UEFI

• turn off Secure Boot

boot from USB stick

• insert USB stick
• press F12

initial settings

loadkeys jp106
setfont ter-128b
timedatectl

WiFi Settings

iwctl
[iwd]# device list
[iwd]# station wlan0 scan
[iwd]# station wlan0 get-networks
[iwd]# station wlan0 connect FooSSID

ping ping.archlinux.org

format Disk

type 1 is EFI System. type 19 is swap.

fdisk /dev/nvme0n1
p
d
3
n
3
w

mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1

mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
mount --mkdir /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
swapon /dev/nvme0n1p2

Install and settings up linux

vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
locale-gen
echo LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
echo KEYMAP=jp106 > /etc/vconsole.conf
echo wu5k3 > /etc/hostname
vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1    localhost
::1    localhost
127.0.1.1    wu5k3.localdomain    wu5k3

pacman -S grub
pacman -S efibootmgr
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=grub
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

passwd
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash superdog
passwd superdog

pacman -S sudo
visudo

pacman -S iwd
sudo systemctl enable --now iwd
sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved

pacman -S terminus-font
echo 'FONT=ter-128b' | sudo tee -a /etc/vconsole.conf

exit
reboot

and settings for me...

sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts noto-fonts-extra ttf-dejavu
sudo pacman -S mesa mesa-utils 
sudo pacman -S plasma-meta sddm
sudo systemctl enable sddm

sudo pacman -S powerdevil

sudo systemctl enable sddm

sudo pacman -S power-profiles-daemon
sudo systemctl enable --now power-profiles-daemon

Network

sudo vim /etc/iwd/main.conf

[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true

sudo systemctl restart iwd

sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved
sudo ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

Skip GRUB loader select

vim /etc/default/brub

GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

install japanese input systems

sudo pacman -S fcitx5-im fcitx5-mozc

Power Saving

sudo pacman -S tlp tlp-rdw
sudo systemctl enable --now tlp

Enable sound

sudo pacman -S rsync

download sof-bin-2025.05.1.tar.gz from following site.

https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/releases

tar zxf sof-bin-2023.09.tar.gz
cd sof-bin-2023.09
sudo mv /lib/firmware/intel/sof* some_backup_location/
sudo ./install.sh

sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo reboot

Links

• https://wiki.archlinux.jp/index.php/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89