Arch LInux Installation guide for Virtual Machine
A simple Arch Linux installation guide.
You should always know what type of hardware your system is running ahead of time before installing any Linux distro (CPU, motherboard, RAM, disk drives, etc...). Please leave a comment, share or like. Ask questions and I'll do my best to answer it.
-- Here is a list of commands I've executed in order.
01-ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
02-localectl
03-ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com
04-timedatectl set-ntp true
05-timedatectl status
06-lsblk
07-cfdisk /dev/sda
07a- Select GPT
07b- Create two partitions; one Linux Filesystem and the other Linux Swap Parition then exit.
08-lsblk /dev/sda
09-mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
10-mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
11-mkswap /dev/sda2
12-swapon /dev/sda2
13-pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
13b-Or type: pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
14-genfstab /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
15-arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
16-nano /etc/locale.gen
16a-Look for your language and delete the hashtag in front of the line, arrow keys and page keys.
16b-Hit ctrl-o to save and enter.
16c-Hit ctrl-x to exit.
17-local-gen
18-tzselect
18a-Select your current Country and time zone.
19-ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime
20-hwclock --systohc --utc
21-mkinitcpio -p linux
22-pacman -S grub-bios
23-grub-install /dev/sda
23a-Else type:grub-instal --force /dev/sda
24-grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
25-grub-mkconfig -0 /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
26-echo vbox > /etc/hostname
27-passwd
27a-Create any password you want.
28-reboot
Get network connection
29-cd /sys/class/net/
30-dhcpcd :device name: