mmena1 / archlive

A personal live iso based on Archlinux

archlive

(WIP)

This is my personal Arch Linux distro using archiso and based on https://github.com/midfingr/arch_livecd.

Post install

Restart the system and login to the newly installed Arch Linux OS. Be sure to follow the next instructions to fix some things.

Synchronize pacman repositories

Before doing anything you MUST have to syncronize the pacman repositories because they are empty and you won't be able to download anything. So, to synchronize and to make sure the system is up to date execute the following:

sudo pacman -Syyu

Reconfigure GRUB

If you are using EFI in a GPT partition and chose GRUB as the default bootloader while dual-booting with Windows, you need to recreate the GRUB config file so that the Windows loader can get recognized properly. You need to execute:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Disabling IPv6

With this basic installation, IPv6 support is enabled by default. So, if you are not using IPv6 support, the boot will take around 25 seconds longer trying to get a lease from the dhcp server, which is quite annoying. As stated in the wiki, the best way to fix this is to directly disable the IPv6 support from the kernel line. In other words, you need to edit the file /etc/default/grub and append the kernel option ipv6.disable_ipv6=1 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line. It should be something like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet ipv6.disable_ipv6=1"

Also disable the IPv6 support from the /etc/dhcpcd.conf file:

#Add
noipv6rs
noipv6

Restoring ping capabilities and permissions

After installation the ping command can only be executed as root, basically this issue. The simplest way to fix this is to install the iputils package again:

packer -S iputils

Then reboot.