

Check if there is an Internet connection (if on wired) ip addr show For WiFi, you can use wifi-menu wifi-menu If you do have a network connection but no IP address use: dhcpcd Edit the mirrorlist (optional) nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Update repository index pacman -Syyy See partitions/drives on the system (find the name of your hard drive) fdisk -l Start the partitioner (fdisk) fdisk /dev/ (substitute for your device name, example: /dev/sda or /dev/nvme0n1) Show current partitions p Create EFI partition g (to create an empty GPT partition table)Įnter Show current partitions again p Finalize partition changes w Format the EFI partition mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/ (for example: /dev/sda1) Format the rootfs partition mkfs.ext4 /dev/ (for example: /dev/sda2) Format the home partition mkfs.ext4 /dev/ (for example: /dev/sda3) Mount the root partition mount /dev/ /mnt Create the home partition mount point mkdir /mnt/home Mount the home volume mount /dev/ /mnt/home Create the /etc dirctory mkdir /mnt/etc Create the /etc/fstab file genfstab -U -p /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab Check the /etc/fstab file cat /mnt/etc/fstab Install Arch Linux base packages pacstrap -i /mnt base Access the in-progress Arch installation arch-chroot /mnt Install a kernel and headers pacman -S linux linux-headersįor LTS: pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers

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