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See instructions on this Google Doc.

Pre-install (if dual booting with Windows)

• Windows
  • Disable hibernation in Windows (powercfg /hibernate on)
  • Resize Windows partition with Disk Management. (Sometimes this gets tricky with immovable files over in Windows. Forcing a defrag can help, but there are some system files that defrag won't move, and you'll need to move them yourself).
  • Set Windows to use UTC hardware clock time (instructions from here): reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" /v RealTimeIsUniversal /d 1 /t REG_QWORD /f

• UEFI/Secure Boot

  • In order to boot from the Arch USB, you will need to disable Secure Boot in the BIOS security tab.

  • Then, you can install a bootloader and set up Secure Boot. I have had good luck with rEFInd + shim.

    • rEFInd bootloader. You might want to restyle rEFInd by adding a theme such rEFInd-minimal-black-flat. I also changed timeout in /boot/EFI/refind/refind.conf to 5 seconds, and added default_selection Linux.
    • Install shim-signed and sbsigntools
    • refind-install --shim /usr/share/shim-signed/shimx64.efi --localkeys
    • # sbsign --key /etc/refind.d/keys/refind_local.key --cert /etc/refind.d/keys/refind_local.crt --output /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux warning: file-aligned section .text extends beyond end of file warning: checksum areas are greater than image size. Invalid section table? Signing Unsigned original image
    • If you want to add a boot entry for MokManager: efibootmgr --disk /dev/nvme0n1 --part 1 --create --label "MokManager" --loader /EFI/refind/mmx64.efi. Then re-run refind-install as above.
    • Once in MokManager add refind_local.cer to MoKList. refind_local.cer can be found inside a directory called keys in the rEFInd's installation directory, e.g. esp/EFI/refind/keys/refind_local.cer.

  • Enable virtualization in BIOS (otherwise you will see a message "kvm:disabled by bios")

Directions for fresh Arch install

Follow the wiki! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

• Set hostname: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide#Network_configuration
• passwd - Set the root password
• pacman -S sudo && visudo - Install and configure sudo.
• useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash jeremy && passwd jeremy && su jeremy - Create user and set their password.
• sudo pacman -S git && mkdir ~/gitting && cd ~/gitting && git clone https://github.com/jfly/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles - Checkout and cd into this repo!
• ./bootstrap-arch.sh - Bootstrap Arch Linux installation, installing all dependencies. Make sure this command succeeds!
• If you want fancy fonts, you might want to look into https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-win10/, which is a bit of an adventure to install.

Swap

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Swap_file_creation.

Printer

When actually adding printer, use ppd file from http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2240.

Bluetooth

Note: Dualbooting with bluetooth is a pain. See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/255510 and http://console.systems/2014/09/how-to-pair-low-energy-le-bluetooth.html for more details. I've created this dual-boot-bluetooth.py script to identify discrepancies between Linux and Windows, but it does not actually fix them yet. I'd like to improve it so it can do that.

Dropbox

• dropbox - Need to manually start dropbox and log in.