This post summarizes how I install and dual-boot Arch GNU/Linux with Full-Disk Encryption alongside macOS. It is not meant to be a replacement for the -Installation +Installation Guide or the former -Beginner's +Beginner's Guide. Rather, it mostly serves as a small summary with a few useful notes about the gotchas.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ then come back!There are different ways of creating a bootable Arch USB, all
documented on the
-USB
+USB
flash installation media page on the Arch wiki, but the simplest
one is using dd if you already have access to another
UNIX system.
I won't dive into partitioning and instead, I will refer you to the
-Partitioning
+Partitioning
page of Arch wiki. Of the available partitioning tools, I personally
prefer cfdisk.
I use an -LVM +LVM on LUKS setup, where I set up LVM on top of the encrypted partition.
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ cryptsetup -v --cipher aes-xts-plain64 --key-size 512 --hash sha512 \where /dev/sdaX is the partition you created in the
last step (e.g. /dev/sda4). For more information about
the cryptsetup options, see the
-LUKS
+LUKS
encryption options.
Then we open the container:
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@ rebootCongratulations! You now have a minimal Arch installation.
At this point, I usually install my favorite AUR helper, -pacaur, then I -install the -mba6x_bl-dkms +pacaur, then +I install the +mba6x_bl-dkms backlight driver to fix the post suspend/resume issue where there's no brightness after waking up from suspend, and the only available brightness would be 100%.
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ pacaur -S mba6x_bl-dkmsCheck out the -General +General recommendations for more details.