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System installation

Set keymap/console font

loadkeys us
setfont /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/sun12x22.psfu.gz

Partition scheme

I have 2 SSDs in my current configuration:

  • /dev/nvme1n1: 238,49 GiB,
  • /dev/nvme0n1: 465,78 GiB

I use the first disk for the path / home while the other for the root (/), the final result is:

  • /dev/nvme1n1p1 238,5G /home
  • /dev/nvme0n1p1 976M /boot
  • /dev/nvme0n1p3 464,3G /

File systems

For my configuration I use the ext4 file system for the root and home paths:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme1n1p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3

The EFI partition requires the FAT file system:

mkfs.fat /dev/nvme0n1p1

Mount points

Creating paths for mount points in /mnt:

mkdir -p /mnt/home /mnt/boot

According with the previous configuration, mount the partitions:

mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt/home
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

System installation

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware net-tools dialog netctl networkmanager wpa_supplicant efibootmgr dhcpcd nano lvm2

fstab

Generate fstab and enter chroot:

genfstab -pU /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt

Systemdboot

Go with systemdboot configuration:

bootctl --path=/boot install

creating a new loader for archlinux installation in /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf:

title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=UUID=1b37449b-c8e6-467a-9c28-39d5e65546d1

add loader at /boot/loader/loader.conf:

default arch.conf

Replace udev with systemd in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, in HOOKS section.

paru installation (AUR)

Yet another yogurt:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

Linux Zen Kernel (optional)

Result of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems.

paru -S linux-zen linux-zen-headers

Create a new entry for systemdboot:

title Arch Linux Zen
linux /vmlinuz-linux-zen
initrd /initramfs-linux-zen.img
options root=UUID=1b37449b-c8e6-467a-9c28-39d5e65546d1

LVM (optional)

For LVM2 instalaltions edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, add lvm2 in HOOKS, regenerate the initramfs:

mkinitcpio -p linux

in /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf: the root options should be set to mapper:

options root=/dev/mapper/volume-root quiet rw

Hostname

Set hostname:

echo "mi" > /etc/hostname

Locale/Timezone

Set locale variables in /etc/locale.conf to it_IT.UTF-8:

LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=it_IT.UTF-8

Link Europe/Rome timezone ti localtime:

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

Users

After reboot I've added a new user:

useradd -m -g users -G wheel,video,audio,sys,lp,storage,scanner,games,network,disk,input -s /bin/bash my_new_user
passwd my_new_user

and decommented on visudo:

export EDITOR=nano
visudo

the line:

wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Ethernet

I'm using a cabled connection, so I need to boot up the card with the system.

Enable and start the dhcpd service:

systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
systemctl start dhcpcd.service

Find the card name (enp4s0 in my case):

ip addr | sed '/^[0-9]/!d;s/: <.*$//'

Adjust the /etc/rc.conf to fit your setup:

interface="enp4s0"
address=
netmask=
gateway=

Only the interface parameter is needed.

PipeWire

It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK.

pacman -S pipewire pipewire-pulse --needed

Ready to reboot

Don't reboot right away if you have anything else to install (e.g. a Desktop Environment).

exit
umount /mnt/home
umount /mnt/boot
umount /mnt
sync
reboot