Arch Linux Installation (UEFI/BIOS)

Preparation

Download Arch Linux ISO
Make a booteable pendrive using some software. Like Balena Etcher or dd bash program.
Connect the booteable pendrive to your PC and then boot from it.

First steps

load keyword language (example spanish)

root@archiso# loadkeys es

Wifi Configuration

Get the wifi adapter name (wlan0 in this example)

root@archiso# ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether g2:gb:6g:6g:g3:g9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr f4:fg:gd:d6:97:gg

Set the wifi adapter up

root@archiso# ip link set wlan0 up

Configure wifi (essid: network name, password: network password)

root@archiso# wpa_passphrase essid password > /etc/wifiConfig
root@archiso# wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wifiConfig
root@archiso# dhclient

Test connection

root@archiso# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=10.5 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=13.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 time=11.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=116 time=11.9 ms
...

IMPORTANT!

Check if your computer has UEFI or BIOS

This is the UEFI output look like

root@archiso# ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
 AcpiGlobalVariable-af9ffd67-ec10-488a-9dfc-6cbf5ee22c2e
 AcpiGlobalVariable-c020489e-6db2-4ef2-9aa5-ca06fc11d36a
 AdvMitAttrib-ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9
 AfterReadyToBoot-7b77fb8b-1e0d-4d7e-953f-3980a261e077
 AmiGopPolicySetupData-ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9
 AMITSESetup-c811fa38-42c8-4579-a9bb-60e94eddfb34
 BiosSetupType-ec87d643-eba4-4bb5-a1e5-3f3e36b20da9
 ...

This is the BIOS output look like

root@archiso# ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
file or directory does not exist

Summing up: UEFI = some output, BIOS = directory not found

Partitions (UEFI)

Run to enter the partition manager (if a menu shows up, choose GPT option)

root@archiso# cfdisk

Basic partitions

Partition	Size	Id Type
BOOT	512M	EFI System
SWAP	Double RAM	Linux swap
SYSTEM	Rest of your GB	Linux filesystem

Format (UEFI)

root@archiso# mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1
root@archiso# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
root@archiso# mkswap /dev/sda3
root@archiso# swapon

Mount (UEFI)

root@archiso# /dev/sda2 /mnt
root@archiso# /mnt/boot
root@archiso# /mnt/boot/efi
root@archiso# /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

Partitions (BIOS)

Run to enter the partition manager (if a menu shows up, choose DOS option)

root@archiso# cfdisk

Basic partitions

Partition	Type	Size	Id Type
BOOTEABLE	Primary	512M	83 Linux
SWAP	Primary	Double RAM	82 Linux swap
SYSTEM	Primary	Rest of your GB	83 Linux

Format (BIOS)

root@archiso# mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1
root@archiso# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
root@archiso# mkswap /dev/sda3
root@archiso# swapon

Mount (BIOS)

root@archiso# /dev/sda2 /mnt
root@archiso# /mnt/boot
root@archiso# /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

Install basic packages (UEFI)

root@archiso# pacstrap /mnt linux linux-firmware base nano grub networkmanager dhcpcd netctl wpa_supplicant dialog efibootmgr

Install basic packages (BIOS)

root@archiso# pacstrap /mnt linux linux-firmware base nano grub networkmanager dhcpcd netctl wpa_supplicant dialog

Generate fstab (UEFI & BIOS)

root@archiso# genfstab /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Check

root@archiso# cat /mnt/etc/fstab
# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# UUID=XXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
/dev/sda2           	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 1
...

Host, Clock and Locale configurations (UEFI & BIOS)

Mount the filesystem

root@archiso# arch-chroot /mnt

Set Host name (whatever name you choose)

root@archiso# echo your_host_name > /etc/hostname

Set localtime (choose yours, this is an example with Argentina)

root@archiso# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires /etc/localtime

Set keyword distribution

root@archiso# nano /etc/locale.gen

Uncomment the distribution you want (in this example: es_AR.UTF8 UTF8)

Save file pressing Ctrl+O and Ctrl+X to exit
Execute to generate locale:

root@archiso# locale-gen
Generating locales...
    es_AR.UTF8... done
Generation complete.

Set Clock

root@archiso# hwclock -w

Set language (again, this is an example with Argentina)

root@archiso# echo KEYMAP=es > /etc/wconsole.conf
root@archiso# echo LANG=es_AR.UTF8 > /etc/locale.conf

Installing GRUB (UEFI)

Run grub-install with this params

root@archiso# grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader -id='Arch Linux' --target=x86_64-efi
Installing for x86_64-efi platform
Installation finished. No error reported.

