Follow these simple steps and you'll have your right to say I use Arch, btw

1. Create a bootable Arch Linux USB drive

Note

You can use ventoy, etcher, rufus. If you're using rufus, use GPT style

2. Make sure you have UEFI mode enabled in BIOS

3. Boot through your USB

 

Setup Internet -

Note

If you're using Ethernet, skip this part & go to partionting step

Or, If you have a problem, connecting with ethernet run this cmd. Interface name could be diff, to check interface, run ip link

systemctl start dhcpcd@enp0s0

• Setup Wireless Connection

iwctl

Inside the iwctl prompt, use the device list command to list the available Wi-Fi devices

device list

Use the station <device> scan command to scan for available Wi-Fi networks

iwctl station wlan0 scan

After the scan is complete, use the station <device> get-networks command to list the available Wi-Fi networks:

iwctl station wlan0 get-networks

Connect to your network.

iwctl -P "PASSPHRASE" station wlan0 connect "NETWORKNAME"

Now, check your internet connection using

ping -c 3 google.com

Disks and Partitioning

1. List Devices

lsblk

2. Make partition using cfdisk

cfdisk

Make 3 partition, Follow this partition style

• 1G for /boot partition (1G for multiple kernel)
• 18G for swap partition. To calculate how much swap is needed, Your RAM size(eg, 16G) +2GB
• Rest size for root / partition

 

3. After making partition, Format it

run lsblk check your partition, I'll asume / at /dev/sda1, /boot at /dev/sda2, swap at /dev/sda3

• For root / Partition -

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

• For boot Partition -

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda2

• For swap Partition -

mkswap /dev/sda3

Mounting & Installing Base Packages -

1. Mount root parition

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

2. Refresh all package databases

pacman -Syy

3. Install essential packages

• Install intel-ucode for Intel based system

pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware amd-ucode sudo nano vi

Configure The System -

1. Configure the file system

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

2. Enter chroot

arch-chroot /mnt

3. Setting Timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime

Example: Region- Asia, city- kolkata

hwclock --systohc

4. Localization

nano /etc/locale.gen

Uncomment the line #en_IN.UTF-8, Set this according to your region. save and exit

5. Generate Locale

locale-gen

• Add Language to locale.conf(set acc. to your region).

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

6. Set Hostname

echo arch > /etc/hostname

nano /etc/hosts

• Add following contents & save it, use "TAB" for spacing

127.0.0.1    localhost
::1          localhost
127.0.1.1    arch.localdomain  arch

• Install and Enable Network Manager

pacman -S networkmanager
systemctl enable NetworkManager

7. Set User & Password

• set root password

passwd

• Add user (eg, ayu)

useradd -m -G wheel ayu

• Set password for the user

passwd ayu

• Enable sudo permission to the user

EDITOR=nano visudo

Uncomment the following line #%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Installing Bootloader & Configuring

pacman -S grub efibootmgr

• Create efi directory

mkdir /boot/efi

• Now mount /boot/efi to /dev/sda2

mount /dev/sda2 /boot/efi

• Install GRUB

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=ArchLinux --efi-directory=/boot/efi

• Update grub configurtion

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

Exit and reboot the sytem

exit

umount -R /mnt

reboot