Getting Started with Arch Linux 03 - Finishing the Installation

Overview

In the third video of the Arch Linux series, we wrap up the installation.

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Commands Used in this Video

List mounted devices

mount |grep sda

Generate the fstab file

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

Show the contents of the /etc/fstab file

cat /mnt/etc/fstab

Activate chroot environment

arch-chroot /mnt

Install additional required packages

pacman -S base-devel grub efibootmgr dosfstools os-prober mtools linux-headers network-manager-applet networkmanager wireless_tools wpa_supplicant dialog

Optional packages:

openssh linux-lts linux-lts-headers

Edit the locale file

nano /etc/locale.gen

Uncomment your locale (en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in my case, uncomment whichever one matches your locale

Generate the locale

locale-gen

Optional: Enable OpenSSH (if you intend on using it)

systemctl enable sshd

Make EFI boot directory

mkdir /boot/EFI

Mount boot partition

mount /dev/sda /boot/EFI

Install the Grub bootloader

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub-uefi --recheck

Copy grub.mo file

cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo

Build Grub configuration

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

Set up swap

fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | tee -a /etc/fstab

Check fstab file so far

cat /etc/fstab

Unmount filesystems

umount -a

Reboot the machine

reboot