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Installing arch linux
Creating bootable USB stick / booting
Download a *.iso file.
Finding the USB device:
lsblk
Copy the
*.iso file with
dd .
dd bs=1M if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=dev/sdX
Put USB stick into PC where it needs to be installed and turn it on.
Partitioning the hard disk
TODO: create a msdos partition table...
TODO: creating a UEFI ESP whatever thingy parted --align=optimal -s /dev/sda 'mklabel gpt mkpart primary 1MiB 1GiB mkpart primary 1GiB 6GiB mkpart primary 6GiB 100% t 1 boot unit GiB p'
-s is the flag for scripted. So I don't have to confirm anything or so, just press enter.
mkpart primary 1MiB 1GiB creates a approx 1GiB (primary) partition that's going to be used for the EFI System Partition (ESP).
mkpart primary 1GiB 6GiB creates a 5 GiB (primary) partition that's going to be used for
swap . It's size is 5GiB minus 1MiB.
mkpart primary 6GiB 100% creates another partition on the rest of the harddisk (that is: 100%) for the data.
t 1 boot toggles the first partition's boot flag (partition type becomes ef00).
unit GiB sets the unit for the …
p, the following print command.
Formatting and Initializing the partitions mkswap /dev/sda2
# ??? mkfs.fat /dev/sda1
mkfs.fat -F 32 -n EFIBOOT /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
swapon -s /dev/sda1
Verify if swap space is used:
swapon -s
Mount partition
Now that the partition is formatted, we need to mount it so that we can write the installation on it:
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
Connecting to internet
Since pacstrap (used below) needs an internet connection to get the most recent packages from a mirror, we need to start the internet:
wifi-menu
Test the connection
ping -c 1 8.8.8.8
Updating keyring
Apparently, when installing from an old *.iso file, the keyring(?) must be updated in order to suppress a update error: key "4A1AFC345EBE18F8" could not be looked up remotely .
This »problem« can be eliminated with
pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring
Start installation pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
Filling /etc/fstab
The
/etc/fstab file (which is currently mounted to
/mnt/etc/fstab) is (probably empty).
It can be filled with
genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
The -U flag uses UUIDs for source identifiers. By default, pseude filesystem mounts are excluded, so -p does not need to be specified.
chroot
Changing the root so as not to have to type /mnt every time.
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
locale
locale-gen
Apparently, it can be done even more simple:
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
Install bootloader pacman -S grub
grub-install /dev/sda
returned `error: cannot find EFI directory'. What is an EFI directory???
But with --target=i386-pc, it worked:
pacman -S grub
grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
pacman -S syslinux
syslinux-install_update -iam
Copy wifi connection
exit to leave chroot environment:
exit
cp /etc/netctl /tq84-wifi /mnt/etc/netctl/tq84-wifi