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Installation on Dell XPS 9570
Connect to Internet
Sync clock
timedatectl set-ntp true
Create three partitions:
1 512MB EFI partition # Hex code ef00
2 rest Linux partiton # Hex code 8300
cgdisk /dev/nvme0n1
Format EFI partition
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n BOOT /dev/nvme0n1p1
o=compress=lzo,space_cache,noatime,ssd o_btrfs=$o,defaults,x-mount.mkdir
mount -t btrfs /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
Create BTRFS subvolumes + mount directories
btrfs subvolume create root btrfs subvolume create home btrfs subvolume create snapshots btrfs subvolume create tmp btrfs subvolume create opt btrfs subvolume create var
umount /mnt
Mount BTRFS subvolumes
mount -o subvol=root,$o_btrfs /dev/mapper/root /mnt mount -o subvol=home,$o_btrfs /dev/mapper/root /mnt/home mount -o subvol=snapshots,$o_btrfs /dev/mapper/root /mnt/.snapshots mount -o subvol=tmp,$o_btrfs /dev/mapper/root /mnt/tmp mount -o subvol=opt,$o_btrfs /dev/mapper/root /mnt/opt mount -o subvol=var,$o_btrfs /dev/mapper/root /mnt/var
Mount EFI partition
mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
Install the base system plus a few packages
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel btrfs-progs zsh neovim git sudo iwd
genfstab -Up /mnt >>/mnt/etc/fstab
Verify and adjust /mnt/etc/fstab
Change relatime on all non-boot partitions to noatime (reduces wear if using an SSD)
arch-chroot /mnt
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen locale-gen localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Setup time
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Newyork etc/localtime hwclock --systohc --localtime
Set locale
echo 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8' > /etc/locale.conf
set hostname
echo xcloud >/etc/hostname echo '127.0.0.1 xcloud xcloud.localdomain' > /etc/hosts echo '::1 xcloud xcloud.localdomain' > /etc/hosts
Set password for root
passwd
Add real group / user
groupadd -g 1001 useradd -m -g '' -G users,wheel,audio,video -s /bin/zsh '' passwd '' echo ' ALL=(ALL) ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/
Configure mkinitcpio with modules needed for the initrd image
vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
remove HOOK "fsck", add "keymap encrypt" before "filesystems":
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block btrfs keymap encrypt filesystems keyboard"
Regenerate initrd image
mkinitcpio -p linux
Setup systemd-boot
bootctl --path=/boot install
Enable Intel microcode updates
pacman -S intel-ucode
/boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title Arch Linux Encrypted linux /vmlinuz-linux initrd /intel-ucode.img initrd /initramfs-linux.img options cryptdevice=UUID=:root root=UUID= rootflags=subvol=@ rw
Set default bootloader entry
/boot/loader/loader.conf
default arch timeout 4 editor 0
Useful services
pacman -S acpid ntp avahi cups cronie
systemctl enable acpid systemctl enable ntpd systemctl enable avahi-daemon systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service systemctl enable cronie
systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service
pacman -S networkmanager pacman -S network-manager-applet
systemctl enable NetworkManager
pacman -S bash-completion
vi /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
content:
blacklist psmouse
X11 / Gnome
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit pacman -S xf86-video-intel pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-tools pulseaudio pavucontrol nm-connection-editor pacman -S gnome gnome-extra gdm pacman -S chromium emacs openssh
exit arch-chroot
exit
cleanup EFI-bootmanager entries
efibootmgr efibootmgr -b 0 -B # e.g. remove Boot0000
unmount all filesystems
umount -R /mnt reboot
Yaourt
Installation from AUR
install package-query first:
curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/package-query.tar.gz tar -xvzf package-query.tar.gz cd package-query makepkg -si
then yaourt itself:
cd .. curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/yaourt.tar.gz tar -xvzf yaourt.tar.gz cd yaourt makepkg -si
systemctl start gdm