maggu2810

Short Summary

mkdir -p /mnt/sdb3
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3
cd /mnt/sdb3
btrfs subvolume create archlinux
umount /mnt/sdb3

mkdir -p /mnt/archlinux
mount /dev/sdb3 -o subvol=archlinux /mnt/archlinux

tar xzf /home/maggu2810/Downloads/archlinux-bootstrap-2022.01.01-x86_64.tar.gz --numeric-owner --strip-components=1 -C /mnt/archlinux
cd /mnt/archlinux

Mirror

Uncomment one mirror:

vim etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

chroot

./bin/arch-chroot ./

Time zone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime

Localization

echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen

echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

echo "KEYMAP=de-latin1" > /etc/vconsole.conf

hostname

echo 'usblin.localdomain' > /etc/hostname

echo '127.0.0.1    usblin usblin.localdomain' >> /etc/hosts
echo '::1          usblin usblin.localdomain' >> /etc/hosts

root password

passwd

Initializing pacman keyring

pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinux

Workaround while in chroot

Use this only if really necessary (e.g. if you chroot not into a mount point)

sed 's:^CheckSpace$:#CheckSpace:g' -i /etc/pacman.conf

Update

pacman -Syu

Install stuff

pacman -S --needed btrfs-progs vim networkmanager

pacman -S --needed base linux linux-firmware

Bootup

After the bootup setup services

systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved.service
ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

systemctl enable --now systemd-networkd.service

systemctl enable --now NetworkManager.service

Notes

AUR: https://github.com/Jguer/yay