install-notes.md

Installing Arch

Boot from a Live CD and find the disk that you're installing Arch on. In my case it's /dev/sda.

Begin making the partition table with parted and then format the partitions:

sudo parted /dev/sda
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0% 2M
(parted) set 1 bios_grub on
(parted) mkpart primary btrfs 512M 100%
(parted) quit
sudo mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1
sudo cryptsetup -y luksFormat /dev/sda2
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 cryptroot
sudo mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/mapper/cryptroot
sudo btrfs fi label /dev/mapper/cryptroot DATA

sudo mount /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt
sudo mkdir /mnt/boot
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
sudo pacstrap /mnt base base-devel neovim
sudo genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
sudo arch-chroot /mnt

Open this file and uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, or whatever locale you want to use.

nvim /etc/locale.gen

Then run:

locale-gen

Set the default language on boot and apply it for your current session too:

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

Link the preferred time zone to /etc/localtime:

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Zone/SubZone /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc
echo nice-system > /etc/hostname
pacman -S dhcpcd
systemctl enable dhcpcd
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
nvim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options rd.luks.name=59b76ec8-f0fd-4e01-9013-4b3a9da6e00f=cryptroot root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot rw elevator=deadline quiet splash nmi_watchdog=0

echo "default arch" > /boot/loader/loader.conf