How To Install Arch Linux With Pictures

Make sure that you have either BitTorrent or uTorrent installed. Go to https://www. archlinux. org/download/ in your browser. Click the Torrent link below the “BitTorrent” heading. Open the downloaded torrent in BitTorrent or uTorrent. Wait for the Arch Linux torrent file to finish downloading.

If your computer doesn’t have a DVD drive, you’ll need to buy an external DVD drive and attach it to your computer via USB cable.

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Skip this step on a Mac.

Skip this step on a Mac. On some PCs, you may first have to open an “Advanced” tab or select a “Boot Options” section.

Skip this step on a Mac.

Arch Linux has a easy-to-use utility for wireless networks called iwctl, as recommended when starting up . More info can be found here: https://wiki. archlinux. org/title/Iwd Note: This isn’t automatically installed onto your system, in order to do so you must download the iwd package. After that, enter systemctl enable –now iwd You also will have to download a DHCP Client. Download dhcpcd and enable the dhcpd daemon via systemctl enable –now dhcpcd

Type iwctl and press ↵ Enter Type station list and find what your network interface is. It is usually wlan0 Next, you should try finding what network name you want to connect to. Type station interface connect “ssid” (network name) If your network is password protected, you should enter your password to connect to your wifi. More info: https://wiki. archlinux. org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless

Type in fdisk -l and press ↵ Enter. Find the name of the largest hard drive on the results screen. The name will be something like “/dev/sda” and can be found to the right of the “Disk” heading.

For example: if the drive is named “/dev/sda”, you would type cfdisk /dev/sda into the terminal.

Select New and press ↵ Enter. Select Primary and press ↵ Enter. Type in a number of megabytes (e. g. , 1024 for one gigabyte) and press ↵ Enter. As a rule of thumb, you should make the swap partition 2 or 3 times your RAM (e. g. , if you have 4 gigabytes of RAM, you should make the swap partition 8192 or 12288 megabytes). Select End and press ↵ Enter.

Make sure that the Pri/Log Free Space partition is selected. Select New and press ↵ Enter. Select Primary and press ↵ Enter. Make sure that the number next to the “Size (in MB)” heading is correct. Press ↵ Enter. Select the primary partition again. Select Bootable and press ↵ Enter.

Select the “swap” partition. Select Type and press ↵ Enter. Type in 82 and press ↵ Enter. With the “swap” partition still selected, select Write and press ↵ Enter. Type in yes and press ↵ Enter.

For a partition named “sda2”, you’d enter mkfs. ext4 /dev/sda2 here.

For a “swap” partition named “sda1”, for example, you’d enter mkswap /dev/sda1 and then swapon /dev/sda1 here.

Select gpt if you see the option Partitioning in some aspects are easier in UEFI: People used to bios may notice that when creating a partition, you do not need to choose a primary or extended device.

Make sure to set the Partition to the EFI Type, Find Type and find “EFI System”, select that. If you see that there already is an EFI Partition, this usually means that you have some Operating System installed. If this is the case be very careful and don’t blindly enter commands while formatting.

A basic rule of thumb is the double amount of your ram. For example: if you have 8 GB of ram create a 16 GB Swap file. If you want to save space, you can set it to the amount of ram you have.

if you already have something on your EFI Partition DO NOT ENTER THE COMMAND. This will completely erase your current operating system’s bootloader and can complicate the install process. Make sure you know that you are formatting the right device. If not, enter fdisk –list

Note: this does not include a text editor nor other tools you may expect, if you didn’t install one, chroot (after generating the fstab file) into /mnt and do pacman -S nano [1] This process will usually take around 15-30 minutes depending on your Internet connection speed.

Type in passwd and press ↵ Enter. Type in a password and press ↵ Enter. Retype your password and press ↵ Enter.

Type in nano /etc/locale. gen and press ↵ Enter. Scroll down to select your preferred language. Select the letter directly in front of the “#” symbol behind your language and press Del. Delete the “#” symbol from any other versions of your language (e. g. , all versions of “en_US”). Press Ctrl+O (or ⌘ Command+O on a Mac), then press ↵ Enter. Exit by pressing Ctrl+X or ⌘ Command+X. Type in locale-gen and press ↵ Enter to finish setting up your language.

Type in cd usr/share/zoneinfo and press ↵ Enter. Type in ls and press ↵ Enter. Find your country or region, then type in cd usr/share/zoneinfo/country (e. g. , America) and press ↵ Enter. Type in ls again and press ↵ Enter. Find your preferred time zone, then type in ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/country/timezone /etc/localtime and press ↵ Enter.

Optionally, you can use cat. For example, if you want your hostname to be panda enter echo panda > /etc/hostname here.

Type in pacman -S grub and press ↵ Enter. Type in y and press ↵ Enter.

Type in grub-install /dev/drive name (e. g. , grub-install /dev/sda and press ↵ Enter.

make sure you mount these. Some people mount the efi directory in places such as boot or efi, however, this could cause issues.

you may also need some additional packages

There are reasons that aren’t strictly rare cases, such as installing RAID or LVM, however these are out of the scope of this guide.

No Internet Solution: If you are wireless and have made sure to install iwd, start the daemon, and enable iwd via systemctl and have no internet, it is likely you forgot to install dhcpc.