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Installing and Configuring Arch Linux

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We are going to Install Arch Linux from Scratch

Download Arch ISO from official website

Use it via VirutalBox or VMware - give around 2GB of ram & 16gb of disk space

Start the VM
#Check Internet Access
ping archlinux.org

#Set Time & Date
timedatectl set-ntp true
Creating a Partition 

#Check the partitions
fdisk -l 

#Create partition using cfdisk 
cfdisk 

#Create a partition, allocate space & select it as bootable --> Create --> exit
#you can choose to create a swap space if required to hibernate. 

#Creating File System, i choose /dev/sda2 as that's where i am looking to install the file system 
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

#Creating Swap Memory
mkswap /dev/sda1

#Mount the drives
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
swapon /dev/sda1
Installing Required Tools

pacman -Sy
pacman -S archlinux-keyring
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel linux-lts linux-firmware dhcpcd vim nano iputils netctl networkmanager grub
Adding drive UUID to fstab

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

arch-chroot /mnt
Setting up Location & Hostname

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkota /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

nano /etc/locale.gen
#uncommnet en_US

locale-gen

nano /etc/hostname 
Elric

nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	Elric.localdomain Elric

#Create symlink for dhcp service
systemctl enable dhcpcd

#Update password
passwd
Setting up Grub 

grub-install /dev/sda

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

#Incase of any error or warning: 
Ex: Os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions
Solution: 
nano/etc/default/grub
at the end of the file uncomment/add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

#save the file & run below command again; you should not see any erros now
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Reboot

#Exit from the current session
exit
umount -R /mnt 
reboot 
Login to Arch as Root/User 

#Check Internet Access
ping google.com

#incase of issues
nano /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver Gateway_IPAddress

#create a normal user
useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash Username

EDITOR=vim visudo
uncomment wheel
Setting up VM Tools

#VMWARE
pacman -S open-vm-tools 

#Virtual Box
pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils
Installing Required Tools - GUI, audio 

#here i choose xorg,xfce4 and lightdm - you can choose whatever you want- you can get the list from ArchWiki Page  

lihgtdm - Display Manager - Graphical
xfce4 - Desktop Environment

pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa xorg lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter xfce4

#when you are using a display login manager, it should be started on system start
sudo systemctl enable lightdm
Reboot and you can login to Arch via GUI 
Setting up VMWare Tools

#Login to the VM --> click on VM --> Install VMware Tools
#usually it wont mount automatically
#mount using following commands
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom

copy vmware.tar file to /tmp
tar -xvf vmware.tar

cd vmware-tools-distirb

#Create init directory
sudo bash 
for x in {0..6}; do mkdir -p /etc/init.d/rc${x}.d; done

#Run below command and Accept all defaults
vmware-install.pl

nano /etc/systemd/system/vmwaretools.service
--------

[Unit]
Description=VMWare Tools Daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop
PIDFile=/var/lock/subsys/vmware
TimeoutSec=0
RemainAfterExit=yes
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

------

#Add Vmware Tools to systemctl 
systemctl start vmwaretools.service
systemctl enable vmwaretools.service

 

 

 

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