Arch Linux Installation Step BY Step

Please follow the commands to installArch Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGx97x8R-E

gpg --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --verify archlinux-2020.06.01-x86_64.iso.sig         ###checking the Signature

dd bs=4M if=archlinux-2020.06.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc status=progress && sync          ###iso to usb

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars    ##check the firmware

wifi-menu

timedatectl set-ntp true       ###setup time and date

lsblk     ###list disks

fdisk -l      ###find the disk

cfdisk /dev/sda       ##installation disk partition the disks

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2         ###format the EXT4 partition

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt      ###mount the root partition

mkdir /mnt/home              ###make the home directory

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home         ####mount the sda3 to home folder to use the user files

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware         ##installing the linux

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab           ##generating fstab file

cat /mnt/etc/fstab           ###display the fstab file

arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash            ###changing in to installed Arch

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/London /etc/localtime

hwclock --systohc --utc           ###settime zone

then set locale to en_GB.utf8

echo LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf

echo MyPC > /etc/hostname

nano /etc/hosts add this 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain MyPC

pacman -S networkmanager            ###installing Network Manager

systemctl enable NetworkManager              ###enabling the NetworkManager

###Create password using passwd  ####

pacman -S grub efibootmgr        ##installing grub and EFI manager

mkdir /boot/efi

mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi mounting the SDA1 in to efi partition

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --removable

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit

umount -R /mnt

reboot

useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash <username>

then change password using passwd

pacman -S sudo

EDITOR=nano visudo          ### uncomment the line %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

then exit and login with user account

sudo fallocate -l 3G /swapfile

sudo chmod 600 /swapfile         ##change the permission on swapfile

sudo mkswap /swapfile            ### format swapfile

sudo swapon /swapfile             #### turn swap

free -m              ### check the swapfile enabled or not

###then edit the fstab file add below line###

/swapfile none swap sw 0 0

sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa

sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu mesa

sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

sudo pacman -S xorg

sudo pacman -S xorg-server

sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies

startxfce4

sudo pacman -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

sudo systemctl enable lightdm