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Connect to the Internet using the interactive iwctl command.

iwctl

<device> and <SSID> are dependent on the device list and desired network.

device list
station <device> scan
station <device> get-networks
station <device> connect <SSID>
quit

Check that the connection is up.

ping archlinux.org

In case the ISO is out of date.

pacman -Sy --needed archlinux-keyring

fdisk -l
fdisk </dev/the_disk_to_be_partitioned>

Create physical volume.

pvcreate </dev/lvm_partition>

Create volume group on physical volume.

vgcreate <vg_name> </dev/lvm_partition>

Create logical volumes in volume group.

lvcreate -L <root_size_in_GiB>G <vg_name> -n root
lvcreate -l 100%FREE <vg_name> -n home

Check status.

lvmdiskscan
pvdisplay
vgdisplay
lvdisplay

By default, ext4 reserves 5% of the filesystem's blocks for root processes.
Only ~50GiB are required for this purpose, so <reserved_block_%> can be lowered to meet this target.

mkfs.fat -F 32 </dev/efi_system_partition> -n GRUB
mkfs.ext4 </dev/root_partition> -L ARCH
mkfs.ext4 -m <reserved_block_%> </dev/home_partition> -L HOME

Mount the filesystems into the live environment to generate the fstab and install Arch Linux.

mount </dev/root_partition> /mnt
mount --mkdir </dev/efi_system_partition> /mnt/boot
mount --mkdir </dev/home_partition> /mnt/home

mkswap -U clear --size <swap_size_in_GiB>G --file /mnt/swapfile

swapon /mnt/swapfile

Install Arch Linux.

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware linux-headers

Install utilities.

pacstrap -K /mnt e2fsprogs firewalld networkmanager vim w3m tmux

Optional: Install onboard audio firmware with pacstrap -K sof-firmware

Generate fstab based on mounted filesystems.

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

The next few sections depend on being chrooted into the mounted filesystem.

arch-chroot /mnt

Edit /etc/pacman.conf with desired settings.

<Region> and <City> are dependent on location.

ln -srf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Region>/<City> /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

Edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other desired locales.

Generate locales.

locale-gen

Create /etc/locale.conf with default locale.

Create /etc/hostname with a desired hostname in it.

Add the lvm2 module to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.

Installing the lvm2 userspace tools will automatically run mkinitcpio -P.

pacman -Syu lvm2

Create a password for root.

passwd

Install the appropriate ucode package for the CPU.
pacman -Syu amd-ucode OR pacman -Syu intel-ucode

Install bootloader packages.

pacman -Syu grub efibootmgr

Install bootloader.

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=arch

Modify bootloader configuration.

Generate bootloader configuration.

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

exit
reboot