Arch Linux is a light and fast distribution whose concept is to remain as simple as possible. In the same purpose and in order to give free choice to the user, this script performs minimal installation and only the required packages will be installed. Pretty simple and customizable, some options are supported like AUR Helper, linux kernel, GPU driver, window manager or desktop environment. According to the chosen one and in order to get complete support additional packages may be required. For more information on archboot, see the wiki.

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Requirements

The only thing you need is one USB bootable device of Arch Linux.

You can obviously try it in a virtual machine first...

Usage

1. Reboot computer, open Boot Selection Menu and boot on the USB device

2. Select Boot Arch Linux (x86_64) on the install menu of Arch Linux

• Use loadkeys to set keyboard layout if needed (e.q., for azerty run loqdkeys fr).

3. Download Arch Linux installer wget tiny.cc/archboot

4. Run Arch Linux installer sh archboot

Option	Argument	Description	Example
-l, --lang	language	set installer language	sh archboot -l french
-k, --keyboard	keyboard	run loadkeys on start	sh archboot -k azerty
-h, --help		show help and usage	sh archboot --help

• --lang sets only installer language (archboot supports all languages available in Arch Linux).

• --keyboard supports as well country codes, language codes and keyboard layouts.

Wiki

• Language code
• Timezone code
• Custom Partitioning
• Custom Linux Kernel
• Desktop Environment
• Display Manager
• Hardware Video Acceleration
• List of installed Packages
• AUR Helper
• Contributing

Logs

Take a look in /var/log/archboot folder for installation logfiles.

Awesome Contributors

• @At1768 german translation

Official Documentation

• Arch Linux Installation Guide
• USB Flash Installation Media
• Arch Linux Applications

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