Download Archlinux latest torrent from https://www.archlinux.org/

Copy the image to your sd card or USB key. Or burn on cd/dvd

Insert media into device you want Archlinux to be installed

Configure device to boot from media (BIOS setup or Boot menu)

Archlinux will start with root prompt

Ping to check internet connection # ping -c 3 google.com &

Check disks, decide where you want to install Arch # lsblk

Open cgdisk or cfdisk to create partitions

# cgdisk /dev/<sdX> or # cfdisk /dev/<sdX>

Create root (/), a home (/home) and swap mountpoints. Create filesystem on partitions, repeat for every partition, except swap

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/<sdX(n)>

Enable and activate swap # mkswap /dev/<sdX(n)> # swapon /dev/<sdX(n)>

Check filesystems # lsblk /dev/<sdX>

Install base system and respect sequence in mounting. First mount root then boot and then other mountpoints Root partition: # mount /dev/<sdX(n)> /mnt

Boot partition: # mkdir -p /mnt/boot && mount /dev/<sdX(n)> /mnt/boot

Home partition: # mkdir -p /mnt/home && mount /dev/<sdX(n)> /mnt/home

Choose mirror. Place nearest location at top of mirrorlist # nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Install base packages # pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

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

Become chroot # arch-chroot /mnt

# nano /etc/locale.gen

# locale-gen

# echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf

# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam > /etc/localtime

# hwclock --systohc --utc

# echo <myhostname> > /etc/hostname

# nano /etc/pacman.conf Uncomment `[multilib]`in pacman.conf if your system is 64 bit, and it likely will be these days..

# pacman -Sy

# passwd

# mkinitcpio -p linux

# pacman -S bash-completion

# pacman -S grub

# grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/<sdX>

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

# pacman -S os-prober

# exit

# umount -R /mnt

# reboot

# ip a

*Find card identifier (= <aliasnetwork>) with ip link *

Enable network on boot # systemctl enable dhcpcd@<aliasnetwork>.service

Enable network from now # systemctl start dhcpcd@<aliasnetwork>.service

Repeat the command as often as users you want to create. # useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/bash <username>

pacman -S openssh

# pacman -S sudo # EDITOR=nano visudo -Uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit

# pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev xf86-video-vesa

# pacman -S mesa

# pacman -S nvidia lib32-nvidia-utils

# pacman -S xf86-video-sis (AUR) xf86-video-sisimedia (AUR) xf86-video-sisusb sisctrl (GUI tool setting video modes)

If laptop install touch-pad drivers # pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

Install openbox environment, before installing wm # pacman -S openbox conky firefox terminator

Copy openbox config dir to .config directory $ mkdir /home/<user>/.config # cp -av /etc/X11/xdg/openbox /home/<user>/.config/

$ startx

Install audio support (optional if you need audio) # pacman -S alsa-utils pulseaudio pavucontrol

Copy system xinitrc to user home dir and edit: # cp -av /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc /home/<user>/.xinitrc

Now uncomment xterm lines and add exec openbox-session at the end # echo "exec openbox-session" >> ~/.xinitrc

# mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]

# nano /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/override.conf

Add the lines [Service]

ExecStart=

ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty --autologin <username> --noclear %I 38400 linux

$ nano ~/.bash_profile

[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx