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Installation Guide

Generate a filesystem table (aka fstab) using the following command.


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

Warning

You should check the resulting /mnt/etc/fstab file and correct it in case of errors.

Chrooting means changing root. Chroot into the new system using:


arch-chroot /mnt

Tip

It's good to memorize the arch-chroot command. It may come in handy to repair the system in the future.

You can view all possible time zones using:


ls -R /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Set the time zone:


ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime

Run hwclock to generate /etc/adjtime:


hwclock --systohc

This command assumes the hardware clock is set to UTC.

Edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed locales. Generate the locales by running:


locale-gen

Create the locale.conf file, and set the LANG variable accordingly:





LANG=en_US.UTF-8

If you set the keyboard layout, make the changes persistent in vconsole.conf:





KEYMAP=pl

Create the hostname file:





myhostname

Add matching entries to /etc/hosts:





127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	myhostname.localdomain	myhostname

If the system has a permanent static IP address, it should be used instead of 127.0.1.1.

Creating a new initramfs is usually not required, because mkinitcpio was run on installation of the kernel package with pacstrap.


mkinitcpio -P

Set the root password:


passwd

Choose and install a Linux-capable boot loader. If you have an Intel or AMD CPU, enable microcode updates in addition.

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