Arch setup

This is a repository to save my personal preferences in a simple setup that can be executed to install arch fast

Get the code

Here is a quick guide that you can think of to know ways that you can use this repository

• Download the setup.sh script into a pendrive and boot into the machine
• Setup git on the machine and donwload the repository via https git link

Pre setup

Here is a tutorial of how you can setup arch before you can run the setup script

Test the internet conection

Before you start the instalation you should test if you have internet connection ping google.com

Setup the keyboard

Load the keyboard keys with

• Run loadkeys br-abnt2

Partition the disk

Here are the steps to make the partitions in the instalation disk

1. Run fdisk -l
2. Run fdisk /dev/disk-to-install-arch

Format the partitions

Now you need to format the disk partitions that you will use to install arch linux

• Efi: mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/efi-partition
• Root: mkfs.ext4 /dev/root-partition
• Swap: mkswap /dev/swap-partition

Mount the disks

And mount the disks with the following mounting table

• Root: mount /dev/root-partition /mnt
• Efi: mount --mkdir /dev/efi-partition /mnt/boot
• Swap: swapon /dev/swap-partition

Install basic packages

Install the packages to make just arch linux work by itself with this command

• pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware neovim dhcpcd networkmanager grub efibootmgr git we will install on the /mnt, where /root-partition is mounted

Generating fstab

Generate the fstab is important to the system know how mount the disks on the system boot

• genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab or just run the script gen-fstab.sh

Go inside the system

To go inside the system just run

• arch-chroot /mnt

File editions

Here are some file editions that you need to do

Generate the locale.gen

1. Edit /etc/locale.gen
2. Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
3. Run locale-gen

Locale.conf

1. Edit /etc/locale.conf
2. Add LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to the file

Fix permanently the keyboard

1. Edit the file /etc/vconsole.conf
2. Add KEYMAP=br-abnt2 and save it

Hostname

1. Edit /etc/hostname
2. Set your hostname there like linus

Set the initramfs

We should run mkinitcpio -P to set the initramfs

Set the password for root

Set the root password with this command passwd

Enable the network

To enable the network you should run this command

• systemctl enable NetworkManager dhcpcd

Setup the boot loader

Now there are two commands that you should run to set the bootloader

1. grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
2. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Reboot the system

Now just exit the chroot with the command exit and reboot the system with reboot