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Lean's edited this page Dec 12, 2025 · 37 revisions

Raspberry PI 4

This example is using sd card, feel free to change mmcblk to whatever partition you are using

  • wget "http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-aarch64-latest.tar.gz"
  • cfdisk /dev/mmcblk1

  • Creates one partition 512MB as FAT32

  • Creates another with ext4 (Linux Partition)

  • mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcblk1p1
  • mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk1p2
  • mkdir /mnt
  • mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /mnt
  • mkdir /mnt/boot
  • mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/boot
  • bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-aarch64-latest.tar.gz -C /mnt
  • genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

  • If you want to add some packages or change configurations before booting you can use arch-chroot /mnt

  • Pacman Init
# Execute this inside the sd card (chroot)
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm
pacman -Sy
  • umount /mnt/boot
  • umount /mnt
  • Now add the sd card into device and start it

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