Install Essential Packages §

The base of Arch Linux is installed using the pacstrap command. This will take a long time depending on your internet connection, so your should probably update your mirrors first.

Update Keyring §

Depending on how outdated your Arch Linux ISO is, you may need to force update the archlinux-keyring before you pacstrap.

Note: Normally, partial updates are a bad idea, but it doesn’t really matter if you break the Arch Linux installation environment

pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

Run pacstrap §

Pacstrap will install the base packages to your system

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

You can add any other packages to this command. I generally add my text editor of choice, networking tools, and grub as well.

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware \
              vim zsh \
              networkmanager \