ArchLinux Installation Tutorials

First, prepare 1. Download image

Download the latest ISO image file here, use PowerISO or DD to burn to USB flash drive

$ dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync

2. Booting from USB stick

Boot after startup, you may need to close secure boot in the BIOS
Confirm whether the boot mode is EFI

# ls /sys/firmwre/efi/efivars

II. installation 1. Connection network (WLAN) interface activation: IP

• Use rfkill list to see if the WLAN is locked and unlocked if it is locked rfkill unblock .
• Using the ip link interface name to view the WLAN, similar to WLP9S0, use the
• Activating the WLAN interface, using the ip link set <wlan> up activation interface, after activation, ip link you can see that the status of the WLAN interface is displayed as similar

Wireless connection: IW

• Use iw dev <wlan> scan | less to view the scanned access point
• Using the iw <wlan> connect connection reference wiki

设接入点SSID为<SSID>无加密：# iw dev <wlan> connect <SSID>WEP加密使用十六进制或 ASCII 密码(格式是自动识别出来的，因为 WEP 密码长度是固定的):# iw dev <wlan> connect <SSID> key 0:<KEY>使用十六进制或 ASCII 密码，第三个是默认 (从0计数，共四个)# iw dev wlan0 connect your_essid key d:2:your_keyWPA/WPA2加密WPA/WPA2# wpa_supplicant -i <wlan> -c <(wpa_passphrase <SSID> <KEY>)

Get IP:DHCP

# dhcpcd <wlan>

2. Partition: Gdisk, MKFS set up partition

Use gdisk /dev/sdx the option to select the specified hard disk for partitioning, the following are the commands commonly used in Gdisk:

• ? Print the available commands
• P Print Partition Table
• o New GPT partition table
• N New Partition
• D Delete Partition
• Q Do not change the partition table and exit directly
• W will change the actual write to the hard disk

It is generally necessary to create at least the new/located partition (type code 8300), and you can mount the home or var directory to a separate partition. If necessary, you can also create a swap partition (type Code 8200), and if it is a blank hard disk, you also need to build the EFI partition (type code EF00)

formatting partitions

# mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 # mkswap /dev/sda3 # swapon /dev/sda3

Mount Partition: Mount

# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt # mkdir -p /mnt/home /mnt/boot/efi # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

3. Install the base system selection software source

Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist , add the source used. Such as

Server=https://ipv6.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

and then refresh

# pacman -Sy

Basic system

# pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

Generate Fstab

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

4. Configure Chroot to the new system

# arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Language regions

Edit /etc/locale.gen , remove a few lines of comments

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 zh_CN.GB18030 GB18030 zh_CN.GBK GBK zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8 zh_CN GB2312

And then run

# locale-gen

Last edited/etc/locale.conf

LANG=en.UTF-8

Terminal font (optional)

Edit /etc/vconsole.conf :

KEYMAP=usFONT=Lat2-Terminus16

Time

Connect the /etc/localtime Soft link to the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Zone/SubZone . Where Zone and Subzone replace the time zone, for example:

# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai /etc/localtime

Host name (optional)

# echo myhostname > /etc/hostname

Set Root password, add user

In addition to setting the Root password, add an account for the Administrators group to do the usual use:

# passwd# useradd -G wheel user# passwd user# chfn user# mkdir -m 700 /home/user# chown user:user /home/user

Installing and configuring Bootloader

# pacman -S grub os-prober efibootmgr# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=Arch --recheck# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

X Window Manager and some drive X window manager

#  pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit

Universal Graphics Driver

# pacman -S xf86-video-vesa

Drivers that support hardware acceleration can automatically prompt you to install when X is installed, just select the correct type of video card and do not need to be installed explicitly.

Sound card driver

# pacman -S alsa-utils

Input device driver

Input device drivers are installed automatically when X is installed, and generally do not require an explicit installation. However, laptops or touch screen users need to install Synaptics:

# pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

Virtual machines

If you are installing in VMware, install some drivers specifically for the virtual machine:

# pacman -S xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-video-vmware svga-dri

Install VMware Tools, select "Install VMware Tools" in VMware, and then:

# pacman -S linux-headers# for x in {0..6}; do mkdir -pv /etc/init.d/rc$x.d; done# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt# cd /root# tar zxf /mnt/VMwareTools*.tar.gz# cd vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl

Follow the instructions, if the final error, generally do not worry, after restarting VMware Tools to correctly start.

Install fonts

Install some commonly used Chinese and English fonts:

# pacman -S ttf-dejavu wqy-zenhei wqy-microhei

Installing the Desktop Environment (Deepin)

# pacman -S deepin deepin-extra

Configuring the LIGHTDM Login Manager

# vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Found it

#greeter-session=example-gtk-gnome

Remove the comment and change to:

greeter-session=lightdm-deepin-greeter

Start the LIGHTDM service

# systemctl enable lightdm.servicce

Restart can

5. Two note If these steps do not have NetworkManager installed, you cannot connect to the network after rebooting into the Deepin.

# pacman -S networkmanager# systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

Nouveau does not support GTX1060 and GTX1070 and requires the installation of Nvidia graphics cards

# pacman -S nvidia

If necessary, you can add Nouveau to blacklist

# echo blacklist nouveau >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf# mkinitcpio -p linux

Third, SSD optimization

See next article, optimized use of SSDs under Linux

Reference:

• Arch Linux Installation Guidelines
• Arch Linux Installation Deepin desktop environment
• Arch Linux wiki-wireless Network configuration

ArchLinux Installation Tutorials