Editing Installing Arch Linux (section)

=Presetup=
==Boot==
The following guide is for UEFI systems, see [[Installing Archlinux (Legacy)]] for MBR. If you have an existing UEFI bootloader somewhere, identify it and mount it somewhere to confirm you can find the efi/ folder. Once properly identified, make note of this partition's device name (ex. /dev/sdb1) and unmount it. If you do not have a UEFI partition and are starting fresh, ensure you partition/format ~300-500MB for one, it helps a lot in multi-boot environments.

==Disk setup==

===Partitions===
Swap is pretty much optional but if you want Hibernate, it's needed

* /dev/sda1
** /boot - 300MB - EFI Filesystem 
* /dev/sda3
** swap - 8.8G - Linux swap
* /dev/sda2
** / - therest - Linux filesystem

It's also helpful to mount separate drives as your /home or /opt directories. I tend to put Steam/Lutris libraries in /opt and have a drive dedicated to my home folder and configs. Other system mounts I tend to put in /mnt or get automounted once I get to a desktop

* use fdisk /dev/sd(diskletter)
* Delete any old partitions ('''''!!!EXCEPT EXISTING UEFI PARTITIONS!!!''''')
* Create new partitions like the one above
** For the above, make sda1 then sda3
* Ensure types are set appropriately
* Write the partition and exit
* Repeat for any other disk being used that needs erasing

===Format and Mount===
* Format target disks (cmd /dev/sda1-3)
** mkfs.ext4 for / and any others
** mkswap and swapon for swap
** mkfs.fat -F32 for NEW EFI partitions or /boot
* Mount devices and directories
** mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
** mkdir -p /mnt/boot && mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
* Additional mounts can be done now with a modification of the following:
** mkdir -p /mnt/opt && mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/opt
* Or Network Shares/CIFS stuff as well
** mkdir -p /mnt/mnt/share && mount -t cifs //shareserver/ /mnt/share/

==Update installer sources==
===Repos===
See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories Official] and [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories Unofficial] repos
====Multilib====
Needed for gaming on Steam
    echo "[multilib]
    Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" >> /etc/pacman.conf

====Valveaur====
For Valve's maintained Arch repo and f-sync patch for the kernel
    echo "[valveaur]" >> /etc/pacman.conf
    echo "Server = <nowiki>http://repo.steampowered.com/arch/valveaur</nowiki>" >> /etc/pacman.conf
Update pacman keys
    pacman-key -r 8DC2CE3A3D245E64 --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com && pacman-key --lsign-key 8DC2CE3A3D245E64

====Kernels====
=====linux-amd-znver2=====
<pre>
[linuxkernels]
Server = http://nhameh.ovh/$repo/$arch
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll</pre>