Antergos & KDE Plasma as a daily driver

Phantom · July 15, 2017, 1:41pm

Just some things to look over.

"Quick" and Dirty Guide to an Arch Linux installation Linux

Howdy! Want to install Arch on your UEFI hardware, but find the official documentation a bit over your head? This is a simple, "quick and dirty" method of install Arch on your UEFI hardware as simply as possible, with any WM/DE of your choice. Simple, fast, effective - the goal of Arch is to perform well without nonsense, so that's how this guide will be written. Prerequirements: Arch iso USB drive or CD UEFI hardware Keyboard, mouse, eyes First, you need the Arch Linux iso. The same iso file supports both 32 bit and 64 bit installations, so don't worry about it not being the right version. I recommend torrenting it because of the kagillion seeders. Once you've downloaded it, you need to burn it. Do not use Unetbootin for this - it doesn't show you how to do it the right way, and it doesn't actually work with Arch from the current iso. Warning - will delete all data on the drive. Please backup if necessary. Formatting is serious shit. If you're on Linux, then you have a really easy job. Simply open the terminal emulator of your choice, sudo su into root perm, and type: dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdX Where the /dev/sdX is your USB drive or location of your CD drive. If you're on Windows, I recommend Win32 Disk Imager. Select the slowest burn option, select your iso file, your USB drive you wish to format, and you're good to go. It's all GUI, so should be pretty easy to figure out. Once you've burned your livedisk, reboot the machine, but boot directly into UEFI (usually F2, F11, or Del to force it). Every UEFI is different based on manufacturer and version, but boot into whatever medium you burnt your iso to in UEFI mode. It must not boot into standard BIOS mode, it must be UEFI boot. There are several options once the livedisk is loaded - default, UEFI shell 1, UEFI shell 2, etc. Just leave it alone and boot into the standard/default selected option. You can boot into UEFI shells 1 or 2, but they pretty much, for all intensive purposes, achieve the same thing. O…

They're old, but useful.