![]() ![]() Select New option and give your VM a name, select the type as Arch Linux 64-bit and allocate at least 2GB of RAM to the VM This is easily done using the VirtualBox interface. We then chroot into our would-be new root make some changes such as selecting languages, keyboard mapping, timezone and selecting hardware clock and we boot into the newly installed system getting rid of the. ![]() Next, we carve a bootable partition from our virtual hard drive and install the base arch linux system on top of it. We would begin by first booting the Arch iso for our virtual machine. Instead we will just use the prepackaged binaries to create our new /(root) environment One difference from the Gentoo Installation will be that it is going to be much much quicker since we are not going to compile the kernel and other utilities from scratch. This is a great way to experiment and, once you are confident enough, you can go ahead and install it on bare metal, if you like. The distribution is light enough to work inside a Virtual Machine and we would not have to worry with specific hardware driver issues. ![]() Similar to our Gentoo Installation this setup uses VirtualBox for a risk-free installation experience. However, having an Arch Linux installation to tinker with and understand the Linux environment a little better is always useful. Most new users would probably prefer an out of the box solution like Debian or Fedora. ![]()
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