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This guide is a convenient combination ofOffical Arch Linux Installation Guide andErmanno's amazing guide.
Important: This is an installation with the latest & greatest tools available (2021). For more robust installation (Xorg, Swap partition, etc.), please refer to my robustArch linux installation guide.
1-11 steps
12 step
Minimal Desktop GUI with native Wayland support installation:
- sway (Window manager)
- ly (Login manager)
- firefox-developer-edition (Mozilla Firefox browser)
- wofi (App Launcher)
- lxappearance (Theme customization for apps with GTK+ frontend)
- qt5ct (Theme customization for apps with Qt frontend)
- python-pywal (Theme color generator)
- waybar (Status bar)
- pcmanfm-qt (File manager)
- pass (Password manager)
- foot (Terminal emulator)
- neofetch (CLI to display system specs)
- dunst (System notifications manager)
- timeshift (System backup & restore tool)
- xorg-xwayland (Compatibility layer between Xorg and Wayland)
- qt5-wayland (Compatibility layer between Qt and Wayland)
- swayidle (Idle manager)
- swaylock-effects (Screenlock)
Boot from USB drive with Arch ISO
Prepare the disk (partitions) - using GPT device
# check the diskslsblk# partition the disk - create GPT Labelsgdisk /dev/***# choose new GPT Label command:o# First Partition for EFI# choose new command:n# choose default partition number# choose default First Sector memory# choose Last Sector memory:+550M# enter the EFI partition code:ef00# Second Partition for main SSD storage# choose new commandn# choose default partition number# choose default First Sector memory# choose Last Sector memory:(remaining SSD space - 2 GB)G# choose default partition type (Linux Filesystem)# Choose "write" command to overwrite exiting partitions:w
- Format partitions
# make fat32 filesystem for EFImkfs.vfat /dev/***1# make butterFS filesystem for main storagemkfs.btrfs /dev/***2
- ButterFS configuration
# mount main partition - root subvolumemount /dev/***2 /mntcd /mnt# make btrFS subvolume for root subvolumebtrfs subvolume create @# make btrFS subvolume for home subvolumebtrfs subvolume create @home# make btrFS subvolume for var subvolumebtrfs subvolume create @varcd# unmount main partition - root subvolumeumount /mnt# mount root subvolumemount -o noatime, compress=zstd, space_cache,discard=async,subvol=@ /dev/***2 /mnt# directories var, home & varmkdir -p /mnt/boot/efimkdir /mnt/{home,var}# mount home & var subvolumesmount -o noatime, compress=zstd, space_cache,discard=async,subvol=@home /dev/***2 /mnt/homemount -o noatime, compress=zstd, space_cache,discard=async,subvol=@var /dev/***2 /mnt/var
- Mount EFI partition
mount /dev/***1 /mnt/boot/efi- Install the base system
# for amd processor: amd-ucode instead of intel-ucodepacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware git vim intel-ucode btrfs-progs- Generate filesystem table
genfstab -U /mnt>> /mnt/etc/fstab- Make new root directory with all mounts needed
# detach from main filesystem and process treearch-chroot /mnt# check the fs & tablelscat /etc/fstab
- Run base archlinux system intall script
# give exec permissions to scriptgit clone https://github.com/arcbjorn/arc-arch-linux-installation-guidecd arc-arch-linux-installation-guide# don't forget to change username & password to yours :)chmod +x base.sh# run from root filesystemcd /./arc-arch-linux-installation-guide/base.sh# choose xdr-desktop-portal-wlr (to use with Sway)
- Check system init config
vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf# if butterFS used on 2 disks - put "btrfs" parameter in MODULES# if amd or nvidia card is used - put "amdgpu" or "nvidia" parameters in MODULES accordingly# if config was changed, recreate initramfs:mkinitcpio -p linux
- Finish base packages installation
exitumount -areboot- Install Desktop GUI & tools
# copy the guide from root filesystem to home repositorycp -r /arc-arch-linux-installation-guide.cd /arc-arch-linux-installation-guide# give exec permissions to scriptchmod +x sway.sh# go back to home directorycd .../arc-arch-linux-installation-guide/sway.sh
- Configure ZRAM (used for SWAP)
paru -S zramdsudo systemctlenable --now zramd.service# check the block devices tablelsblkreboot
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