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Arch Linux Setup Guide:

  • Grab Arch iso and boot from it

  • ip link to check the wifi hardware; ip link show

  • Configure wifi with iwctl iwctl -> follow it

  • timedatectl set-ntp true

  • Partition the disks with fdisk -> swap and root partitions, and boot? fdisk hardrive of choice d to delete existing partitikons n to create new ones

EFI -> n, Y, +512M, t, EFI Root -> n, Y, Y

How do I encrypt the disk? -> LUKS on a partition

  • prepare the disk pre-encryption
  • create the normal partitions

    cryptsetup -y -v luksFormat /dev/sda2

    cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 cryptroot

    mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/cryptroot

    mount /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 -> EFI partition system

  • configure mkinitcpio HOOKS=(base udev autodetect keyboard keymap consolefont modconf block encrypt filesystems fsck)
  • configure the boot loader cryptdevice=UUID=device-UUID:cryptroot root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot

and then that should give you your encrypted root :D

  • Format the file systems as needed; -> choose btrfs (how do we do this?) -> mkswap

[how do you setup btrfs…]

  • Mount partitions -> root is mounted on /mnt -> swapon the swap partition

  • Edit the mirrorlist to find closest mirrors

  • pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

  • genfstab -U /mnt » /mnt/etc/fstab

  • arch-chroot /mnt

  • Network

CREATE /etc/hostname with hostname

systemctl enable systemd-resolved systemctl enable systemd-networkd Create this file:

/etc/systemd/network/25-wireless.network [Match] Name=wlp2s0

[Network] DHCP=yes

  • mkinitcpio -P

  • bootloader time -> most likely GRUB

sudo pacman -S GRUB grub-install –target=x86_64-efi –efi-directory=esp –bootloader-id=GRUB grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Make sure to detect other operating systems

  • Reboot and login as root

  • Create user so that you don’t mess around as root

  • Install a few other things:
  • git
  • openssh
  • redshift
  • code (VS code editor)
  • nano
  • vim
  • firefox
  • xcape
  • rofi
  • xfce4 (all the packages)
  • xclip
  • Xorg (I know maybe should change to Wayland)
  • linux-firmware
  • file-roller
  • gedit

  • conky

  • Display Manager yo

  • Choose Xfce Session from the menu in a display manager of choice, or add exec startxfce4 to Xinitrc.