My computer details:
Computer: HP Pavilion laptop
CPU: Intel i5-8250U
GPU: NVIDIA MX150
Pre-installation
Verify the boot mode
To verify if it is UEFI mode, use this command:
ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
If it show some details, the system is UEFI. Otherwise, the system may be booted in BIOS or CSM mode.
Connect to the internet
Because I'm using HP laptop. so i just need connect to wifi with this command wifi-menu
. If you want to connect to wired network, reference official guide about dhcpcd
You can check this connection by ping www.archlinux.org
.
Update the system clock
Use timedatectl set-ntp true
to ensure the system clock is accurate, to check the service status, use timedatectl status
.
Partition the disks
Use lsblk
or fdisk -l
to vertified device.
First, run fdisk /dev/sda
(note: if your device is /dev/sdX, run fdisk /dev/sdX
), and you will enter the fdisk dialog.
Next enter m
you will get help details. If you use a separate hard drive. enter g
to format it as GPT.
Next, enter n
to create new partitions, enter w
to exit if you finished.
This is my partition layout:
Mount points | Partition | Partition Type | Size |
---|---|---|---|
/mnt | /dev/sda3 | linux filesystem | 50G |
/mnt/boot | /dev/sda2 | linux filesystem | 500M |
/mnt/boot/EFI | /dev/sda1 | EFI system partition | 500M |
[swap] | /dev/sda4 | linux swap | 16G |
/mnt/home | /dev/sda5 | linux filesystem | 300G |
Format the partitions
If the EFI partition is on /dev/sdX0, run:
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdX0
If the root partition is on* /dev/sdX1* and will contain the ext4 file system, run:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1
If you created a partition for swap, initialize it with mkswap:
mkswap /dev/sdX2
swapon /dev/sdaX2
Run these commands if you use my layout:
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda5
mkswap /dev/sda4
swapon /dev/sda4
Mount the file systems
Run these commands if you use my layout:
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/boot/EFI
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/EFI
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/home
Installation
Select mirrors
- Open mirrorlist file by
nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
- Uncomment your selected server.
- save changes
### Install the base packages
Use
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
## Configure the system ### Generate an fstab file - Use
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
- Check it in case of errors:
cat /mnt/etc/fstab
### Into new system Runarch-chroot /mnt
### Timezone and Location Set Timezone:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime
Set the hardware clock:
hwclock --systohc
Set location
Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed locales in /etc/locale.gen, and generate it:
nano /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
By the way, the new system doesn't have vim
.
- Create the
locale.conf
and setLANG
variable:
nano /etc/locale.conf
LANG= en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
Network Config
- Create the hostname file and enter your hostname:
nano /etc/hostname
. - Add matching entries to hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname
Set root password
Run passwd
Enable microcode updates
pacman -S intel-ucode # for intel CPU
pacman -S amd-ucode # for amd CPU
Install and set Bootloader
I use grub, so:
- Install related packages:
pacman -S grub dosfstools efibootmgr
- Install grub
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/EFI --recheck
- Use the grub-mkconfig tool to generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Install Wireless LAN tools
I use wifi-menu
to connect to wifi, so I need this packages:
pacman -S wpa_supplicant dialog iw
Add a user
- Add a user
useradd -m -g users -s /bin/bash username
- Set password for user
passwd username
- Privilege escalation(sudo)
nano /etc/sudoers
and addusername ALL=(ALL) ALL
belowroot ALL=(ALL) ALL
Post-Installation
Install display server
Run the minimal command: pacman -S xorg-server
.
Install display driver
Because I use*NVIDIA MX150* graphics card, I use this xf86-video-nouveau
driver. For details you can referrence this. If you use amd card, you can read this
Thank you for reading!
I will continue to update this article later if I find something.
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