#Install linux arch virtualbox install#
#Install linux arch virtualbox upgrade#
#Install linux arch virtualbox iso#

I live in China so I selected a mirror in China as my preferred mirror. To set your preferred mirror, copy that mirror address to the top of the mirror list. Select a mirror that is close to your location with the nano command line text editor. Mount the EFI system partition (/dev/sda1) under /mnt/boot/ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/ Make a boot directory on /dev/sda2 partition. qįormat /dev/sda1 as fat file system and /dev/sda2 as ext4 file system. Now, exit out of parted partition editor. 100% means this partition will use all remaining disk space because I’m not going to make a swap partition. Then run the following command to make a root partition, which will start from sector 1050625. Now if you run the print command again, you will see it has been converted to an EFI system partition. To make it an EFI system partition (ESP), we need to turn on the boot flag for this partition. You can see that the file system is fat32. (My virtual hard disk’s sector size is 512B both logically and physically.

This partition spans from sector 2048 to sector 1050624.

Run the following command to make a EFI system partition with 512MB space.

parted /dev/sdaĪn EFI system partition (ESP) is required for GPT disks. You can confirm it’s a GPT disk using this command: parted /dev/sda -l Run the following command to make a GPT style disk with the parted partition editor.

#Install linux arch virtualbox install#

Since we install Arch Linux on UEFI hardware, it’s better to partition the disk in GPT (GUID Partition Table) instead of in MBR (Master Boot Record). In the following screenshot, there are two disks: You can run the following command to find out the name of your hard drive. I’m using only one virtual hard drive, so the name of virtual hard drive is /dev/sda. Set US keyboard as the keyboard layout: loadkeys us ping -c6 If you install Arch Linux on a real laptop, you can use the following command to connect to Wi-Fi networks. You will be automatically logged in as the root user.Ĭheck if you can access Internet in this virtual machine with the following command. Choose the first option so we can install Arch Linux in UEFI mode.

#Install linux arch virtualbox iso#

Go to the Storage settings and add Arch Linux ISO image to the virtual optical drive before starting virtual machine, or you will be dropped into UEFI shell. Install Arch Linux with UEFI Firmware in Virtualbox Select System on the left pane, then tick on Enable EFI and hit the OK button. To enable UEFI, go to the settings window of your virtual machine. Enable UEFI in Virtualboxįirst, create a virtual machine in Virtualbox. In this tutorial, I’m going to simulate a UEFI boot in virtualbox and install Arch Linux in it. But once you successfully install Arch Linux on your computer, it’s actually easy to use. The installation process is kind of difficult for new Linux users.

#Install linux arch virtualbox upgrade#

It’s a rolling release, which means there’s no new version to upgrade to. Arch Linux is one of my favourite Linux distros.