The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description.
- Image from https://www.archlinux.org/
dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux
If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration.
wifi-menu
cgdisk /dev/nvme0n1
1 512MB EFI partition # Hex code ef00
2 100% size partiton # (to be encrypted) Hex code 8300
mkfs.vfat -F32 -n EFI /dev/nvme0n1p1
Note: Many NVMe drives can exceed 2GB/s, consider your crypto algorithm wisely, review cryptsetup benchmark
, the defaults are viewable end of cryptsetup --help
, defaults are commonly the fastest with good security from my experience with cryptsetup (AES 256, sha256, 2000ms)
cryptsetup --use-random luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p2
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 luks
This creates one partions for root, modify if /home or other partitions should be on separate partitions
pvcreate /dev/mapper/luks
vgcreate vg0 /dev/mapper/luks
lvcreate --size 16G vg0 --name swap
lvcreate -l +100%FREE vg0 --name root
mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/mapper/vg0-root
mkswap /dev/mapper/vg0-swap
mount /dev/mapper/vg0-root /mnt # /mnt is the installed system
swapon /dev/mapper/vg0-swap # Not needed but a good thing to test
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
Also includes stuff needed for starting wifi when first booting into the newly installed system Unless vim and zsh are desired these can be removed from the command. Dialog is needed by wifi-menu
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel zsh neovim git sudo efibootmgr dialog wpa_supplicant tmux intel-ucode
genfstab -pU /mnt | tee -a /mnt/etc/fstab
#tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
Also change relatime on all non-boot partitions to noatime (reduces wear if using an SSD)
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc
echo MYHOSTNAME > /etc/hostname
Uncomment wanted locales in /etc/locale.gen
vim /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
To avoid problems with gnome-terminal set locale system wide Do NOT set LC_ALL=C. It overrides all the locale vars and messes up special characters Pay attention to the UTF-8. Capital letters !
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf
echo LC_ALL= >> /etc/locale.conf
passwd
groupadd MYUSERNAME
useradd -m -g MYUSERNAME -G wheel,storage,power,network,uucp -s /bin/zsh MYUSERNAME
passwd MYUSERNAME
vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- Add 'ext4' to MODULES
- Add 'encrypt' and 'lvm2' to HOOKS before filesystems
- Add 'resume' after 'lvm2' (also has to be after 'udev')
mkinitcpio -p linux
bootctl --path=/boot install
echo default arch >> /boot/loader/loader.conf
echo timeout 5 >> /boot/loader/loader.conf
nvim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
<UUID>
is the the one of the raw encrypted device (/dev/nvme0n1p2). It can be found with the blkid
command
title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /intel-ucode.img
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options cryptdevice=UUID=<UUID>:vg0 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root resume=/dev/mapper/vg0-swap rw intel_pstate=no_hwp
exit
umount -R /mnt
swapoff -a
reboot