Basic System:

Boot into the installer and establish network access, loadkeys adn ntp

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dhcpd eth0
loadkeys fi
timedatectl set-ntp true

Partition the drive with parted

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parted /dev/sda
mklabel msdos
mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 1GiB
mkpart primary ext4 1GiB 100GiB
mkpart primary linux-swap 100GiB 100%

Format the partitions with mkfs.ext4

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mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

If using swap, use mkswap and swapon to format and enable the swap paritions

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mkswap /dev/sda3
swapon /dev/sda3

Mount the root partion to /mnt

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mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

Create mount points under /mnt and mount partitions as necessary.

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mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

Select mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Start the install process

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pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel sudo vim curl rsync openssh git ifplugd ntp reflector

Generate an fstab

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

Chroot in

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arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Set the hostname in /etc/hostname

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echo hostname > /etc/hostname

Symlink the correct timezone, Set the hardware clock to store UTC time

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tzselect
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone/subzone /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc

Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen, run locale-gen and create /etc/locale.conf with content LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Set keyboard layout in /etc/vconsole.conf

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KEYMAP=fi-latin1
FONT=lat9w-16

Write netctl profiles in /etc/netctl and enable netctl-ifplugd@interface and netctl-auto@interface services as appropriate

`1`	`systemctl enable [email protected]`

Enable the ntpd service 1. Set the root password with passwd

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timedatectl
passwd

Install a boot loader.

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pacman -S grub os-prober
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Exit the chroot and recursively unmount the partitions. Reboot into the new install

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exit or pressing Ctrl+D
umount -R /mnt
reboot

Create a personal account

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useradd -m -s /bin/bash -g users -G wheel myusername and passwd username

Set up sudo with visudo
Log into the personal account and set up the home folder
Generate a mirrorlist with reflector

##Desktop or Laptop

Install sounds:

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pacman -S alsa-utils

Install GUI packages:

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pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit

Install a video driver:

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pacman -S xf86-video-intel, xf86-video-nouveau, nvidia, or xf86-video-ati

Install Display manager (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_manager) and Desktop Enviroment (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_environment)
Configure Xorg

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Xorg :0 -configure

Install user packages:

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pacman -S chromium conky docky gedit gparted mixxx remmina terminator terminus-font unrar unzip wireshark-gtk steam nmap deluge nemo tmux gimp libreoffice-still-fi mumble vim python vlc xterm darktable teampspeak3 shutter thunderbird midori

My own Arch Linux install

Guide to install base Arch Linux and More!

Basic System: