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Installing Part 1 - Before Partitioning

Note: You may find it easier to skip this, go to partitioning, do that in GParted live, and then come back and do this

  1. Get the arch image.
  2. Put it on a usb (dd or yumi (use the UEFI version of yumi if you want to install using systemd-boot / UEFI)
  3. reboot computer with usb drive in, select usb from bios / boot menu
  4. You should boot into the Arch image.
    • if your screen instead looks corrupted, reboot and hit 'e' on the boot manager screen and add "nomodeset" to the end.
      • If you don't see one, shut off the computer, mount the install drive on a different one (e.g. sudo mount /dev/sdX2 /mnt) and edit the line initrd /EFI/archiso/archiso.img in /mnt/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64.conf to initrd /EFI/archiso/archiso.img nomodeset
  5. See if your in UEFI mode by running: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars, if the directory has contents your in UEFI mode. If not, don't use systemd-boot, use grub instead.
  6. run load-keys [country e.g. us]. The default is the us, see available ones in ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/*.map.gz, you might have to change the font if some characters don't display, through etfont lat9w-16 or other font.
  7. connect to the internet, if your using ethernet, see if it's already working through ping google.com
    • if your not connected, try ip addr to see currently connected network interfaces
      • check lspci -k and dmesg to see a list of drivers, look for "Network controller", specifically the kernel module line, if you don't see it, it's not detected
    • using wifi
      • get wifi interface from above step, and then run wifi-menu -o [device name]
      • if that doesn't connect, ip link set [device name] up, scan for access points iw dev interface scan | less, connect to the wifi through wpa_supplicant, wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c <(wpa_passphrase "your_SSID" "your_key"), remove -B to check to make sure it connects, as that sends the process to the background. Then start the dhcp service on the interface to get a ip address, systemctl restart dhcpcd.service
      • Check here for more help.
  8. Partitioning time, go to 2 - LVM if your using Logical Volume manager, or 2 - Standard for normal partitioning