Arch installation checklist

archInstallChecklist.md

• Disable secureboot and legacy boot
• Enable EFI (UEFI) boot
• Boot
• loadkeys cz-qwertz
• ping archlinux.org test internet connection
• If no internet:
  • connet ethernet cable
    • If ethernet cable connected and still no internet
      • modprobe -r tg3
      • modprobe broadcom
      • modprobe tg3
  • Connect to WiFi
    • iwctl
    • device list look at your wifi thing name
    • station device scan where device is your wifi thing name
    • station device get-networks look at available wifi networks
    • station device connect SSID where SSID is the SSID of the network you want to connect to
    • exit
• cfdisk and make 3 partitions
  • Boot partition - EFI System
  • Swap partition - Swap
  • Root partition - Linux root
• Make filesystems in partitions
  • mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sdXX boot
  • mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdXX root
  • mkswap /dev/sdXX swap
• mount /dev/sdXX /mnt root
• mkdir /mnt/boot mkdir /mnt/boot/efi
• mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/boot/efi
• swapon /dev/sdXX swap
• pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware base-devel sudo vim git zsh grub efibootmgr networkmanager reflector archlinux-keyring
• genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
• arch-chroot /mnt
• ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime
• hwclock --systohc
• vim /etc/locale.gen Uncomment needed locales
• locale-gen
• vim /etc/locale.conf LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 or LANG=en_US.UTF-8
• vim /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=cz-qwertz
• vim /etc/hostname hostname
• vim /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost \n ::1 localhost \n 127.0.1.1 *hostname*
• passwd set root password
• useradd -m username -G wheel

• visudo /etc/sudoers uncomment line with %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

• passwd username set user password
• grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --efi-directory=/boot/efi /dev/sdX just the drive, not the partition
• grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• exit exit chroot
• reboot reboot and remove instalation medium
• sudo systemctl enable networkmanager --now

after iwctl, it is needed to run dhcpcd