Avans 2.x POA Arch Linux

ID: S202602050916 Status: school Tags: Arch Linux, POA

Uur-log

Initial Setup

05/02/2026 09:15-11:30 05/02/2026 12:30-16:15 Total: 6h.

I installed the torrent version, and then installed sudo apt install qbittorrent to be able to download the full file from the torrent. After torrenting the entire file, I checked the .iso it’s checksum:

echo "c0ee0dab0a181c1d6e3d290a81ae9bc41c329ecaa00816ca7d62a685aeb8d972  /home/<my_username>/Downloads/archlinux-2026.02.01-x86_64.iso" | sha256sum -c -

And it returned: /home/<my_username>/Downloads/archlinux-2026.02.01-x86_64.iso: OK which means it is good. Make sure to use the current checksum from the download page.

I am going to install it with a USB flash drive.

After installing the flashdrive, I have to point my pc to it in the BIOS and select Arch Linux Install Medium

Installing the flash drive

I first made sure that it is not mounted. then I ran

sudo dd bs=4M if=/home/<my_username>/Downloads/archlinux-2026.02.01-x86_64.iso \
  of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_Flash_Disk_ABC00630-0:0 conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress

When booted in terminal

After you told the BIOS to boot Arch Linux, you will be met with a terminal.

localectl list-keymaps
loadkeys us
setfont lat2-16 -m 8859-2

cat /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size

With this we can see our Boot mode. If it is 64, it means it is UEFI booted in 64 bit.

Connect to internet

Then we try and connect to the internet with

ip link

To verify that you connected to it, you can ping:

ping ping.archlinux.org

Sync the clock

timedatectl

Mounting and formatting

wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1
parted /dev/nvme0n1 mklabel gpt
parted /dev/nvme0n1

And then in the parted, these commands:

mkpart EFI fat32 1MiB 1025MiB
set 1 esp on
mkpart SWAP linux-swap 1025MiB 5121MiB
mkpart ROOT ext4 5121MiB 100%
quit

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3

then I ran:

blkid /dev/nvme0n1p1 /dev/nvme0n1p2 /dev/nvme0n1p3

And nano /etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# See man fstab(5)

# EFI System Partition
UUID=AA11-BB22   /boot     vfat    defaults,noatime   0 2

# Swap
UUID=11112222-3333-4444-5555-666677778888   none    swap    sw   0 0

# Root filesystem
UUID=99998888-7777-6666-5555-444433332222   /   ext4   defaults,noatime   0 1

Where the UUID’s are replaced with the ones the blkid command showed.

and then I ran mount -a to test it.

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware amd-ucode networkmanager nano vim man-db man-pages

Configuring

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
locale-gen

Then I created a /etc/locale.conf with LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I also created /etc/hostname with mothership as text. and i created /etc/vconsole.conf with the same keyboard as before: KEYMAP=us

Then I set a root password:

passwd

Then I skipped setting up a bootloader since I already have grub for my ubuntu, so I loaded my ubuntu and ran:

sudo update-grub

Grub issues

For me personally, it didn’t work with an already installede grub directly, so I had to run this on my arch:

pacman -S grub efibootmgr

grub-install —target=x86_64-efi —efi-directory=/boot/efi —bootloader-id=Arch grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

and then this on my ubuntu to keep using the grub on ubuntu's side:

sudo os-prober sudo update-grub

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References

• arch wiki installation guide