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The document provides instructions for completing the post-installation configuration of an Arch Linux system, including setting the locale, keyboard layout, hostname, root password, boot loader, and recommendations for additional configuration.

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Installation Guide - ArchWiki - Part 5

The document provides instructions for completing the post-installation configuration of an Arch Linux system, including setting the locale, keyboard layout, hostname, root password, boot loader, and recommendations for additional configuration.

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Create the locale.conf(5) (https://man.archlinux.org/man/locale.conf.

5) file,
and set the LANG variable accordingly:

/etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

If you set the console keyboard layout, make the changes persistent in vconsole.conf(5) (h
ttps://man.archlinux.org/man/vconsole.conf.5):

/etc/vconsole.conf

KEYMAP=de-latin1

3.5 Network configuration


Create the hostname file:

/etc/hostname

myhostname

Complete the network configuration for the newly installed environment. That may include
installing suitable network management software.

3.6 Initramfs
Creating a new initramfs is usually not required, because mkinitcpio was run on installation of the
kernel package with pacstrap.

For LVM, system encryption or RAID, modify mkinitcpio.conf(5) (https://man.archl


inux.org/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5) and recreate the initramfs image:

# mkinitcpio -P

3.7 Root password


Set the root password:

# passwd

3.8 Boot loader


Choose and install a Linux-capable boot loader. If you have an Intel or AMD CPU, enable
microcode updates in addition.

4 Reboot
Exit the chroot environment by typing exit or pressing Ctrl+d .

Optionally manually unmount all the partitions with umount -R /mnt : this allows noticing any
"busy" partitions, and finding the cause with fuser(1) (https://man.archlinux.org/man/f
user.1).

Finally, restart the machine by typing reboot : any partitions still mounted will be automatically
unmounted by systemd. Remember to remove the installation medium and then login into the new
system with the root account.

5 Post-installation
See General recommendations for system management directions and post-installation tutorials
(like creating unprivileged user accounts, setting up a graphical user interface, sound or a touchpad).

For a list of applications that may be of interest, see List of applications.

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This page was last edited on 9 October 2022, at 06:15.

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