The easiest way to install archlinux on raspberry PI.
now you need to input these command promotes.
dd if=/home/xx/Downloads/archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=2M
then
you need to plug the SD card into raspberry Pi
Then boot
By default, the user name and password are both "root"
After logging in, you need to check out all your devices with command promotes :
fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
then you will find there are two partitions down there by default for archlinux installation.
The first one is /dev/mmcblk0p1 which is the "/boot" folder whose format is fat32.
The second partition is /dev/mmcblk0p2 which is the "/" folder whose format is ext4.
Now we need to use the rest free space of the SD card disk.
So, we input those commands :
cfdisk /dev/mmcblk0
Using cfdisk to mange the partition label of the SD card.
Also we could use fdisk. But fdisk needs us to give the specific bytes to make the partition room, which is too precise.
Anyway both cfdisk and fdisk make sense.
now we make a 1GB room for swap, and the rest for folder "/home"
TIPS:
Now if we use
fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
we will only see two partitions those which are /dev/mmcblk0p1 and /dev/mmcblk0p2.
We can't see the other two partitions /dev/mmcblk0p3, /dev/mmcblk0p4 those which we have divided from the rest free space of the SD card.
All we need is to reboot the raspberry pi.
reboot
then
fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
[root@alarmpi ~]# fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 486192 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c21e5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 * 2048 194559 96256 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 194560 3862527 1833984 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3 3862528 5862527 1000000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/mmcblk0p4 5862528 31116287 12626880 83 Linux
now we can get all those partitions.
Now we need to have swap and format the partition /dev/mmcblk0p4
mkswap /dev/mmcblk0p3
swapon /dev/mmcblk0p3
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p4
now we need to edit the /etc/fstab
make it like this:
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p3 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p4 /home ext4 defaults 0 0
Alright.
Now we make it.
We need to upgrade the archlinux syntactically.
So we need to edit the file
vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
then, uncomment the links below if the place is supposed near your location.
then
pacman -Sy
so we need to uncomment /etc/locale.gen if there is a locale you want to have. :)
And
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai /etc/localtime
(because i am in China, so it's Shanghai. It depends on where you are.)
Also, you could change /etc/hostname, or never mind.
Now you need to add a new user
you could use :
adduser
and you could install sudo
pacman -S sudo
Then edit the file sudoers by commands
sudo visudo
then,
add the line "USER ALL = (ALL) ALL" below the line root ALL = (ALL) ALL
Now reboot your computer. It is a clean and fast one.
Or you want to install video driver or get into serial console.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Raspberry#Installation
At the bottom of the page, those reference maybe help.
Cheers!