Today, I'm going to run through the Arch Linux installation inside a virtual machine (VirtualBox). If you have never tried to install Arch before, running through the installation in a VM a few times can boost your confidence a bit before taking the plunge on your real machine.

SOME OF THE COMMANDS I RAN:

ping google.com (CTRL-c to kill the ping)

timedatectl set-ntp true

timedatectl status

cfdisk

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

mkswap /dev/sda2

swapon /dev/sda2

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

pacstrap /mnt base

arch-chroot /mnt

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

hwclock --systohc

locale-gen

nano/etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

nano /etc/hostname

myhostname (dt was what I used)

nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost 127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname

passwd

useradd -m newusername (I used derek)

passwd yourusername

usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage yourusername

pacman -S vim

visudo

pacman -S grub

grub-install /dev/sda

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

pacman -S xorg

REFERENCED: ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_boot_process#Boot_loader ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/users_and_groups

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