💻 Arch Linux Bootloader

Caveat: This was a system I used for 2018-2019

• iwctl

  • station wlan0 connect YOURFRIENDLYNEIGHBORHOODWIFIADDRESS

    Device found with ip link

    • Enter passphrase

  • exit

• chroot /mnt /bin/bash

• cp /etc/netctl/examples/wireless-wpa /etc/netctl/<essid_name>

• vi /etc/netctl/<essid_name>

  ip link, essid, key, etc.

• netctl start <essid_name>

• mkfs.ext4 /dev/sXX

• swapon /dev/sXX

• mount /dev/sXX /mnt

  filesystem

• pacstrap /mnt base

• genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

• arch-chroot /mnt

• ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/TAB /etc/localtime

  Pressing TAB after zoneinfo a few times shows options (same for region)

• hwclock --systohc

• pacman -S vim grub

• vim /etc/locale.gen

  en_US.UTF-8, UTF-8)
  

• locale-gen

• vim /etc/locale.conf

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8)
  

• vim /etc/hostname

• vim /etc/hosts

  127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname
  

• grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdX

  Disk/SSD

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

• passwd

• exit

• pacman -S borgbackup ranger tmux vim htop

• mkdir /Storage

• mount /dev/sdX /Storage

• tmux

  CTRL + b + % or CTRL + b to split the screen

  See also Tmux

• borg list /Storage/OS_Backups/Arch_Linux

• cd /mnt

• borg extract --dry-run --progress /Storage/OS_Backups/Arch_Linux::root-2019-xx-xx

• arch-chroot /mnt

• apend new uuid to fstab

  sudo blkid or sudo fdisk -l

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