# This is my personal install guide. It's what I use to install Arch. $USERNAME = "hello" $HOSTNAME = "world" ############ Part 0: Ensure you have the correct time timedatectl set-ntp true ############ Part 1: Make the disk partitions # Make a DOS partition table parted /dev/sda mklabel msdos # Create the primary partition parted /dev/sda mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 14GiB # Enable boot for the primary partition parted /dev/sda set 1 boot on # Create the swap partition parted /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap 14GiB 100% ############ Part 2: Make the filesystem # Make the filesystem ext4 mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1 # Mount the new filesystem mount /dev/sda1 /mnt # Make the swap file on the swap partition mkswap /dev/sda2 # Enable it swapon /dev/sda2 ############ Part 3: Install the base system # Install the base packages to the newly created filesystem pacstrap /mnt base base-devel # Mount the filesystem automatically on boot genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab ############ Part 4: Configure the new system # Set the hostname in all the necessary places echo "$HOSTNAME" > /mnt/etc/hostname echo "127.0.1.1 $HOSTNAME.localdomain $HOSTNAME" >> /mnt/etc/hosts # Set the language to English and use the en_US.UTF-8 locale echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /mnt/etc/locale.conf echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /mnt/etc/locale.gen # Explicitly set the keymap to US echo "KEYMAP=us" > /mnt/etc/vconsole.conf # Change the wait time from 90s to 10s, preventing the system from hanging at shutdown SYSTEMD="/mnt/etc/systemd/system.conf" echo "DefaultTimeoutStartSec=10s" >> $SYSTEMD echo "DefaultTimeoutStopSec=10s" >> $SYSTEMD # Enable colors in pacman by uncommenting the Color line PACMAN="/mnt/etc/pacman.conf" sed -i '/Color/s/^#//g' $PACMAN # Give the wheel group permission to use the sudo and su commands echo "%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /mnt/etc/sudoers # Make the grub window bigger sed -i '/GRUB_GFXMODE/c\GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024' /mnt/etc/default/grub # (Important!) Font settings ============ FONTS="/etc/fonts" # Disable embedded bitmaps for all fonts ln -s $FONTS/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf $FONTS/conf.d # Enable sub-pixel RGB rendering ln -s $FONTS/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf $FONTS/conf.d # Enable the LCD filter (reduces color fringing) ln -s $FONTS/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf $FONTS/conf.d ############ Part 5: Run some final commands inside the system # Generate the locale arch-chroot /mnt locale-gen # Install grub to the primary partition arch-chroot /mnt grub-install /dev/sda # Make the configuration file for grub arch-chroot /mnt grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg # Save the hardware information arch-chroot /mnt mkinitcpio -p linux # Change the shell of root to fish arch-chroot /mnt chsh -s /bin/fish # Create a new user account arch-chroot /mnt useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /usr/bin/fish $USERNAME # Add a password to the newly created user account echo "echo $USERNAME:$USERNAME | chpasswd" > /mnt/root/chpasswd.sh chmod +x /mnt/root/chpasswd.sh arch-chroot /mnt /root/chpasswd.sh ############ Part 6: Clean up and reboot # Unmount the filesystem umount /mnt # Reboot the system reboot