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Arch Startup

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make a bootable usb disk

  1. download iso
  2. spare the disk on disk management
    1. shrink the disk
    2. make 100G free space for it
  3. use Rufus to write iso and convert to bootable usb disk
    1. choose the Partition scheme check the bios mode on security info, choose GPT if the mode is UEFI
  4. restart it and press F1 to edit the boot config
  5. use F12 to choose the boot disk
    1. USB HDD: SanDisk

Arch install

setfont ter-132n
timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Shanghai
loadkeys
lsblk
list the disk
cfdisk /dev/xx

mkfs.ext
mkswap
swapon
mount / dev/sda5 / mnt

i3 wm

sudo pacman -Sy i3
echo "exec i3" >> ~/.xinitrc
sudo pacman -S xorg xorg-xinit
startx

welcome kit

sudo pacman -S lightdm
sudo pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter
sudo systemctl enable lightdm
sudo systemctl start lightdm

TODO

init list