System Installation

Attach ArchLinux boot key. Boot.

Set the keyboard layout.

# loadkeys be-latin1

Connect to the internet.

# iwctl
[iwd]# station wlan0 connect <network>

Escape the menu with ^D. Automatically update the time.

# timedatectl set-ntp true

Format the disk.

# fdisk -l 
# fdisk /dev/sda
: g
: n, 1, _, +1G
: t, 1, 1
: n, 2, _, +8G
: t, 2, 19
: n, 3, _, _
: w

# pvcreate /dev/sda3
# vgcreate MyGroup /dev/sda3
# lvcreate -l +100%FREE MyGroup -n MyVolume

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/MyGroup/MyVolume
# mkswap /dev/sda2
# mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1

# mount /dev/MyGroup/MyVolume /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

Enable swap.

# swapon /dev/sda2

Install the kernel. Also install keyring because keys will be needed.

# pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring
# pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

Make the mounts persistent.

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

Configure the system.

# arch-chroot /mnt
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
# hwclock --systohc
# locale-gen
# echo "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
# echo "KEYMAP=be-latin1" >> /etc/vconsole.conf
# echo "Laptop-Tibo" >> /etc/hostname

Enable hibernation.

# lsblk
# echo "8:2" > /sys/power/resume

Create initial ramdisk environment.

# pacman -S vim lvm2
# vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Change the file to match the following line:

HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 filesystems resume keyboard fsck)

# mkinitcpio -P

Generate root password.

# passwd

Configure boot manager. Also enable hibernation.

# pacman -S grub efibootmgr
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
# vim /etc/default/grub

Change the file to match the following lines:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=0

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet resume=/dev/sda2"

GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos lvm"

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

Add the default user (me).

# useradd -m -G wheel,users,input,video tdpeuter
# passwd tdpeuter

Make the system automatically log into that user.

# sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
# sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf

Contents of the file:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -f -- \\u' --noclear --autologin tdpeuter - $TERM

Install sudo.

# pacman -S sudo
# visudo

In the file that comes up, uncomment the following line: %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Install a networkmanager so you have bloody internet when you reboot (otherwise rendering your device utterly useless).

# pacman -S networkmanager

Escape fakeroot with ^D.

Finally,

# reboot