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title	description	published	date	tags
Arch Linux Install guide		true	2019-06-20T08:41:15.282Z

Let's start.

This assumes your target disk is /dev/sda, you are running UEFI, you want rEFInd because it's cool, you are wired into ethernet for the install process, you use US keyboard, and mostly understand english

Alternatively, check out our installer

Partitioning

cgdisk /dev/sda

/dev/sda1 200M		(ef00) /boot   
/dev/sda2 $REST_OF_HDD	(8300) /     

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

Actual install

Install all packages needed (add what you need!)

pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel refind-efi xorg-server gnome gnome-extra firefox networkmanager htop zsh grml-zsh-config

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Get in there to configure

arch-chroot /mnt /bin/zsh

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

locale-gen

Users

passwd
chsh root -s /bin/zsh

useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/zsh user
passwd user

Enable services

systemctl enable NetworkManager gdm

Bootloader

refind-install

Kernel cmdline

Basically edit your boot options to be 'rw root=/dev/sda2', as sometimes rEFInd doesn't make this automatically

nano /boot/refind_linux.conf

Git out

exit reboot