First you will have an option to select a bootloader, which most people prefer as GRUB. Once done go back to the main menu, we have come to the screen of selecting packages.
Next select the partition and its mountpoint and labels (if any) as shown by screenshot s below. Select it, select to choose by dev as it will be easier. Now we have to come to next option, thats manually configure mount-points where we will specify what partition will be used for what. Use arrow keys up an down to move through partitions, and right and left to move through below options. I allocated 4 GB for root partition, 1 GB for swap and rest for home. Once in a cfdisk program, you can create a new partition using “new” option from, below menus and you will be asked to specify a size in bytes. Note that all the info you will need to install will be displayed on screen, so read all the messages carefully before proceeding.
#ARCH LINUX INSTALL SLACK PC#
If you are new to Linux, I highly recommend to install it in a virtual machine before trying out to boot your PC from it.Īfter booting in, the first screen you will probably see is this. Burn the image file on a CD or load it up in VirtualBox and boot from it. Here is the list of Linux download managers that you can use for faster downloading, or if you are from India, head over to Arch Linux Indian mirror. If you are on a slow connection or a wireless, use the core image which I prefer and have used here. If you have a fast internet connection that easily gets configured, download the net-install one as it will download the packages from Arch Linux archives and you will have latest versions of packages.
There you will find two types of images, one is core image, another is net-install image. To start your work, you will need a CD installation image of Arch Linux from their Download page.
#ARCH LINUX INSTALL SLACK FULL#
I have installed Arch Linux as my primary OS, and it takes 176 mB of RAM with a full fledged Gnome 3 desktop and 260 mB of RAM with servers and a workstation running. If you plan to install Gnome and/or KDE, atleast 1 gB of RAM is recommended, though that will be more than enough. If you plan to also install a graphical desktop environment (which more users would), I suggest you have atleast 512 mB of RAM for some light DEs such as XFCE, LXDE or OpenBox. 256 megabytes of RAM will be more than enough for the command line install or a home server.
#ARCH LINUX INSTALL SLACK HOW TO#
In part two, we will tell our readers as how to install and configure a graphical interface and a desktop environment to use it for your daily needs.Īrch Linux is a lightweight distribution and doesn’t require much state of art hardware to run on. After the base system is setup, you will have a full Linux installation running, but without the GUI or DE. In part one or this part, you will learn about how to install the basic system. As Arch aims to be a user centric, minimalist distro, we have covered this tutorial in two parts. Today in this post we will cover as how to install the base system.
In our previous post, we have covered as why should you install Arch Linux and what are its best features that sets it apart from other distros.