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Notes for Installing Arch Linux

Arch Linux Install Notes

In the ISO

• 1: loadkeys de

• 2: lsblk

• 3: gdisk /dev/nvme0n1

  • x
  • z

• 4: reboot

• 5: loadkeys de

• 6: lsblk

• 7: cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1

  • p1 = 1GiB, EFI
  • p2 = 16GiB, Linux Swap
  • p3 = ENTER, Linux Filesystem

• 8: mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1

• 9: mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p2

• 10: swapon /dev/nvme0n1p2

• 11: mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3

• 12: mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt

• 13: mount --mkdir /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

• 14: mount --mkdir /dev/sda1 /mnt/media

• 15: pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware sof-firmware linux-headers nano networkmanager grub efibootmgr intel-ucode bash-completion

• 16: genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

• 17: arch-chroot /mnt

In the install

• 1: sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
• 2: nano /etc/pacman.conf
  • ILoveCandy
  • Parallel Downloads
  • Multilib
• 3: pacman -Syy
• 4: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
• 5: hwclock --systohc
• 6: nano /etc/locale.gen
  • de_DE.UTF-8
• 7: locale-gen
• 8: echo "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
• 9: echo "arch" > /etc/hostname
• 10: echo "KEYMAP=de" > /etc/vconsole.conf
• 11: useradd -m -G wheel,power -s /bin/bash justus
• 12: passwd justus
• 13: EDITOR=nano visudo
  • %wheel

Nvidia stuff

• 1: pacman -S nvidia-dkms libglvnd nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings
• 2: nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
  • MODULES (nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
• 3: nano /etc/default/grub
  • GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1"
• 4: exec /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P
• 5: arch-chroot /mnt

Grub

• 1: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=grub --removable
• 2: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• 3: exit
• 4: reboot

Audio Server / Pipewire

• 1: sudo pacman -S lib32-pipewire pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse gst-plugin-pipewire wireplumber rtkit
• 2: sudo usermod -a -G rtkit $USER
• 3: systemctl --user enable pipewire pipewire-pulse

Installing a DE

[Gnome]

• 1: sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-tweaks gdm gst-libav
• 2: sudo localectl set-keymap de
• 3: sudo systemctl enable gdm
• 4: reboot

[i3-wm]

• 1: git clone https://github.com/Justus0405/i3wm-dotfiles.git
• 2: cd i3wm-dotfiles/src/
• 3: chmod +x install.sh
• 4: ./install.sh

[ONLY FOR ME]

• 1: pactl list sources
• 2: pactl set-default-source alsa_input.usb-Solid_State_System_Co._Ltd._LCS_USB_Audio_000000000000-00.mono-fallback