I've watched the following video which explains pretty much everything there is to know:
You might also want to read the Arch Linux Installation Guide. The German guide is also very good.
I just like to add some notes. They are primarily for myself, so you really should read the installation guide or watch the video.
The Arch Linux installation setup is command line based.
Keyboard layout
You can switch to a German keyboard layout with this command:
loadkeys de
Partitioning and mounting
You need a bootable partition and a swap partition (that is at least as big as much RAM you have). Partitioning can be done with cfdisk (configure disk).
Check the result with
parted /dev/sda print
fdisk -l
Afterwards:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home/
Getting internet
I only have WLAN at the moment, which makes things more difficult:
wpa_passphrase "SSID" PASSWORD > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_supplicant -i wlp4so -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
dhcpcd wlp4s0
wlp4s0 is the wlan interface (which is wlan0 most of the time). You get it with ip link.
I had a lot of fun at this point as you can see here.
Install base system
packstrap -i /mnt base base base-devel
After accepting all defaults (by pressing enter) and letting it download:
genfstab -U -p /mnt : sed 's/rw,realtime,data=ordered/defaults,realtime/' >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
nano /etc/locale.gen
Uncomment your language (from now on, your promt should be "sh-4.2#").
locale=gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc
systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
Now edit and uncomment multilib. Then:
mkinitcpio -p linux
Now set the password by entering passwd.
Create your user:
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash moose
passwd moose
Synchronise caches:
pacman -Syy
Install grub:
pacman -S grub-bios
pacman -S os-prober
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit
restart
Give yourself sudo:
pacman -S sudo
nano /etc/sudoers
Add your user to the bottom section "User privilege specification"
Install GNOME
pacman -S gnome xorg
systemctl enable gdm.service
MATE
Add the following to your /etc/pacman.conf:
[mate]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archlinux/$arch
Run
# pacman -Syy
# pacman -S mate mate-extras
Lets see if I get an answer to some essential basic questions.