![]() ![]() Section 2 – Decide how and where to install You will first need to download Arch Linux – Suggest that you do this from the site: ![]() Don’t be shy of a little trial and error here, it’s what makes it more fun, and it is how you will learn what works and what doesn’t! I for one will definitely be running through this install a couple of times for this tutorial to ensure I have captured everything Section 1 – Pre-requisites What I will try and do in each section will be to give you the benefit of my experiences and frustrations at certain sections, especially when it comes to installing on UEFI instead of BIOS and the troubles that secure-boot can cause. and I don’t have any of this fancy screen mirror recording equipment either to be able to show you this on any physical hardware. I’m not in possession of any HP or Dell server hardware at home with ILO, DRAC, etc. There are already great tutorials on this site on how to set up and use VirtualBox. I found I had to use an older kernel to retain interoperability.įor this tutorial, I will be using VirtualBox, as I would have difficulty installing on a physical system while taking screenshots. If you have any software that relies on LTS kernels, this may not be the best OS for you one package of which I have experienced issues in the past, due to LTS requirements and older (stable) kernels, is VMware workstation for Linux. ![]() I should also mention at this point, Arch it is a very lightweight bleeding edge operating system, whilst retaining stability. There are many methods to do everything, different partitioning tools, and lots of ways to carve up your disks (if you are using a virtual machine LVM would be beneficial as it provides that dynamic disk allocation that is useful for extending your LUNs as required, etc). This can be a bit fiddly, but is a really great learning curve, especially if you are installing it on physical hardware. Here is my method for installing Arch Linux. ![]()
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