#Install virtualbox arch linux install
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Now we can preview our new partitions with “p” and if we are happy write the table “w”, note that the partitions are called “/dev/sda1” and “/dev/sda2”, make note of this for latter. Same as before really, but this time we specify “2” for the second partition and accept the defaults for start and end sectors to take up the remainder of the drive. Here I’m setting “n” for new partition table, “p” for primary, “1” for 1st partition, then accept the default for the start sector, finally “+10G” (this is all one word, it just slipped over the screen on the screenshot) to specify that we want this first partition to take up half our drive, we could probably make this less ( “+6G”?) if you wanted more space for the home. **NOTE** if at any time you want to back out just hit “q”! fdisk /dev/sdaįdisk will present us with some options. So assuming your drive is sda we’ll use fdisk to make our new partitions. Now we use the “lsblk” command to check the name of the disk we are going to partition, in my case its “sda” (this is important), note I can tell that because its 20Gb big (remember we set that before). Ping -c 3 If you get a path not found error, check the host connection (then check the beginners guide if that doesn’t work)! Otherwise you’ll exchange some packets with google to verify everything is working dandy. Lets check by pinging google, the “-c 3” flag just says to do it three times, if you forget it just to kill ping. A great thing about using a VM is that we don’t have to fiddle with wireless (it can be a pain) as the host just provides the link as if it was wired (remember for this to work the host must be connected to the internet). Secondly, lets check that the internet is working. Click “start” and we should get a boot screen, press enter (boot into Arch) and after a few seconds we should have a flashing cursor.īingo! Now I’m pretty much following along with the beginners guide.įirstly, I’m assuming you are using a standard keyboard layout (if not follow the guide). Select the folder path and click the auto-mount check box.

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The will allow the VM to boot from the ISO rather than well nothing! Finally, lets setup a shared folder with the host. Now for the storage settings we can virtually stick our downloaded ISO into a imaginary CD-drive.Ĭlick the ‘add CD’ button and point the file option to your freshly downloaded Arch ISO. Display setting, might as well enable 3D. On the tab setup bi-directional clipboard and file sharing.Īlso tick the “show top of screen” or you’ll get driven crazy by the dropup menu destroying your life! On the system setting change the processors to suite your system. Press “Create” and now we can setup the options on our new virtual machine.

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An alternative would be to do a minimum base install and then hook-up a shared folder to the host and keep data there (more on that latter). Even though the drive will dynamically allocate space, we need to set the maximum size, at 8gb (the default on my machine) we will probably run out of space pretty quickly in real world desktop use. Select the top option on the next screen (VDI) then allow it to be dynamically allocated. We want to create a virtual hard drive now (the 8gb default is probably a little too frugal). Set the memory to something sensible (1gb), remember you need to save some for the host, so stay away from the red section of the sliding bar. Typing Arch into the name box should populate the other options.

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Download the latest Arch ISO, remember to use a torrent to save the arch servers bandwidth (and its a good FU to the MPAA). Hopefully this step by step guide will help someone out.

With the excellent Arch beginners guide installation wiki things really are not that difficult, however, there certainly are some got-yas (hair pulling), especially when installing inside a VM.

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And with virtualisation software like virtualbox, we don’t have to worry about turning our computer into a fancy doorstop while we madly google a solution to that frozen black screen.

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Installing Arch is incredibly satisfying (maybe thats code for frustrating) as it really does introduce you to the flexibility offered by the modular nature of Linux.