# Arch-Linux-Installation

### Check if your Wireless Lan Interface is working
    ip link

### Connect to your Wifi-Network and check connection to the Internet

    wpa_passphrase <passphrase> | wpa_supplicant -B -i <SSID> -c /dev/stdin
    dhcpcd 
    ping -c 3 www.google.com
 
### Format root and home partitions using
    mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdxX

### Format/Enable SWAP
    mkswap /dev/sdaZ
    swapon /dev/sdaZ

### Check partitions with this command
lsblk /dev/sdx
 
### Mount root and home partitions
mount /dev/sdxX /mnt
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sdxY /mnt/home
 
### Choose download mirror (optional)
nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
 
### Install base packages
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
 
### Configure fstab (run only once!) and verify it
genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
nano /mnt/etc/fstab
 
### Change to your root directory
arch-chroot /mnt
 
### Language and Time Zone settings (find and un-comment)
nano /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 
ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/<zone>/ /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc
 
### Set hostname
echo  > /etc/hostname
 
### Create users (create admin psswd)
### useradd -m -g [initial_group] -G [additional_groups] -s [login_shell] [username]
useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/bash 
passwd <username>
passwd
 
### Install sudo / add user to the admin-group
pacman -S sudo bash-completion
EDITOR=nano visudo
### and un-comment: 
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
 
 
### Enable multilib repositories: find and un-comment both lines
nano /etc/pacman.conf
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
### Add Yaourt repository (same file pacman.conf)
[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
### and install yaourt
pacman -Sy yaourt customizepkg rsync
 
### Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)
pacman -S alsa-utils pulseaudio alsa-oss alsa-lib
amixer sset Master unmute
### to test sound
speaker-test -c 2
 
### Install Boot-loader (grub)
pacman -S grub
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sdx
pacman -S os-prober
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
 
### Enable ethernet interface service at boot (find interface with ip link)
systemctl enable dhcpcd@.service