Arch base install

Set Keyboard layout to Swiss douring installation

loadkeys de_CH-latin1

Connect to Wlan

iwctl
station wlan0 connect <wifiname>
#check connection
station list

Syncroneze Time

timedatectl set-ntp true

Set best Mirrorlist for location

# Sync Pacman
pacman -Syyy

# Install reflector for setting mirrorlist
pacman -S reflector

# Set Mirrorlist
reflector -c Switzerland -a 6 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirorlist

Formatting Harddrive with fdisk

fdisk /dev/nvme0n1

g - create gpt partition for uefi bios

n - create new uefi partition with +500M and type 1.

n - create a root partition with all remaining disk space.

Make a file system for each partition

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2

Mounting partitions

mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

Start installing base system with the following command and packages

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware nano

Generate fstab for the partitions using the -U for UUID of partitions

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

Change Installation directory (on drive)

arch-chroot /mnt

Create a swap-file

fallocate -l 2GB /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

Add swapfile to fstab

# Edit `fstab`
nano /etc/fstab
# Insert at the end
/swapfile none  swap  defaults  0 0

Create a Symlink for timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich /etc/localetime

Synchronize Hardware-Clock

hwclock --systohc

Edit and generate locales

# Edit locale.gen
nano /etc/lolace.gen
# Uncomment, save and exit
en_US.UTF-8

# Generate the locale
locale-gen

Set locale

# Edit file
nano /etc/locale.conf
# Insert, save and exit
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Set Keyboard layout to Swiss for persistance.

# Edit
/etc/vconsole.conf
# Insert and save file
KEYMAP=de_CH-latin1

Set Hostname

nano /etc/hostname
# Set Hostname, save and exit
x2100

Set Hosts

nano /etc/hosts
# Set hosts, save and exit
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost
127.0.1.1   x2100.localdomain   x2100

Set root password

passwd

Install remaining base packages

pacman -S grub efibootmgr networkmanager network-manager-applet dialog wireless_tools wpa_supplicant os-prober base-devel linux-headers reflector bluez bluez-utils git cups xdg-utils xdg-user-dirs

Install grub-bootloader

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
# Create grub bootloader config
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Enable Services on boot

systemctl enable NetworkManager
systemctl enable bluetooth
systemctl enable cups.service

Create User

useradd -mG wheel fr
passwd fr

Add user to sudoers

EDITOR=nano visudo
# Uncomment
%whell ALL=(ALL) ALL

Exit, Unmount and reboot system

exit
umount -a
reboot

After reboot, login into system and connect to wifi

nmtui

install intel grafics driver

sudo pacman -S xf86-vido-intel

Install Displayserver

sudo pacman -S xorg

Install DE (gnome)

sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-tweaks

Enable gdm login screen manager

sudo systemctl enable gdm

Install and enable on boot intel-ucode Intel Microcode

sudo pacman -S intel-ucode
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Congrats, you have managed to Install sucessfully Arch with Gnome!