Installing Arch-Part I

  1. Setting up the time zone using tzselect 
    Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
Please select a continent, ocean, "coord", or "TZ".
1) Africa
2) Americas
3) Antarctica
4) Asia
5) Atlantic Ocean
6) Australia
7) Europe
8) Indian Ocean
9) Pacific Ocean
10) coord - I want to use geographical coordinates.
11) TZ - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.
#? 4
Please select a country whose clocks agree with yours.
 1) Afghanistan 18) Israel 35) Palestine
 2) Armenia 19) Japan 36) Philippines
 ...
 14) India 31) Myanmar (Burma) 48) Uzbekistan
 15) Indonesia 32) Nepal 49) Vietnam
...
#?14

The following information has been given:

 India

Therefore TZ='Asia/Kolkata' will be used.
Local time is now: Thu May 26 05:36:19 IST 2016.
Universal Time is now: Thu May 26 00:06:19 UTC 2016.
Is the above information OK?
1) Yes
2) No

    Or you can even use the timedatectl command with set-timezone and set-time attributes.

  2. Creating a fresh ext4 filesystem for your Arch! 
    mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX$ 
#X and $ are the name & number of the desired partition.

    Be very careful with the partitioning and read the Arch Wifi carefully before formatting your partition.

  3.  mounting your new partition: 
    mount /dev/sdX$ /mnt
  4. Use the pacstrap script to install the base package group: 
    # pacstrap /mnt base
  5. Generating the fstab: 
    genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  6. chrooting into /mnt: 
    arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
  7. Selecting you keyboard using locale-gen