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Boot Installer ​

WARNING

Make sure Secure Boot is disabled when booting the install medium.

For Hyper-V, see here

For physical machines, see the manufacturer's documentation.

Secure Boot can be enabled later for physical machines. It's unnecessary for VMs.

This section is 1.4-1.7 of the Arch Linux Installation Guide.

Boot Install Image ​

In Hyper-V ​

  1. Once again open Hyper-V Manager.
  2. Select your VM, and click Settings
  3. Select SCSI Controller on the left
  4. Add a DVD Drive
  5. Select Image file, and choose the location of the .iso image you just downloaded
  6. Click Apply
  7. Go to Firmware
  8. Make the boot order Hard Drive first, and DVD Drive second, and the rest in the bottom
  9. Click OK to close the settings
  10. Start your VM and click Connect
  11. You should see the boot menu

WARNING

If you don't see anything, double check that you have Secure Boot disabled

On Physical Machine ​

With Secure Boot disabled, insert the bootable USB and boot from it.

Enter the Install Medium ​

Select Arch Linux install medium (x86_64, UEFI), which should be the first option, then, Wait until you see the command prompt like

root@archiso ~ #

Connect to internet ​

TIP

For Ethernet connection, it will automatically work when the cable is plugged in.

For Hyper-V, make sure the external virtual switch is connected to the correct network adapter. See here

To connect to internet using Wi-Fi, run

bash
iwctl

List the Wi-Fi devices

device list

WARNING

We will assume the Wi-Fi device is wlan0. See the output of device list to confirm the device name.

If the device is powered off, turn it on

device wlan0 set-property Powered on

Then, initiate a scan (note there will be no output) and list available networks

station wlan0 scan
station wlan0 get-networks

To connect to a network, run the following, and type in the password.

station wlan0 connect <SSID>

Then, exit by

quit

Verify internet connection ​

First verify that your machine is connected to the local network

bash
ip address

You should see an local address starting with 192.168 indicating that the machine is connected to your local network.

TIP

For Hyper-V, if the connection is not working, you might need to change the network adapter the external virtual switch is connecting to.

Then, verify you have internet connection

bash
ping archlinux.org

Press Ctrl-C to stop pinging

Setup SSH ​

With SSH, we can install the system from the device you are reading this guide on. So you can copy and paste commands from this guide to the terminal.

Run passwd to set a short, temporary password

TIP

This will not be the root password for the OS you are installing. This is the root password for the live environment. Type something simple like change so you can type it quickly.

Then, on the host system, run

ssh root@<ip-address>

TIP

Replace <ip-address> with the IP address you got from ip address

Enter the password you just set, and you should now see the same prompt

root@archiso ~ #

WARNING

Keep your new machine/VM running!