Installation guide for Arch Linux (terminal installation method) on EFI system.

Edit Pacman Configuration FIle⌗ 

nano /etc/pacman.conf

System Clock⌗ 

timedatectl set-ntp true

Disk Partition⌗

List Disk⌗ 

lsblk

Partitioning⌗ 

cfdisk

Format Partition⌗ 

mkfs.vfat /dev/boot-partition
mkfs.ext4 /dev/root-partition
mkswap /dev/swap-partition

Activate Swap Partition (If You Have One)⌗ 

swapon /dev/swap-partition

Mount Partition⌗ 

mount /dev/root-partition /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/boot-partition /mnt/boot

Install Base System⌗ 

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware git vim sudo wget archlinux-keyring htop neofetch pacman-contrib networkmanager

Generate fstab⌗ 

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

Install & Configure Bootloader⌗

Installing Bootloader & Get Block ID⌗ 

bootctl install --esp-path=/mnt/boot
PARTID=$(blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/root-partition)

Configure loader.conf⌗ 

cat <<EOF > /mnt/boot/loader/loader.conf
default arch
timeout 4
EOF

Configure Entries Directory⌗ 

cat <<EOF > /mnt/boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=PARTUUID=$PARTID rw 
EOF

Edit Newly Installed System’s Pacman Configuration⌗ 

cp /etc/pacman.conf /mnt/etc/pacman.conf

Chroot Into Newly Installed System⌗ 

arch-chroot /mnt

Time Zone⌗ 

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Singapore /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

Localisation⌗ 

sed -i 's/^#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen

Create /etc/locale.conf⌗ 

cat <<EOF > /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
EOF

Hostname⌗ 

echo YOUR_HOSTNAME > /etc/hostname
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" >> /etc/hosts
echo "::1       localhost" >> /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.1.1 YOUR_HOSTNAME.localdomain YOUR_HOSTNAME" >> /etc/hosts

Root Password (Optional)⌗ 

passwd

Add User⌗ 

useradd -m USERNAME
passwd USERNAME
usermod -aG wheel,audio,storage,video,optical USERNAME

Edit Sudoers File⌗ 

sed -i 's/^%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/' /etc/sudoers
sed -i 's/^%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/# %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/' /etc/sudoers
sed -i 's/^# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/' /etc/sudoers
sed -i 's/^# %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL/%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL/' /etc/sudoers

Post Configuration (Optional)⌗ 

pacman -S dhcpcd dhcp firefox chromium
systemctl enable dhcpcd

Reboot⌗

reboot