Arch Linux

Preparing Storage

First we have to prepare our storage devices. We assume, we only have one 10GB hard drive, which we divide into 5 partitions:

• • EFI System Partition - /boot/efi  - 512MB

  • Boot Partition           - /boot        - 1GB

  • Swap Partition                              - 1GB

  • Var Partition             - /var           - 3GB

  • Root Partition           - /                - 3.5GB

sh# cfdisk /dev/sda

...

Formating Partitions

sh# mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1

sh# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

sh# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4

sh# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda5

sh# mkswap /dev/sda3

Mounting Partitions

sh# mount -onoatime /dev/sda5 /mnt

sh# mkdir /mnt/var && mount -onoatime /dev/sda4 /var

sh# mkdir /mnt/boot && mount -onoatime /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot

sh# mkdir /mnt/boot/efi && mount -onoatime /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

Installing Base Packages

sh# pacstrap /mnt base

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

sh# arch-chroot /mnt