Arch install process - UEFI
I was sure I wrote this stuff down the first time I fumbled through an arch uefi install. Guess not. Since this is going to be the process I use in whatever new laptop I end up getting, I thought I'd best record it as I go.
A few differences from previous arch self-guide. I'm not doing the partitioning from a gui in a live CD, I'm just using the archlive installation usb to run cli programs like gdisk. I'm also not using LVM - I'll need to look at how that works with UEFI and stuff going forward. I'm using a 128G SSD, so don't need / can't have loads of other OSs. Anyway, let's go.
Clear disk, create partitions and filesystems
Boot into the latest arch iso then run gdisk on the disk you want to use (sda here):
gdisk /dev/sda
Clear the existing partition table:
O
Create a new EFI System partition
n
1
[return]
+512M
ef00
Create swap partition:
n
2
[return]
+2G
8200
Create a partition on the rest of the disk for the OS and storage
n
3
[return]
[return]
[return]
Write the changes to disk
w
[confirm Y]
quit gdisk and use the following command to create the filesystem for the EFI partition
blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sda[x]
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
mkswap /dev/sad2
swapon /dev/sda2
loadkeys uk
timedatectl set-ntp true
OK, now I followed the instructions in the List by speed section of the aw mirrors page, but didn't really think it through our follow the instructions to the end. So when it completed I'll probably have the 6 fastest mirrors but they may be out of date. This is something to look at after the installation is finished. Maybe I should use a script to keep the mirrors up to date?
Seems OK. Now I'll proceed with the installation
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
echo archasus > /etc/hostname
Why does the beginners guide differ in certain respects? Flag -U on genfstab?
tzselect and get the zone info
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
Edit /etc/locale.gen to uuncomment en_GB.UTF-8
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
Edit /etc/vconsole.conf to say
KEYMAP=UK (I don't know if this is right)
The installation guide says to configure the network at this point but I think it's already fine. Pings are OK anyway.
mkinitcpio -p Linux
passed
Jump back to beginners guide.
bootctl install
Do the config file bit, exactly as indicated. Then follow on from that point to the network config part of the beginners guide
pacman -S iw wpa-supplicant dialog
exit chroot, umount -R, reboot
Won't boot. Sigh.
A few differences from previous arch self-guide. I'm not doing the partitioning from a gui in a live CD, I'm just using the archlive installation usb to run cli programs like gdisk. I'm also not using LVM - I'll need to look at how that works with UEFI and stuff going forward. I'm using a 128G SSD, so don't need / can't have loads of other OSs. Anyway, let's go.
Clear disk, create partitions and filesystems
Boot into the latest arch iso then run gdisk on the disk you want to use (sda here):
gdisk /dev/sda
Clear the existing partition table:
O
Create a new EFI System partition
n
1
[return]
+512M
ef00
Create swap partition:
n
2
[return]
+2G
8200
Create a partition on the rest of the disk for the OS and storage
n
3
[return]
[return]
[return]
Write the changes to disk
w
[confirm Y]
quit gdisk and use the following command to create the filesystem for the EFI partition
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sda[x]
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
mkswap /dev/sad2
swapon /dev/sda2
loadkeys uk
timedatectl set-ntp true
OK, now I followed the instructions in the List by speed section of the aw mirrors page, but didn't really think it through our follow the instructions to the end. So when it completed I'll probably have the 6 fastest mirrors but they may be out of date. This is something to look at after the installation is finished. Maybe I should use a script to keep the mirrors up to date?
Seems OK. Now I'll proceed with the installation
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
echo archasus > /etc/hostname
Why does the beginners guide differ in certain respects? Flag -U on genfstab?
tzselect and get the zone info
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
Edit /etc/locale.gen to uuncomment en_GB.UTF-8
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
Edit /etc/vconsole.conf to say
KEYMAP=UK (I don't know if this is right)
The installation guide says to configure the network at this point but I think it's already fine. Pings are OK anyway.
mkinitcpio -p Linux
passed
Jump back to beginners guide.
bootctl install
Do the config file bit, exactly as indicated. Then follow on from that point to the network config part of the beginners guide
pacman -S iw wpa-supplicant dialog
exit chroot, umount -R, reboot
Won't boot. Sigh.
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