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Title = "Yet Another Arch Guide"
Author =  "Kristof Vandam - Adam Verbeeck"
Categories = [ "administration" ]
Tags = [ "arch" ]
Date = 2018-11-30T10:08:22+02:00
Truncated = true
Draft = false
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Setting up Arch with other bells and whistles.
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## Target
Lenovo X240
i5-4300U
8GB DDR3 RAM
500GB SSD

## Pre-requirements
* Bootable USB with Arch installer installed
* Cabled connection
* Device connected to a power supply

## First things first
### Keyboard layout

```.language-command
loadkeys [keyboard-identifier]
```

### Check your internet connection

```.language-command
ping archlinux.org
```

### Set timezone

```.language-command
timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Brussels
```

## Prepairing your disks
### Check which disks you have available
```.language-command
fdisk -l
```

### Partitioning

Device your disk into individual partitions:

1. boot
2. arch
3. windows

#### Some letters we gonna use

* **p** show your partition
* **n** new partition
* **a** set the bootflag
* **t** set the type
* **L** show available types
* **w** write the changes

#### The actual work

```.language-command
fdisk [your-disk]
```

press **n** to create a new partition, the first prompt asks the type of partition, use **p** for Primary
Partition number, enter.
first sector, enter.
goto 'Specify your sizes'.

#### Specify your sizes
+[SIZE][TGMK]

#### Set the bootflag
A partition needs a bootflag for the MBR know which partition use at startup

#### Set the types
Use **t** to set the type:

**83** for boot *(linux)*
**8e** for arch *(lvm)*
**7** for windows *(HPFS/NTFS/exFAT)*

### LVM

```.language-command
pvcreate /dev/sda2
vgcreate vg0 /dev/sda2
lvcreate -L +2G -n swap vg0
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n swap vg0
```

### Filesystems

```.language-command
mkswap /dev/mapper/vg0-swap
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/vg0-root
```

### Mount your disks and strap your seatbelt, we gonna pacstrap

```.language-command
mount /dev/mapper/vg0-root /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
```

```.language-command
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel vim bash-completion networkmanager
```

### Make sure it boots!
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

### making it yours
arch-chroot /mnt

#### Time, Date, Region
```.language-command
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
locale-gen
```

/etc/locale.conf
```.language-command
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
```

/etc/vconsole.conf
```.language-command
KEYMAP=be-latin1
```

/etc/hostname
```.language-command
myhostname
```

/etc/hosts
```.language-command
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1     localhost
127.0.0.1   myhostname.localdomain  myhostname
```

```.language-command
passwd
```

### Grub

```.language-command
pacman -S grub
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg
```
*Ignore warnings*

### fstab
Add swap to fstab
```.language-command
/dev/mapper/vg0-swap swap swap default 0 0
```

Check your work by swapping the swap
```.language-command
swapoff -a
mount -a
swapon -a
free
```
does your swap have bytes?

### LVM can't bot
Add the LVM module to the mkinitcpio config file at /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

add *lvm2* to the HOOKS Array before filestystems
```.language-command
...
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 filestystems keyboard fsck)
...
```

```.language-command
mkinitcpio -p linux
```

### Cross fingers - reboot

### Enable services
```.language-command
systemctl enable NetworkManager
systemctl start NetworkManager
```