7. PARTITIONING THE DISK
• Download and burn any partitioning tool on a CD.
• Insert the CD into your Optical drive and boot from the CD.
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9. PARTITIONING THE DISK
• Download and burn any partitioning tool on a CD.
• Insert the CD into your Optical drive and boot from the CD.
• Create a partition table.
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11. PARTITIONING THE DISK
• Download and burn any partitioning tool on a CD.
• Insert the CD into your Optical drive and boot from the CD.
• Create a partition table.
• Create a extended partition.
12. PARTITIONING THE DISK
• Download and burn any partitioning tool on a CD.
• Insert the CD into your Optical drive and boot from the CD.
• Create a partition table.
• Create a extended partition.
• On the extended partition create swap, root, and home
partitions.
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18. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• Download Arch Linux .iso file and burn it on a CD or USB drive.
• Insert your Arch Linux CD or USB into your Optical Drive.
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20. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• Download Arch Linux .iso file and burn it on a CD or USB drive.
• Insert your Arch Linux CD or USB into your Optical Drive.
• Choose the appropriate option for your system, if your running
32-bit choose x86, if your running 64-bit choose x64.
21. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• Download Arch Linux .iso file and burn it on a CD or USB drive.
• Insert your Arch Linux CD or USB drive.
• Choose the appropriate option for your system, if your running
32-bit choose x86, if your running 64-bit choose x64.
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23. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• Download Arch Linux .iso file and burn it on a CD or USB drive.
• Insert your Arch Linux CD or USB drive.
• Choose the appropriate option for your system, if your running
32-bit choose x86, if your running 64-bit choose x64.
• Mount the root and home partitions using the command, mount
/name of the partition /where you want to be
mounted.
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26. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• Download Arch Linux .iso file and burn it on a CD or USB drive.
• Insert your Arch Linux CD or USB drive.
• Choose the appropriate option for your system, if your running
32-bit choose x86, if your running 64-bit choose x64.
• Mount the root and home partitions using the command, mount
/name of the partition /where you want to be
mounted.
• Install the base packages using the command, pacstrap /mnt
base base-devel
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28. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• After the base package is already installed, you just have to do
some configurations in the system. These are:
• Generate an fstab file, this defines how disk partitions, various
other block devices, or remote file systems should be mounted
into the file system. The command for this is # genfstab -p
/mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab.
• Change root into the new system using the command # arch-
chroot /mnt.
29. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• Set the hostname using the command # echo computer_name
> /etc/hostname.
• Set the time zone using the command # ln -sf
/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone/subzone /etc/localtime.
• Uncomment the needed locales in /etc/locale.gen, then
generate them with the command # locale-gen.
30. INSTALLING ARCH LINUX
• Set locale preferences in /etc/locale.conf and possibly
$HOME/.config/locale.conf using the command # echo
LANG=your_locale > /etc/locale.conf.
• Configure /etc/mkinitcpio.conf if additional features are
needed using the command # mkinitcpio -p linux.
• And lastly you can set the root password using the command #
passwd.