sda2
      • swap - 8200 (Linux swap) => /dev/sda3
      • home - 8302 (Linux /home) => /dev/sda4
    • Write -> yes
    • QUIT
  • # lsblk
    • Check if the partition scheme of the disk is right.

Create Filesystem

  • # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
    • ext4 for /
  • # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4
    • ext4 for home
  • # mkswap /dev/sda3 && swapon /dev/sda3
    • swap for swap

Mount partitionis

  • # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
  • # mkdir /mnt/home && mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home

Select a mirror

  • # vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    • Choose a mirror site that is the nearest from your machine
    • Copy it to the top of this mirrorlist.

Install the base system

  • # pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

Generate fstab

  • # genfstab -p /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
  • # vi /mnt/etc/fstab
    • Check if the fstab is right.

Chroot and configure the base system

  • # arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
    • After chroot, use bash.

Locale & Keymap

  • # vi /etc/locale.gen
    • Select needed encoding and uncomment them.
    • en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
    • zh_TW.UTF-8 UTF-8
  • # locale-gen
  • # echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
  • # echo "KEYMAP=us" > /etc/vconsole.conf

Timezone & Hardclock & Hostname

  • # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Taipei /etc/localtime
  • # hwclock --systohc --utc
  • # echo "$myhostname" > /etc/hostname

Configure the network (DHCP)

Create an initial ramdisk environment

  • If you won't modify /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, you can just skip this step.
  • # mkinitcpio -p linux after modified /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Set User

  • # passwd
    • set root password.
  • # useradd -m $user
    • add a user with home directory.
  • # passwd $user
    • set the password for the user.

Install and configure a bootloader

  • # pacman -S grub
  • # vi /etc/default/grub

  • # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

    • Generate the configuration file of grub

      If you didn't add the GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y mentioned above
      you would get error message and fail here.

  • # grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda

    If you didn't mark the GPT partition (1007KiB)
    as a BIOS Boot Partition
    you would get error message and fail here.
    the solution is in GRUB - ArchWiki

After installation

  • # exit
  • # umount -R /mnt
    • unmount the partitions
  • # reboot

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