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<a href="/administration/yet-another-arch-guide/">Yet Another Arch Guide</a>
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<span class="post-date-day"><sup>30</sup></span><span class="post-date-separator">/</span><span class="post-date-month">Nov</span> <span class="post-date-year">2018</span>
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<span class="post-author-single">By <a class="post-author" target="">Kristof Vandam - Adam Verbeeck</a></span>
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<a class="post-category post-category-administration" href="https://blog.hagfi.sh//categories/administration">administration</a>
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<p>Setting up Arch with other bells and whistles.</p>
<h2 id="target">Target</h2>
<p>Lenovo X240
i5-4300U
8GB DDR3 RAM
500GB SSD</p>
<h2 id="pre-requirements">Pre-requirements</h2>
<ul>
<li>Bootable USB with Arch installer installed</li>
<li>Cabled connection</li>
<li>Device connected to a power supply</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="first-things-first">First things first</h2>
<h3 id="keyboard-layout">Keyboard layout</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">loadkeys [keyboard-identifier]
</code></pre><h3 id="check-your-internet-connection">Check your internet connection</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">ping archlinux.org
</code></pre><h3 id="set-timezone">Set timezone</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Brussels
</code></pre><h2 id="prepairing-your-disks">Prepairing your disks</h2>
<h3 id="check-which-disks-you-have-available">Check which disks you have available</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">fdisk -l
</code></pre><h3 id="partitioning">Partitioning</h3>
<p>Device your disk into individual partitions:</p>
<ol>
<li>boot</li>
<li>arch</li>
<li>windows</li>
</ol>
<h4 id="some-letters-we-gonna-use">Some letters we gonna use</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>p</strong> show your partition</li>
<li><strong>n</strong> new partition</li>
<li><strong>a</strong> set the bootflag</li>
<li><strong>t</strong> set the type</li>
<li><strong>L</strong> show available types</li>
<li><strong>w</strong> write the changes</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="the-actual-work">The actual work</h4>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">fdisk [your-disk]
</code></pre><p>press <strong>n</strong> to create a new partition, the first prompt asks the type of partition, use <strong>p</strong> for Primary
Partition number, enter.
first sector, enter.
goto &lsquo;Specify your sizes&rsquo;.</p>
<h4 id="specify-your-sizes">Specify your sizes</h4>
<p>+[SIZE][TGMK]</p>
<h4 id="set-the-bootflag">Set the bootflag</h4>
<p>A partition needs a bootflag for the MBR know which partition use at startup</p>
<h4 id="set-the-types">Set the types</h4>
<p>Use <strong>t</strong> to set the type:</p>
<p><strong>83</strong> for boot <em>(linux)</em>
<strong>8e</strong> for arch <em>(lvm)</em>
<strong>7</strong> for windows <em>(HPFS/NTFS/exFAT)</em></p>
<h3 id="lvm">LVM</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">pvcreate /dev/sda2
vgcreate vg0 /dev/sda2
lvcreate -L +2G -n swap vg0
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n swap vg0
</code></pre><h3 id="filesystems">Filesystems</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">mkswap /dev/mapper/vg0-swap
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/vg0-root
</code></pre><h3 id="mount-your-disks-and-strap-your-seatbelt-we-gonna-pacstrap">Mount your disks and strap your seatbelt, we gonna pacstrap</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">mount /dev/mapper/vg0-root /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
</code></pre><pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">pacstrap /mnt base base-devel vim bash-completion networkmanager
</code></pre><h3 id="make-sure-it-boots">Make sure it boots!</h3>
<p>genfstab -U /mnt &raquo; /mnt/etc/fstab</p>
<h3 id="making-it-yours">making it yours</h3>
<p>arch-chroot /mnt</p>
<h4 id="time-date-region">Time, Date, Region</h4>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
locale-gen
</code></pre><p>/etc/locale.conf</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">LANG=en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
</code></pre><p>/etc/vconsole.conf</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">KEYMAP=be-latin1
</code></pre><p>/etc/hostname</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">myhostname
</code></pre><p>/etc/hosts</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname
</code></pre><pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">passwd
</code></pre><h3 id="grub">Grub</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">pacman -S grub
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig &gt; /boot/grub/grub.cfg
</code></pre><p><em>Ignore warnings</em></p>
<h3 id="fstab">fstab</h3>
<p>Add swap to fstab</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">/dev/mapper/vg0-swap swap swap default 0 0
</code></pre><p>Check your work by swapping the swap</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">swapoff -a
mount -a
swapon -a
free
</code></pre><p>does your swap have bytes?</p>
<h3 id="lvm-cant-bot">LVM can&rsquo;t bot</h3>
<p>Add the LVM module to the mkinitcpio config file at /etc/mkinitcpio.conf</p>
<p>add <em>lvm2</em> to the HOOKS Array before filestystems</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">...
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 filestystems keyboard fsck)
...
</code></pre><pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">mkinitcpio -p linux
</code></pre><h3 id="cross-fingers---reboot">Cross fingers - reboot</h3>
<h3 id="enable-services">Enable services</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-.language-command" data-lang=".language-command">systemctl enable NetworkManager
systemctl start NetworkManager
</code></pre>
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