Before starting the bootable media, if you are on a GTX 10XX, the interface will not load properly, to fix this in the arch iso boot menu, click on the "e" key and add "nouveau.modeset=0" at the end of grub
```shell cfdisk /dev/sda ```Create 3 partitions as listed below, and change the type for sda2 and sda3
/dev/sda1 = FAT partition for EFI /dev/sda2 = / (root) /dev/sda4 = swap
``` mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 mkswap /dev/sda3 swapon /dev/sda3 ``` ``` mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab ``` ``` arch-chroot /mnt ```check with "mount" if /sys/firmware/efi/efivars is mounted
``` vi /etc/locale.gen locale-gen echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/your-time-zone > /etc/localtime hwclock --systohc --utc ``` ``` echo my_linux > /etc/hostname ``` ``` vi /etc/pacman.conf ``` > \[multilib\] > Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > > \[archlinuxfr\] > SigLevel = Never > Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch ``` pacman -Sy pacman -S bash-completion vim ntfs-3g ``` ``` useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/bash dave passwd passwd dave visudo %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL ``` ``` bootctl install vim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf ``` > title Arch Linux > linux /vmlinuz-linux > initrd /initramfs-linux.img ```shell echo "options root=PARTUUID=$(blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/sdb3) rw" >> /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf ```If you own a Haswell processor or higher
```shell pacman -S intel-ucode ``` > title Arch Linux > initrd /intel-ucode.img > initrd /initramfs-linux.img ``` ip add systemctl dhcpcd@eth0.service ``` Now Lets get the graphical stuff: ``` pacman -S nvidia-dkms libglvnd nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia lib32-libglvnd lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings gnome linux-headers vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf ``` > MODULES="nvidia nvidia\_modeset nvidia\_uvm nvidia\_drm" ```shell vim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf ``` > options root=PARTUUID=bada2036-8785-4738-b7d4-2b03009d2fc1 rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1 ```shell vim /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook ``` > \[Trigger\] > Operation=Install > Operation=Upgrade > Operation=Remove > Type=Package > Target=nvidia > > \[Action\] > Depends=mkinitcpio > When=PostTransaction > Exec=/usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P ```shell exit umount -R /mnt reboot ``` ##### POST INSTALL ```shell pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics mesa xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-xinit xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm yaourt gnome nodm systemctl enable NetworkManager systemctl disable dhcpcd@.service systemctl enable nodm vim /etc/nodm.conf ``` > NODM\_USER=*dave* > NODM\_XSESSION=/home/*dave/.xinitrc* ```shell vim /etc/pam.d/nodm ``` ```shell auth include system-local-login account include system-local-login password include system-local-login session include system-local-login ```reboot