WARNING: The installation process for Arch Linux changed (slightly) a few weeks after I made this video. When you run the pacstrap command, you now need to "pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware". For a more up-to-date version of this guide check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgyW10xD8s - Arch Linux Installation Guide (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pouX5VvX0_Q - After The Base Install, Installing Xorg and a Window Manager Today, I'm going to run through the Arch Linux installation inside a virtual machine (VirtualBox). If you have never tried to install Arch before, running through the installation in a VM a few times can boost your confidence a bit before taking the plunge on your real machine. SOME OF THE COMMANDS I RAN: ping google.com (CTRL-c to kill the ping) timedatectl set-ntp true timedatectl status cfdisk mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 mkswap /dev/sda2 swapon /dev/sda2 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt pacstrap /mnt base arch-chroot /mnt ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime hwclock --systohc locale-gen nano/etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.UTF-8 nano /etc/hostname myhostname (dt was what I used) nano /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost 127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname passwd useradd -m newusername (I used derek) passwd yourusername usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage yourusername pacman -S vim visudo pacman -S grub grub-install /dev/sda grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg pacman -S xorg REFERENCED: ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_boot_process#Boot_loader ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration ► https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/users_and_groups WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? 💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube 💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=derek%40distrotube%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=DistroTube&no_note=0¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest 🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi 👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube SOCIAL PLATFORMS: 🗨️ Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@distrotube 💬 IRC: irc://freenode #distrotube 👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/ DT ON THE WEB: 🕸️ Website: http://distrotube.com/ 🌐 Gopherhole: gopher://distro.tube 📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1 Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!