ArchLinux Useage Record

ArchLinux Useage Record

1. Download ArchLinux ISO

• ArchLinux

2. Install ArchLinux on VirtualBox

• Open VirtulBox and new virtual machine
• Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)
  • Ping test
    ping baidu.com
    ==If ping test is failed, Stop and end ！==
• Create 10GB Hard disk partition
  Three partition
  • root partition
    cfdisk
    Select dos chance, Clik New option to change 20GB to 10GB, select primary option and press Enter. Select Bootable option and write, enter yes.

• Create 2GB SWAP partition
  The same as above steps to partition Swap partition except RAM is 2048M.

• Create 8GB Logcial partition
  Reference to Create 10GB Hard disk partition. RAM is 8GB.
  final select Quit option to quit.

• Format the three partition

  mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1   // sda1 is name of Root partition
  mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3  // sda3 is name of Logical partition
  
  mkswap /dev/sda2   // Format the swap partition with mkswap

• Activate swap partition
  swapon /dev/sda2
• Mount the sda1 partition to install the system
  c mount /dev/sda1 /mnt /* /dev/sda1 and /mnt are two directories */
• Booting Arch Linux to startup
  pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
• generating /etc/fstab
  genfstab /mnt>> /mnt/etc/fstab
• The configuration of region, time and root password
  Enter the following command to change the root directory of the system to the installation directory of Arch Linux.
  arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
  • Language configuration
    nano /etc/local.gen
    If there is nothing in the open file, Add en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 to file. Press Control + X , y to save it. Press Enter.
    If there is en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in the open file, Delete # symbol at head and save.
  • Activating
    Enter the following command to activate it
    locale-gen
    
• Create the /etc/locale.conf configuration file
  nano /etc/locale.conf
  Add LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to open file and save.
• Synchronous time zone (X)
  ls user/share/zoneinfo
  No such a file or directory, There is a trouble.
• passwd
  • Enter root password
  • Retype the root password
• Set up hostname and network
  nano /etc/hostname
  Enter you hostname and save it.
• Activate dhcpcd
  systemctl enable dhcpcd
  This will cause dhcp to start automatically the next time the system starts and automatically obtain an IP address.
• Install the boot loader
  c pacman -S grub os-rober // If prompted incorrectly use the following command pacman -S grub os-prober
  • Install the boot loader to hard disk
    grub-install /dev/sda
  • Configuration
    grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• Reboot
  • Exit chroot mode
    Control + D
  • Reboot
    reboot

3. Boot existing OS

    Enter Robot Logic: root
    Password: 

Arch Linux installed successfully !

4. Install Vim

• Install Vim
  pacman -S vim

• Configuration Vim
  vim /etc/profile and add following command to the end of open file
  ```
  export LS_OPTIONS="--color=auto -N -T 0"
  alias ls="ls $LS_OPTIONS"
  alias ll="ls -l"
  alias lf="ls -F"
  alias la="ls -a"
  alias lt="ls -t"
  alias lx="ls -X"
  alias l="ls -lA"
  alias l.="ls -d .*"

  `vim /etc/vimrc` and add following command to the end of open file 

  set nocp
  set ru
  set background=dark
  "set columns=80
  set nobk
  set is
  syn on
  set backspace=indent,eol,start
  set whichwrap=b,s,<,>,[,]
  set sw=4
  set ts=4
  set lbr
  set sm
  set cin
  set softtabstop=4
  set autoindent
  set number
  set hls
  set fo+=mB
  set vb t_vb=
  set nobackup
  ```

5. Compile the first C program in ArchLinux

• cd /home
• Vim a.c
c #include<stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("hello world\n"); return 0; }
  save and exit
• gcc a.c
• ./a.out

if the terminal appears ==hello world==, it means success. Congratulations.

6. End

This article is organized by Chanmo.
Because of his poor English, I want to improve my English by this way of writing technical documentation in English