How to install Arch without pain ??

Foreword

I've heard that some people find Arch difficult to install. They're partly right, but for anyone who can figure out how to install and configure linux, installing Arch is pretty straightforward. It is also the most flexible distribution, so you can customize it better than other distributions.

This guide is a composite hodgepodge of all the guides that I have read (both Russian and foreign). Its goal is to show you a step-by-step installation of Arch and do it in Russian, simply and without unnecessary technical information . The main thing is that the article was written from the non-understanding for the non-understanding. I will say in advance that some screenshots will already be from the installed Arch , but this in no way changes the work of the commands and what you will see when using them.

So let's start simple.

Go to the site and download the ISO file:

There we are looking for a mirror (most likely Russian) and download the image:

To simplify further life, it is better to download Etcher , right on the site there is a pretty clear instruction in pictures, so everyone can handle it.

Installation

// VirtualBox, ,

1. :

2. '' EFI'':

3. , IDE

Enter

:

, Arch .

ping -c 3  google.com

wifi , :

wifi-menu

, , . USB HDD\SSD .

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lsblk

, - , .

fdisk -l

. cfdisk gpt :

cfdisk /dev/sda

B! lsblk fdisk sda , , , sdb.

3 :

/dev/sda1 # 1G UEFI
/dev/sda2 # 10-15 GB root
/dev/sda3 # home

PS: ,

lsblk . , /dev/sda 3 .

, UEFi
```
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
```
root
```
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
```
home
```
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
```

root home:

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home

lsblk

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pacstrap -i /mnt base linux linux-firmware sudo nano

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fstab

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

Chroot

Chroot (change root) , root ( ).

arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

nano /etc/locale.gen

#en_US.UTF-8 #, . PS: Ctrl + W .

Ctrl + O, Enter Ctrl + X, Enter

, locale.conf .

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

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/

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ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kaliningrad /etc/localtime

2 . , .

hwclock --systohc --utc
date

ArchMe, :

echo ArchMe > /etc/hostname

localhosts ip. ip , .

nano /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1 localhost.localdomain ArchMe

pacman -S networkmanager
systemctl enable NetworkManager

GRUB

root :

passwd

GRUB — , , ( EFI). , .

pacman -S grub efibootmgr
mkdir /boot/efi
mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
lsblk #       
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --efi-directory=/boot/efi --removable
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit
umount -R /mnt
reboot

. , GRUB

root swapfile (- )

fallocate -l 3G /swapfile

chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' >> /etc/fstab

, swap:

free -m

useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash username
passwd username

username , )

EDITOR=nano visudo

there we look for and remove #, and then Ctrl + O , then Enter and Ctrl + X , then Enter

# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Firewood

pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa xorg xorg-xinit xorg-server

You will be offered a choice, choose based on your schedule.

Environment

First, I'll show you how to install a fairly simple XFCE

pacman -S xfce4 lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
echo "exec startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc
systemctl enable lightdm

And my favorite i3, there we select packages 2 4 5. You may see squares instead of symbols, but that's ok, you just need to download the font dejavu ( pacman -S ttf-dejavu). The list of hotkeys can be found here

echo "exec i3"  > ~/.xinitrc
sudo pacman -S i3

If you decide to change your environment, you will need to change the entry in the xinitrc file .

To start your environment use

startx

How do I install Arch with minimal pain?