Installing Arch Linux Using Arch Anywhere – Part 1

by Davoud Teimouri · Published 03/03/2017 · Updated 02/09/2024

Arch Linux is one of most popular Linux distributions and one of most updated Linux distributions.

Arch Linux has no graphical or automatic installer for installation and installing Arch Linux is not simple for most new users.

During installation, you have to do initialize disk, create partitions, configure boot-loader and other configurations manually. So you need to know enough about Linux. If you know, what are you doing, it would be wonderful experience but if not, it will be dark dream!

Now, what’s solution to gain experience of working with most updated Linux for beginner users?

Answer, you can use Arch Anywhere to install Arch Linux.

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What’s Arch Anywhere?

Arch Anywhere contains a script to give you ability to install Arch Linux with very customization and of course, all things will be automated.

Key Features

Automatic mirror-list update
Automatic + Manual partitioning (option for encryption)
Full base + base-devel Arch Linux
LTS, GreSec, and latest Kernel Support
Long list of desktops + window managers
Optional additinal software from official Arch repos
Fully custom Arch Linux install

Arch Anywhere be able to automatic partitioning for you, here is supported methods:

Full drive automatic partitioning with optional SWAP partition
Full drive automatic partitioning full luks on LVM encryption for root and tmp partition with optional enctypted SWAP partition
Manual partition (advanced users) with your choice of partitioning tool: cfdisk, fdisk, gdisk, parted

It offers the below boot-loader and it can configure the boot-loader for you: