Vmware10 Installing Arch

must ensure that the machine can surf the internet!

Create a virtual machine in 1.vmware10 (the same operation as installing other systems in the virtual machine).

2. Open the virtual machine created in the previous step.

3 Select the first entry

4 Automatic access to the root command line

5 Enter/dev (partition and format)

SDA represents the hard disk that is assigned to the system (it is not partitioned and formatted at this time)

6 Partitioning

Input: CFDISK/DEV/SDA into the partition interface

Select DOS into Partition tool

Use the bottom command option "New" to create 2 partitions, one root partition, another swap partition, set "Tyep" (Root partition Linux type, swap partition for Linux swap/solaris type), respectively. Write "Write" and Exit "quit" when you are finished. (the author only created 2 partitions, can be adjusted according to their own needs)

After exiting, you can view the result of the partition with the P option in FDISK/DEV/SDA:

7 Formatting partitions

Format sda1 as EXT4, format the SDA2 (swap partition) as swap, and activate with the Swapon command.

8 Mount Primary Partition:

9 Select Source (the author uses the source provided by 163)

Input: Nano/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Enter the source configuration file and add it at the beginning of the source list:

# #China

Server = http://mirrors.163.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

After the configuration is complete, CTRL + O saves, confirms, CTRL + X exits.

10 Starting the installation

Use the following command to install the system to the primary partition/mnt, which is the SDA1 partition we previously allocated.

To start the installation:

The installation process needs to download a lot of things, the process is long, installation time depends on the speed.

The following prompts indicate that the installation is complete:

Next you need to configure

11 Input: Genfstab-p/mnt >>/mnt/etc/fstab

Arch-chroot/mnt into the new system

13 Setting the time zone

14 Setting the host name

Nano/etc/hostname

Enter the name after CTRL + O to write, CTRL + X to exit.

15 Setting a password

passwd command:

16 Installing Network Tools:

17 Installing and configuring GRUB

To install Grub:

Grub is installed on the hard disk SDA and checked:

To configure GRUB:

18 Exit and restart

Exit->umount/mnt->reboot:

After rebooting, you can enter the system.

Vmware10 Installing Arch