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Arch Install Guide

Arch Install Guide

Glossary

Terms you may come across when reading the documentation. This contains a list defining all of these terms.

Introduction

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Outlines what the guide will and will not go through, requirements for installing Arch and guide notation

Booting the Arch Live ISO

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Informs you on how to boot into the Arch Live ISO and basic things like setting up keymaps and font sizes in the Live ISO

Connect to the internet

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Informs you on how to connect to the internet in the Arch Live ISO

Partitioning the drive

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Informs you on what partitions to make, how to make them, and how to format and mount them

Pre-chroot configuration

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Informs you on how to set up the mirrorlist, fstab file and how to install the bare minimum so that you can fully set up the operating system later

Chroot configuration

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Informs you on how to set the time, date, locale, language, root password and any user accounts

Logging into your user account

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Informs you on how to install the programs that allow you to have a comfortable desktop experience and how to set up pacman and networking so that they can be used properly.

Window and display managers

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Informs you on how to choose and install a window manager and a display manager

Extras

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Informs you on different applications you can install/configure to make your Arch Linux experience more comfortable