arch

May need to run:

pacman-key --init 
pacman-key --populate
pacman-key --refresh-keys
pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

Disabling PC Speaker

rmmod pcspkr

Pre-installing

• If you're testing it on "VirtualBox" remember to enable UEFI

  • Settings > System > Motherboard > Enable EFI(special OSes only)

Keyboard

1. Find the keymap

   • ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/.map.gz | grep br

2. Setting keymap

   • localectl set-keymap --no-convert br-abnt2

Connect to internet

Wifi

1. Enter iwctl shell

   • iwctl

2. Follow the steps with:

   • help

3. Exit with:

   • quit

Update system clock

1. Just run

   • timedatectl set-ntp true

Partition disks

Preparing

1. Get disk list

   • fdisk -l

   •    Disk /dev/sda: 32GiB .......
        Disko model: ......
     

2. Select disk to partition

   • fdisk /dev/sda

Layout

• I'll be following the UEFI with GPT

Mount Point	Partition	Partition Type	Suggested Size
/mnt/boot or /mnt/efi	/dev/efi_system_partition	EFI system partition	550M
[SWAP]	/dev/swap_partition	Linux swap	2G
/mnt	/dev/root_partition	Linux x86-64 root (/)	Remainder of the device

EFI System Partition

1. Press g
   • Will create a Disk label
2. Press n
   • To add a new partition
3. Partition number
   • Default (just press enter)
4. First Sector
   • Default (press enter)
5. Last sector

   • +550M

Swap Partition

1. Press n
   • To add a new partition
2. Partition number
   • Default (just press enter)
3. First Sector
   • Default (press enter)
4. Last sector

   • +2G

Filesystem Partition

1. Press n
   • To add a new partition
2. Partition number
   • Default (just press enter)
3. First Sector
   • Default (press enter)
4. Last sector
   • Default (press enter)

Changing the partitions types

1. Press t

   • Partition number: 1

   • Partition type: 1 // EFI System

2. Press t

   • Partition number: 2

   • Partition type: 19 // Linux SWAP

Write tables and exit

1. Just prest w

Format the partitions

1. EFI System - FAT32

   • mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1

2. SWAP System - SWAP

   • mkswap /dev/sda2

   • Turn swap on

   • swapon /dev/sda2

3. Linux filesystem - Ext4

   • mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

Mount the file system

• mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

Installing

1. Using pacstrap to install base package, linux(Linux kernel) and linux-firmware(firmware for the hardware)

   • pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

Configure the system

1. Generate fstab file

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

2. Change root into the new system

   • arch-chroot /mnt

   • This will enter into arch shell

Set timezone

1. Get timezone list

   • ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/**/* | grep Sao_Paulo

2. Set timezone

   • ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo /etc/localtime

Adjust clock

hwclock --systohc

Set locale

1. Generate locale

   • locale-gen

2. Install a text editor

   • pacman -S vim

3. Create a local.conf

   • vim /etc/locale.conf

   • and add:

   •     LANG=en_US.UTF8
     

   • (Alternative)

     • localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF8

Persistent keyboard layout

1. Create vconsole.conf

   • vim /etc/vconsole.conf

   • and add:

   •     KEYMAP=br-abnt2
     

Network configuration

1. Define hostname

   • vim /etc/hostname

   • and add any name

   •     archrafa
     

2. Create /etc/hosts

   • vim /etc/hosts

   • and add any name

   •     127.0.0.1     localhost
         ::1           localhost
         127.0.1.1     archrafa.localdomain archrafa
     

3. Add root password

   • passwd

   • And type you password

Add user

1. useradd -m rafa

2. Give it some permission

   • usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage rafa

3. Give it a password:

   • passwd rafa

Give sudo privileges

1. Install sudo

   • pacman -S sudo

2. Give whell permission

   • EDITOR=vim visudo

3. Look for the line: # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
4. Uncomment it

Boot loader

1. Install some packages

   • pacman -S efibootmgr dosfstools os-prober mtools grub

   • Here you can also install any package that you want: git, asdf, ...
   • But I want to use yay to manage those packages
2. Mount into /boot/EFI

   • mkdir /boot/EFI

   • mount /dev/sda1 /boot/EFI

3. Installing grub

   • grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

4. Generating grub.cfg

   • grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Installing some packages

• pacman -S networkmanager

  • Just to ease the internet configuration

  systemctl enable NetworkManager

• pacman -S git

Rebooting

• exit

• umount -l /mnt

• If you on VirtualBox

  • shutdown now

  • Remove the ISO, and start the VM
• If you are on you machine

  • reboot

  • Remove the pendrive, or select another boot method on BIOS, idk

WiFi

• sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

• nmcli device status

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager

Xorg

• A display server

Installing

• pacman -S xorg-server

• pacman -S xorg xorg-xinit

• Driver Installation

  • pacman -S xf86-video-intel

  • Because Im using Intel Graphics
• important if you're using VirtualBox you need to instead install:

  • pacman -S xf86-video-vesa

  • pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils

Config files:

• Can be edited at:
  • /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  • /etc/xorg.conf

KDE Plasma

• Desktop Environment

Installing

1. pacman -S plama-meta

   • 2 //noto-fonts

   • 1 // phonon-qt5-gstreamer

   • Y

SDDM

• Display Manager

1. pacman -S sddm

i3-gaps

• Tiling window manager

Installing

1. pacman -S i3-gaps

2. pacman -S i3status // optional

Configuring

1. vim ~/.config/.xinitrc

2. Comment these:

twm &
// and anything between them
exec xterm....

3. Add: exec i3

Polybar

1. pacman -S polybar

Configuring

1. Enable sddm

   • sudo systemctl enable sddm

2. Enable NetworkManager

   • sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager

3. Add sddm config file

   • sudo vim /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/default.conf

4. Reboot

   • sudo systemctl reboot