Requirements

• AMD GPU
• UEFI
• Make sure to turn off secure/fast boot in your UEFI settings.

Features

• EXT4
• Swap
• Gnome
• Wifi and Bluetooth
• AMD GPU

Index

1. Pre-installation
   1. Double check
   2. Connecting to wifi (optional)
   3. Confirm that you have Internet conenction
   4. Update kerings if installer outdated (optional)
2. Formatting
   1. Create partitions
   2. Mount partitions
3. Installation
   1. Base install
   2. Bootloader setup
   3. Configuration setup
   4. Install the rest of the packages
   5. User setup
   6. AUR setup
4. Post installation
   1. Reboot

Pre-installation

Double check

1. Confirm that its EFI

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

If you see huge text output, its efi. Else if you get error, make sure you selected to boot with UEFI via bootmenu.

Connecting to wifi (optional)

1. Enter iwctl shell

iwctl

2. Show wifi devices

device list

3. Scan for wifis

station wlan0 scan

4. Show wifis

station wlan0 get-networks

5. Connect to wifi

station wlan0 connect "name"

6. Leave iwctl shell

exit

Confirm that you have Internet conenction

1. Confirm that you have internet connection

ping google.com

Update kerings if installer outdated (optional)

1. Update kerings

pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

This is to prevent errors when using pacman later, that can accur if you are not using the latest installer. (skip if you just now flashed .iso)

Formatting

Create partitions.

1. Check where you want to install disk NAME and SIZE

lsblk

2. Carefully choose disk and format it with

mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1

Be sure to replace nvme0n1 with your disk name from lsblk if its not the same

3. Calculate how much you want to have swap (i recommend 20gb at least). So for example if lsblk shows that u have 465G size disk, subtract 1 for boot partition, 20 for swap parition. So you will have left 444G for main parition, 1G for boot partition and 20G for swap partition

4. Run partitioning tool

gdisk /dev/nvme0n1

5. Create 1G boot partition

   1. For "Command (? for help)" write n and press enter
   2. For "Partition number" just press enter
   3. For "First sector ..." just press enter
   4. For "Last sector ..." write +1G and press enter
   5. For "Hex code or GUID ..." write ef00 and press enter

6. Create 444G main partition

   1. For "Command (? for help)" write n and press enter
   2. For "Partition number" just press enter
   3. For "First sector ..." just press enter
   4. For "Last sector ..." write +444G and press enter
   5. For "Hex code or GUID ..." just press enter

7. Create 20G swap partition

   1. For "Command (? for help)" write n and press enter
   2. For "Partition number" just press enter
   3. For "First sector ..." just press enter
   4. For "Last sector ..." just press enter
   5. For "Hex code or GUID ..." write 8200 and press enter

8. Write w and press enter

9. Format the boot partition

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1

10. Format the main partition

mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2

11. Format the swap partitoin

mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3

Mount partitions.

1. Mount the main partition

mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt

2. Create boot folder

mkdir /mnt/boot

3. Mount boot partitoin

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

4. Mount swap partition

swapon /dev/nvme0n1p3

Installation

Base install

1. Install base pacakges

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware grub efibootmgr amd-ucode os-prober git nano 

2. Generate mount points

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

3. Enter installed linux environment

arch-chroot /mnt

Bootloader setup

1. Create initial ramdisk environment

mkinitcpio -p linux

2. Install grub bootloader

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB

3. Generate grub bootloader config

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Configuration setup

1. Set timezone

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vilnius /etc/localtime

You can list zones with ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/ or with ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/

2. Sync hardware clock

hwclock --systohc

3. Uncomment UTF-8 languages that you want by deleting # then save and exist

nano /etc/locale.gen

For example en_US.UTF-8

4. Generate the languages that you selected

locale-gen

5. Set the default language

echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf

6. Set pc name

echo "angel-pc" >> /etc/hostname

You can "angel-pc" to whatever you want, but don't write special characters or spaces.

7. Setup host file with nano /etc/hosts and write in it

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1       localhost
127.0.1.1 angel-pc.localdomain angel-pc

Then save and exit

8. Enable multilib support with nano /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment by deleting # from:

[multilib]  
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then save and exit

9. (Optional) multi-threading compiling with nano /etc/makepkg.conf by uncommenting line:

MAKEFLAGS="-j2"

To uncomment, delete # on specified line like previous times, then save and exit. Change the number 2 to how many threads you have on your cpu, you can check with nproc

Install the rest of the packages

1. First update pacman database with

pacman -Sy

2. Install packages

pacman -S networkmanager network-manager-applet dialog wpa_supplicant mtools dosfstools reflector inetutils base-devel linux-headers   bluez bluez-utils xdg-utils xdg-user-dirs alsa-utils pipewire lib32-pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack   gnome gnome-extra gdm xdg-desktop-portal-gnome   xdg-desktop-portal fish xorg wayland qt5-wayland qt6-wayland breeze   mesa lib32-mesa xf86-video-amdgpu vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver lib32-libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau lib32-mesa-vdpau steam wine-staging lutris wine-mono wine-gecko gamemode lib32-gamemode  noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-extra ttf-liberation

3. Enable services (case sensitive)

systemctl enable NetworkManager
systemctl enable bluetooth
systemctl enable gdm

4. Set default shell for root (Optional)

chsh -s /bin/fish

User setup

1. Set root password

passwd

2. Create user

useradd -mG wheel angel

You can name it whatever you want, but don't use special characters or spaces.

3. Set password for angel user

passwd angel

4. Add sudo support for wheel group with EDITOR=nano visudo by uncommenting %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL like this:

## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Then save and exit.

5. Switch to your user

su angel

4. Set default shell for user (Optional)

chsh -s /bin/fish

6. Go to your home folder

cd ~

AUR setup

1. Clone the repository locally

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay

1. Enter the repository

cd yay

3. Install yay

makepkg -si PKGBUILD

Post installation

Reboot

1. First exist your user by pressing ctrl+d then exist arch-chroot by pressing ctrl+d again

2. Then unmount all partitions

umount -a

Errors are expected, continue.

3. Reboot

reboot