Configure grub

root@archiso# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub installation file...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Found fallback initrd image(s) in /boot: initramfs-linux-fallback.img
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other booteable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
done

Installing GRUB (BIOS)

Run grub-install with this params

root@archiso# grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform
Installation finished. No error reported.

Configure grub

root@archiso# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub installation file...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Found fallback initrd image(s) in /boot: initramfs-linux-fallback.img
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other booteable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.
Adding boot menu entry for ...
done

Root and User configuration (UEFI & BIOS)

Set root password

root@archiso# passwd
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully

Create user and set password

root@archiso# useradd -m your_user_name
root@archiso# passwd your_user_name
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully

Umount and reboot system

root@archiso# exit
root@archiso# umount -R /mnt
root@archiso# reboot

Wifi Configuration (UEFI & BIOS)

Enter your user name to login

Arch Linux 5.17.1-arch1-1 (tty1)

your_host_name login:
Password:

Change to root login

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~ ]$ su
Password:

Enable Network Manager

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# systemctl start NetworkManager
[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# systemctl enable NetworkManager
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants/NetworkManager-wait-online.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager-wait-online.service

Get the wifi adapter name (wlp0s9j1 in this example)

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]#ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: wlp0s9j1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether g2:gb:6g:6g:g3:g9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr f4:fg:gd:d6:97:gg

Set the wifi adapter up (wlp0s9j1 in this example)

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# ip link set wlp0s9j1 up

Connet to wifi (essid: network name, your_password: network password)

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# nmcli dev wifi connect essid password your_password

Drivers (UEFI & BIOS)

Check video controllers (in this example: Intel Graphics)

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)

According to the output of the previous step, install one of these video cotrollers:

NVIDIA

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# pacman -S xf86-video-nouveau

INTEL

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# pacman -S xf86-video-intel intel-ucode

AMD/ATI IMPORTANT for AMD troubleshooting

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu

AUR repositories

Install base-devel

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

Download and install paru

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ cd paru
[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ makepkg -si

Environment (UEFI & BIOS)

Lightdm

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# pacman -S --needed xorg lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings

Enable DM

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# systemctl enable lightdm

Reboot

[root@your_host_name your_user_name]# reboot

More configurations after your first login

Bluetooth - Official Doc

Install bluetooth

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils blueman

Edit bluetooth configuration

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo nano /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

Set AutoEnable to true

Enable bluetooth

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo systemctl start bluetooth
[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo systemctl enable bluetooth

Audio - Official Doc

Install audio

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth pavucontrol

Start Pulse Audio

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo systemctl start pulseaudio

Extras

[your_user_name@your_host_name ~]$ sudo pacman -S libreoffice-still mpv neovim transmission-cli gimp

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Arch Linux Installation (UEFI/BIOS)

Preparation

First steps

Wifi Configuration

IMPORTANT!

Check if your computer has UEFI or BIOS

Summing up: UEFI = some output, BIOS = directory not found

Partitions (UEFI)

Format (UEFI)

Mount (UEFI)

Partitions (BIOS)

Format (BIOS)

Mount (BIOS)

Install basic packages (UEFI)

Install basic packages (BIOS)

Generate fstab (UEFI & BIOS)

Host, Clock and Locale configurations (UEFI & BIOS)

Installing GRUB (UEFI)

Installing GRUB (BIOS)

Root and User configuration (UEFI & BIOS)

Wifi Configuration (UEFI & BIOS)

Drivers (UEFI & BIOS)

According to the output of the previous step, install one of these video cotrollers:

AUR repositories

Environment (UEFI & BIOS)

More configurations after your first login

Bluetooth - Official Doc

Audio - Official Doc

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Preparation

First steps

Wifi Configuration

IMPORTANT!

Check if your computer has UEFI or BIOS

Summing up: UEFI = some output, BIOS = directory not found

Partitions (UEFI)

Format (UEFI)

Mount (UEFI)

Partitions (BIOS)

Format (BIOS)

Mount (BIOS)

Install basic packages (UEFI)

Install basic packages (BIOS)

Generate fstab (UEFI & BIOS)

Host, Clock and Locale configurations (UEFI & BIOS)

Installing GRUB (UEFI)

Installing GRUB (BIOS)

Root and User configuration (UEFI & BIOS)

Wifi Configuration (UEFI & BIOS)

Drivers (UEFI & BIOS)

According to the output of the previous step, install one of these video cotrollers:

AUR repositories

Environment (UEFI & BIOS)

More configurations after your first login

Bluetooth - Official Doc

Audio - Official Doc

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