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Install Arch Linux on ThinkPad X1 Carbon

14 Sep 2018 | Linux

It’s really a hard time installing Arch Linux on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Just write this down to remember the correct installation steps. Reference: Arch Wiki, viseator’s blog.

  1. Make the USB installation disk via dd: Arch Wiki and turn secure boot off.

  2. Login and connect to the internet (for WPA/WPA2)
    1. Stop dhcpcd service: systemctl stop dhcpcd@interface where interface is tab-completed.
    2. Get the name of interface: iw dev (here the name is wlp4s0)
    3. Scan the wireless connection: iwlist wlp4s0 scan
    4. Connect: wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp4s0 -c <(wpa_passphrase SSID KEY)
    5. Check status: iw dev wlp4s0 link
    6. Start dhcpcd service: dhcpcd
    7. Update clock: timedatectl set-ntp true
  3. Partite the disk
    1. Check here for making new partition (acturally, no need here)
    2. Format the partition: mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2
  4. Mount the filesystem
    1. mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
    2. (For EFI) mkdir /mnt/boot && mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot where /dev/nvme0n1p1 is the existing EFI partition
  5. Select the source mirrors
    1. vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrors, use y(copy) and p(paste) to copy U.S. sources to the beginning
    2. Install base pkgs: pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
  6. Configure the system
    1. Fstab: genfstab -L /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab (-U for defined by UUID and -L for labels); Check by cat to see if there’s errors
    2. Change root: arch-chroot /mnt
    3. Select timezone: 
       ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
 hwclock --systohc
    4. set root password: passwd
    5. Pre-install pkgs: pacman -S vim dialog wpa_supplicant ntfs-3g networkmanager
    6. Set locale: vim /etc/locale.gen, uncomment zh_CN, en_US, then 
       locale-gen
 echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
    7. Set hostname: echo "chuan" >> /etc/hostname
    8. Set hosts: vim /etc/hosts and add entries 
       127.0.0.1   localhost
 ::1         localhost
 127.0.1.1   chuan.localdomain chuan
    9. Install bootloader 
       pacman -S intel-ucode
 pacman -S os-prober
 pacman -S grub efibootmgr
 grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=grub
 grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

      IF WARNING/ERROR: check viseator’s blog

    10. Check: see the same link above.
    11. Reboot: 
      exit
reboot
  7. Configure after installations Ref: viseator’s blog, Arch Wiki
    1. If in 7.10 there’s no entry for Windows, then run 
       grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
    2. Connect to internet: 
       wifi-menu
    3. Add user: (-m: add home folder, -G wheel: add to group) 
       useradd -m -G wheel chuan
    4. Install and configure sudo: 
       pacman -S sudo
 visudo

      uncomment # %wheel ALL=(ALL)ALL, reboot -> notice to connect to the Internet!

  8. Install GUI
    1. Driver for graphics card 
       sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel
    2. Xorg 
       sudo pacman -S xorg
    3. DE 
       sudo pacman -S gnome
 sudo pacman -S sddm
    4. startups 
       sudo systemctl enable sddm
 sudo systemctl disable netctl
 sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager

Done.

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