I like to keep things short and to the point. Lets start.

1. Partitioning the Hard Drive

• Identify the disk

   fdisk -l
  

• Partition the disk

   cfdisk /dev/sda
  

• Format the ext4 partition

   mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
  

• Mount the root drive

   mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
  

• Create swap file on the swap partition

   mkswap /dev/sda1			
  

• Turn on swap utilisation

   swapon /dev/sda1
  

2. Installing the System

• Install the base system to the root drive(currently mounted to /mnt)

  • Downloads approx. 250MB

      pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
    

3. Configuring the Installation

• Set a few things up

  • Set the root password

      arch-chroot /mnt
      passwd 
      ****
    

  • Set locale

      nano /etc/local.gen
      //Uncomment the selected locale and save
    

  • create the locales

      locale-gen
    

  • Set Time zone

    • Identify Time zone

        cd /usr/share/zoneinfo
        ls
        cd <Country>
        ls
      

    • Set the Time zone

        ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Country>/<Region> /etc/localtime
      

  • Set hostname echo > /etc/hostname

  • Install Bootloader

    • Download Grub

        pacman -S grub-bios
      

    • Install grub

        grub-install sda
      

  • Generate init file

      mkinitcpio -p linux
    

  • Create grub configuration file

      grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
    

  • Exit chroot session

      exit
    

• Generate fstab file

    genfstab /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  

• Unmount root

    umount /mnt
  

• Reboot the system

    reboot
  

4. Configuring the Network

• Identify the Network Interface and the Kernel driver used

    lscpi -v | less
  

• Get the Interface name

    dmesg | grep e1000
  

• Turn the interface on

    ip link set eno16777736 up
  

• Turn on dhcp

    dhcpcd eno16777736
  

5. Installing GUI

• Install Gnome Desktop

    pacman -S gnome
  

• Install Xorg-xinit

    pacman -S xorg-xinit
  

6. Start the GUI

	startx