Setting up Arch is more tricky. On the other when you have done, it gives you more knowledge about how Linux is setup. Get Arch from here. After you will have to write it to a USB stick to make it bootable. I prefer to use DD (zie Debian). Boot your USB stick and start installation.
To find out about your partition info use # lsblk. You will find some like /dev/sd*. * can be A B C D. To partion use cmd # sudo fdisk /dev/sd*. on the terminal you see ome up a line # command(m for help):. use the letter n to make new partitions and later the letter t to set the type of partitions. If for example drive is /dev/sda then you partition to 4 partitions like /dev/sda1 = efi/boot, /dev/sda2 = swap, /dev/sda3 = root, /dev/sda4 = home. When partions are set, use the leter w to write the setup in fdisk.
| Quit fdisk and format the partitions with, |
| # mkfs.ext4 /dev/root_partition (/dev/sda3) |
| # mkfs.ext4 /dev/home_partition (/dev/sda4) |
| # mkswap /dev/SWAP_partition (/dev/sda2) |
| # mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/efi_partition (/dev/sda1) |
| Mount the formated partitions with, |
| # mount /dev/root_partition /mnt |
| # mount --mkdir /dev/home_partition /mnt/home |
| # mount --mkdir /dev/efi_partition /mnt/boot |
| # swapon /dev/swap_partition |
Use this cmd to istall some baic of linux, a editor and net-tools,
# # pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware nano sudo networkmanager net-tools
Use this cmd to generate file fstab
# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
| change apparant root dir >> | # arch-chroot /mnt |
| set time zone to your location >> | # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime |
| set hardware clock >> | # hwclock --systohc |
| LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> | # nano /etc/locale.gen |
| set hostname of device >> | # nano /etc/hostname |
| generate locales >> | # locale-gen |
| create initial ramdisk >> | # mkinitcpio -P |
| Install bootloader GRUB |
| # pacman -S grub os-prober efibootmgr |
| # grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --efi-directory=/boot/ |
| # grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
| set password for root >> | # passwd |
| create local user |
| uncomment wheel >> | # EDITOR=nano visudo |
| add a user >> | # useradd -m rvd |
| set passwd user >> | # passwd rvd |
| add group to user >> | # usermod -aG wheel rvd |
| set ahell to bash | # chsh --shell /bin/bash rvd |
# exit or ctrl-d
# umount -R /mnt
# reboot