Arch Linux on Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7 (i7-10710U)

Thinkpad-X1-CarbonGen7.md

Arch Linux on Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7 (i7-10710U)

• Download the latest ISO from https://www.archlinux.org/download
• sudo dd if=archlinux-2019.11.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sda bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync
• Boot the ISO
• IF and ONLY IF you have a 4k or some HiDPI screen and fonts are super super small
  • ls /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts
  • setfont latarcyrheb-sun32
• ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars verifies we booted in UEFI

Internet

• wifi-menu
• ping google.com
• timedatectl set-ntp true
• pacman -Sy pacman-contrib
• mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
• cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup | grep "United States" -A 1 | grep Server > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.scan
• rankmirrors -n 4 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.scan > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  • or curl -s "https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=US&protocol=https&use_mirror_status=on" | sed -e 's/^#Server/Server/' -e '/^#/d' | rankmirrors -n 5 - | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Disk

• cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1
  • Delete all existing
  • 512M - EFI
  • 32G - Linux Swap
  • Remaining - Linux Filesystem
• mkfs.fat /dev/nvme0n1p1
• mkfswap /dev/nvme0n1p2
  • swapon /dev/nvme0n1p2
• mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3

Mount

• mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
• mkdir /mnt/boot
• mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

Install Arch Linux Core

• pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware
• genfstab -L /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Configure Arch Linux Core

• arch-chroot /mnt
• pacman -S vim git
• vim /etc/pacman.conf
  • enable Color and Multilib
• echo en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.gen
• echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
• export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
• echo KEYMAP=us > /etc/vconsole.conf
• rm /etc/localtime
• ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime
• hwclock --systohc --utc
• echo arch-box > /etc/hostname
• echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" > /etc/hosts
• echo "::1 localhost" >> /etc/hosts
• echo "127.0.1.1 arch-box.localdomain arch-box" >> /etc/hosts
• useradd -mg users -G wheel -s /bin/bash user
• passwd user
• bootctl --path=/boot install
• mkinitcpio -p linux
• cp /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/loader.conf /boot/loader/
• cp /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/arch.conf /boot/loader/entries/
• blkid /dev/nvme0n1p3 >> /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
• vim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
• vi /etc/sudoers

Install Desktop Environment

• pacman -S gnome gnome-extra
• systemctl enable NetworkManager
• systemctl enable gdm
• pacman -S xterm

yay

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay makepkg -si yay --noeditmenu --nodiffmenu --nocleanmenu --answeredit None --answerclean All --answerdiff None --save echo Color >> /etc/pacman.conf