Mar 13, 2017 - In this article, I'll guide you to step by step Arch Linux installation. You must select your installation source, in this tutorial, I use a live USB: . Step 2: Create a live USB of Arch Linux. We will have to create a live USB of Arch Linux from the ISO you just downloaded. If you are on Linux, you can use dd command to create a live USB. Replace /path/to/archlinux.iso with the path where you have downloaded ISO file, and /dev/sdx with your drive in the example below. (Redirected from Installation Guide) Jump to: navigation, search This document is a guide for installing Arch Linux from the live system booted with the official installation image. The Arch Linux proved no GUI for installation so the only option for you to install Arch Linux is to command line, which makes the job of installing the Arch bit difficult. But don’t worry in the following step by step guide on how to install Arch Linux I will make your job of installing arch Linux a breeze. In both cases, you need an Arch Linux image (.iso) file. You can go to the official website of Arch Linux at and download it for free. You can download the iso image directly using HTTP or using Torrent. In some case, torrent downloads may be faster. Downloading the iso image from Torrent: First go to the official downloads page of Arch Linux at and click on the link (Magnet Link) as marked in the screenshot below. Arch Linux torrent download should start if you have a torrent client installed. Download the iso Image Directly from HTTP Go to the official downloads page of Arch Linux at and scroll down to HTTP Direct Downloads section. Click on any one of the links. It is better to choose one that is near your location for faster download speeds. You should see something like this. Now click on the file that ends with.iso and your download should start. Once the download is complete, you can write the file to a CD/DVD or use a software like Rufus () on Windows to make a bootable USB out of it. If you’re on Linux, you may run the following command to make a bootable USB stick as well. $ sudo dd if= /path /to /archlinux.iso of=USB_DEVICE bs=1M USB_DEVICE is usually /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or something like that. You can run lsblk command the to find out what to put in as USB_DEVICE. Booting Arch Linux Once you make a bootable CD/DVD or a USB stick of Arch Linux, insert it and select the bootable media from your computers BIOS. You should see the following window as shown in the screenshot below. Now select the first option, Boot Arch Linux (x86_64) and press. Arch Linux should boot as you can see in the screenshot below. After a few seconds, you should see the following window. This is the Arch Linux console. From here you install Arch Linux and you need some Linux experience to do so. Don’t worry if you don’t know much about Linux, I will guide you through it. Configuring the Network The first thing you should do is to check whether you have internet connectivity or not. Because Arch Linux pulls all the packages from the internet when you install it on your computer’s hard drive. You can run the following command to verify whether you’re connected to the internet or not. $ cfdisk /dev /sda It says I don’t have a partition table. You may create a gpt or dos partition table. If you go with dos partition table, then a root (/) partition and a swap partition is enough. If you create gpt partition table, you will need an extra small partition (about 512MB) for the /boot directory. I will go with dos partition table. Now you should see the following window. Press to create a new partition. Type in the partition size and then press. This should be the root(/) partition. Magellan triton free topo maps. Select [ primary ] and press. The partition should be created. Now create another primary partition and change its Type to Linux swap / Solaris. A good enough swap partition size is the same as your RAM size. But if you have a lot of RAM, you may make swap partition size small as it shouldn’t be used if enough RAM is available. If swap partition is used frequently, you may need to upgrade your computer’s RAM. Now select the root (/) partition and press several times to navigate to [ Bootable ] and press. It should have the bootable flag set. Finally, it should look something like this. Now press a few times to navigate to [ Write ] and press. Now type in yes and press again. The changes should be written to the disk. Now go to [ Quit ] and press. You should be back to the console. Now it’s time to format the partitions. Run the following command to format the root (/) partitio.
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