(Only configure date/time if you want to do so. I will be using”en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8″Įcho LANG=en_US.UTF -8 > /etc/nfĮxport LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Update System Clock Configure SystemĪrch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash Set System Language Pacstrap /mnt base base-devel Update System Mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot Install Arch Linux base system and devel Mkdir /mnt/boot /mnt/var /mnt/home Mount Boot Partition Select DOS and create partitions according to your need. Install Arch Linux in VM Ping Google to check internet connection. type “yes” and enter VM’s root password which we have set in step 2. Ssh we are connecting to this VM for first time, it will ask for adding our VM’s IP address to its known host’s list. Connect to Virtual machine over SSH via terminal (IP address of my virtual machine is 192.168.0.107) 6. Systemctl start sshd 5.Check IP address of virtual machine Create New Virtual Machine and boot into Arch LinuxĬheck if “permit root login” is present and uncommented in “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” And for demonstration I am going to install Arch in VM and going to ssh using my laptop’s terminal emulator.įor successfully installing Arch, type/ paste following commands in VM and terminal emulator. If you wish to install any graphical envoirment, just follow this Arch Wiki after rebooting your system.įor the purpose of writing this tutorial I am using archlinux-2017.10.01-x86_64 iso image.

Thus, in this tutorial, I am going to do an installation of Arch without any graphical enviroment. Today, while I was doing a fresh install of Arch for creating a file-server (yes I use rolling distros on servers), I felt why shouldn’t I write a tutorial about it. I know it’s not so smart idea, but the fact is it just works for me. I just boot into VM, configure SSH, then just remotely access the VM from my desktop computer and start the installation while doing other work on my desktop computer. So now-a-days, while doing a fresh installation of distro’s like Arch, Slackware, etc. Due to which when I start installing VM I just can’t do other work on same laptop.

The aim of writing this tutorial is that sometimes I need to do a fresh installation of Arch in Virtual Box, but the irony is I use a Dell Vostro 3445 notebook and it just has 4 GiB of RAM and a quad core AMD A6 CPU. Arch Linux is one of my favourite Operating Systems (after Gentoo) because it follows rolling release approach.

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