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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

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 
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

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"

vim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

options root=PARTUUID=bada2036-8785-4738-b7d4-2b03009d2fc1 rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1

/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

exit 
umount -R /mnt 
reboot

POST INSTALL

pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics mesa xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-xinit xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm
systemctl enable gdm
systemctl enable NetworkManager
systemctl start NetworkManager
systemctl disable dhcpcd@.service
systemctl start gdm
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