Arch Linux installation

arch-install.txt

From a live USB
Assuming you are using EUFI

# ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

# iwctl
[iwd]# device list
[iwd]# station wlan0 scan
[iwd]# station wlan0 get-networks
[iwd]# station wlan0 connect SSID
[iwd]# quit
# ping -c 1 archlinux.org

# timedatectl set-ntp true

# fdisk -l
# cfdisk /dev/sda
/dev/sda1 ; 2G  ; EFI System
/dev/sda2 ; 8G  ; Linux swap
/dev/sda3 ; all ; Linux filesystem

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
# mkswap /dev/sda2
# mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1

# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
# mount --mkdir /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
# swapon /dev/sda2

# pacstrap -K /mnt base linux-lts linux-firmware sudo vim grub efibootmgr networkmanager man-db man-pages texinfo

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

# arch-chroot /mnt

[arch-chroot /mnt] # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/REGION/CITY /etc/localtime
[arch-chroot /mnt] # hwclock --systohc

[arch-chroot /mnt] # locale-gen
[arch-chroot /mnt] # echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

[arch-chroot /mnt] # echo "arch-host" > /etc/hostname

[arch-chroot /mnt] # passwd
[arch-chroot /mnt] # useradd -m -G wheel USER
[arch-chroot /mnt] # passwd USER
[arch-chroot /mnt] # EDITOR=vim visudo
[visudo]# USER ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
[visudo]# :wq

[arch-chroot /mnt] # systemctl status NetworkManager
[arch-chroot /mnt] # systemctl start NetworkManager
[arch-chroot /mnt] # systemctl enable NetworkManager

[arch-chroot /mnt] # nmcli device wifi list
[arch-chroot /mnt] # nmcli device wifi connect "SSID" password "password"
[arch-chroot /mnt] # nmcli connection show

[arch-chroot /mnt] # vim /etc/pacman.conf
[vim] ParallelDownload = 5
[vim] :wq

[arch-chroot /mnt] # grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
[arch-chroot /mnt] # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
[arch-chroot /mnt] # exit

# reboot

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$ sudo pacman -Syu
$ sudo pacman -S xorg-xinit xorg-server xorg-xdpyinfo \
      openbox obconf menumaker ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation \
      lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter conky dolphin xcompmgr reflector feh compmgr \
      firefox terminator

$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
$ mkdir -p ~/.config/openbox
$ cp -a /etc/xdg/openbox/ ~/.config/

$ sudo vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[vim] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
[vim] :wq
$ sudo systemctl status ligthdm
$ sudo systemctl start ligthdm
$ sudo systemctl enable ligthdm

$ mkdir -p ~/.config/conky && conky --print-config > ~/.config/conky/conky.conf
$ vim ~/.config/conky/conky.conf
[vim]
conky.config = {
    alignment = 'top_right',
    background = true,
    ...
}
[vim] :wq
$ echo "conky &" >> ~/.config/openbox/autostart
$ echo "feh --bg-scale WALLPAPER" >> ~/.config/openbox/autostart
$ echo "xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &" >> ~/.config/openbox/autostart

$ mmaker -v OpenBox3

$ vim /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
[vim] --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[vim] --country Italy,France,Germany
[vim] --protocol https
[vim] --latest 5
[vim] --sort rate
[vim] :wq
$ sudo systemctl start reflector.service
$ sudo systemctl start reflector.timer
$ sudo systemctl enable reflector.timer