Install arch linux on virtualbox

thomasheller / INSTALL.md

Quick install guide for Arch — if you’re looking for an automated installer, consider Arch Anywhere.

Create a new VM, choose type Linux and version Arch Linux (64-bit). Allocate a reasonable amount of RAM and create a new hard disk.

Make sure the VM has two network adapters enabled: Adapter 1 attached to NAT and Adapter 2 attached to Host-only adapter vboxnet0 if you have multiple VMs inside a host-only network.

Attach the ISO image to your VM and boot into Arch’s live system.

Check network: ping archlinux.org

1. fdisk /dev/sda
2. n — new partition
3. (enter) ( p — primary disk)
4. (enter) ( 1 — partition number)
5. (enter) set first sector
6. (enter) set last sector (use whole disk)
7. w — write partition table and quit

Format partition:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

Mount the filesystem:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

Install the base packages:
pacstrap /mnt base

Generate /etc/fstab :
genfstab -U /mnt >>/mnt/etc/fstab

Change root to the newly created system:
arch-chroot /mnt

Set the timezone, e.g.:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime

Generate /etc/adjtime :
hwclock —systohc

1. Uncomment your preferred locale (e.g. en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 ) in /etc/locale.gen using vi .
2. Run locale-gen .
3. Put the corresponding LANG variable (e.g. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ) in /etc/locale.conf :
   echo ‘LANG=en_US.UTF-8’ >/etc/locale.conf

Set hostname (e.g. arch ):
echo arch >/etc/hostname

Enable DHCP client daemon:
systemctl enable dhcpcd

Set root password:
passwd
(your password)
(your password)

1. pacman -S grub
2. grub-install —target=i386-pc /dev/sda
3. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Now boot from the first hard disk.

Login as root using your password.

Add non-root user with sudo permissions and Zsh as the default shell:

1. Install sudo and Zsh:
   pacman -S sudo zsh
2. Add user (e.g. John):
   useradd -m -g users -s /usr/bin/zsh john
3. Set password:
   passwd john
   (your password)
   (your password)
4. Edit /etc/sudoers using EDITOR=vi visudo and add permissions, e.g.:
   john ALL=(ALL) ALL

1. Install systemd-swap:
   pacman -S systemd-swap
2. Enable the swap daemon:
   systemctl enable systemd-swap

1. Install required packages:
   pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit xorg-apps xterm
2. Install video driver:
   pacman -S xf86-video-vesa
3. Install default terminal:
   pacman -S xterm
4. Install some popular fonts:
   pacman -S ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-inconsolata

Update the system:
pacman -Syu

• Install your window manager of choice.
• Activate bi-directional clipboard in the VM settings and install the Guest Additions.
• Switch to linux-lts kernel.

You mentioned installing xterm twice, was this intentional? Please keep this post up, I can’t install Arch without it.

Hi, when I reboot my PC after removing the hard disk, I’ve got grub CLI. This is normal?
How can I boot in grub cli?

Hi @iZel345 That is not normal. You will not be able to boot because there was an installation problem.

This step pacstrap /mnt base does not install the linux kernel. Run pacstrap /mnt base linux (or linux-lts) instead. You can recover your installation if you add back the archlinux iso and reboot from the disk. Then rerun:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
pacstrap /mnt linux
arch-chroot /mnt
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

You should see this in the output of grub-mkconfig:

Found lunux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img 

Reboot and it should work.

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