Daniel's guide to installing Arch Linux

Initial steps

First set the font and keyboard layout

Using WiFi (optional)

If you are setting up arch on WiFi you will need to connect to a WiFi network using the iwctl command

Now you need to find your WiFi network

And then connect to it

Important

Activating NTP

It is important to activate automatic network time synchronization otherwise later steps will not work

Partitioning disks

First you need to find your disk depending on what type of disk it is it might have a different name

Now you know what the disk is named so now you can begin partitioning if prompted about label type choose gpt

Now you need to create two or three partitions one that is 500M EFI system, a linux filesystem that will be your main storage and optionally you can make a linux swap partition

Now you can move onto the next step in the partitioning remember each partition has a name that is important to remember write the changes to your disk and exit the menu

The last step of the partitioning is mounting the partition temporarily at /mnt and activating the swapfile if you made one

Downloading mirrors

Now you will need to download your mirrors

Installing system

In this step you will be installing the arch system on the disk

Configuring system

First you will configure the timezone first find the right timezone and the set it using the second command

In this step you will be configuring the language of the system go to the following file and uncomment the languages you want

Now you will configure the keyboard layout go to the file below and add KEYMAP=dk

Then you need to configure network settings go to the file below and add 127.0.1.1 [COMPUTER NAME]

Adding users

first add a root password

Then add a user if you don't want them to have root permissions then don't include wheel

Now give wheel users permission to use sudo by going to the file below and uncommenting %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Installing microcode

Make sure you install the right microcode depending on the cpu you have

Installing grub as a bootmanager

First install grub

If you are dual booting operating systems make sure to follow this step (optional)

Now setup grub

If you are dual booting operating systems you will also have to activate os prober that you downloaded earlier by going to the file below and uncommenting GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Now the final step of the grub setup

Installing xorg as the windows manager

Simply install xorg using pacman

Installing KDE plasma as the desktop

Depending on how big of a package you want you can install plasma desktop for a more minimal version or plasma meta to have more features from the start

Finalization

now for the final steps of the setup