arch-install/arch_install.md

Arch Install

Connect to Internet

If you are using wifi, use iwd

device list
station *device* get-networks
station *d

Install Guide

1. Turn on parallel downloads sed -i "s/^#ParallelDownloads = 5$/ParallelDownloads = 15/" /etc/pacman.conf

2. Install archlinux keyring pacman --noconfirm -Sy archlinux-keyring

3. Load layout, set time

loadkeys us
timedatectl set-ntp true

4. Create ext4, efi, swap partition

lsblk
cfdisk /dev/sdx or /dev/nvme0x

# Efi partition
mkfs.fat -F32 $efipartition

# Swap partition
mkswap $swappartition
swapon $swappartition

# ext4 partition
mkfs.ext4 $partition

5. Mount linux partition to /mnt mount $partition /mnt

6. Pacstrap

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware

7. genstab

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

8. chroot

arch-chroot /mnt

9. set timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime

10. set hardware clock from system clock

hwclock --systohc

11. set locale

echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
echo "KEYMAP=us" > /etc/vconsole.conf

12. set hostname

echo $hostname > /etc/hostname
echo "127.0.0.1       localhost" >> /etc/hosts
echo "::1             localhost" >> /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.1.1       $hostname.localdomain $hostname" >> /etc/hosts

13. Initramfs

mkinitcpio -P

14. Set root password

passwd

15. install grub

pacman --noconfirm -S grub efibootmgr os-prober
mkdir /boot/efi
mount $efipartition /boot/efi

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=archlinux --recheck

sed -i 's/quiet/pci=noaer/g' /etc/default/grub
sed -i 's/GRUB_TIMEOUT=5/GRUB_TIMEOUT=0/g' /etc/default/grub

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

16. Install all the required user packages

pacman -S --noconfirm hyprland waybar hyprlock hyprpaper hyprpolkitagent hyprshot gammastep swaync \
    noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-cjk ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd ttf-font-awesome \
    awesome-terminal-fonts bat libnotify ntfs-3g \
    jq mpv ncdu transmission-cli yt-dlp cowsay \
    pacman-contrib pavucontrol rsync ripgrep python-pywal \
    imlib2 zip unzip wget pcmanfm yazi stow \
    fzf man-db pipewire pipewire-pulse xcompmgr pamixer \
    sxhkd imagemagick network-manager git dash arc-gtk-theme papirus-icon-theme \
    neovim lua xdg-user-dirs mpd ncmpcpp unclutter \
    zsh zsh-autosuggestions zathura zathura-pdf-poppler

17. Enable networkmanager

# network manager
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

18. set shell

rm /bin/sh
ln -s dash /bin/sh

19. Set user permissions

echo "%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

20. Create user

useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/zsh $username
passwd $username

21. Setup dotfiles

cd $HOME
git clone git@github.com:krolyxon/dotfiles.git  ~/.dotfiles/
cd ~/.dotfiles; stow .

22. nsxiv: image viewer

git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/nsxiv.git ~/.local/src/nsxiv
sudo make -C ~/.local/src/nsxiv install

23. nvim: Text editor

git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/nvim.git ~/.config/nvim

24. paru: AUR helper

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git && cd paru-bin && makepkg -sri && cd .. && rm -rf paru-bin
paru -S --noconfirm htop-vim zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting-git keyd-git zen-browser-bin

25. set zsh as default shell

chsh -s $(which zsh)