2016 Arch Linux EFI Install Guide Part 1 - Preparation and Disk Partitioning

This is the first of a series of guides I am putting up in regards to getting Arch Linux installed (via EFI in this setup)

PART 1: Preparation and Disk Partitioning

Preparation
-Items necessary
-Downloads necessary
-Details regarding enabling EFI mode via BIOS
-Details regarding booting from USB in EFI mode
-Verifying internet connectivity
-Verifying EFI mode is enabled

Disk Partitioning
-Finding all available drives
-Wiping the existing partition table
-Creating boot partition and the difference between EF00 and EF02 Hex codes
-Creating swap partition, the swap debate, choosing a swap size, and the swap 8200 hex code
-Creating root and home, the differences between them, and choosing whether to keep them on the same partition
-Telling linux which file systems to use for our partition

Full Guide:

[TheMio]

I have installed the OS, configured it and now it is fully operational entirely due to your tutorial series !!! THANK YOUUUU!!!!

[lemontop]

This is a great straightforward guide. You're awesome.

[jenniferbillings]

Thank you so much you are the only person who brought up the issue with 980 ti's the problem also exists with the 1080

[JerryKillian]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Partitioning for UEFI. Thanks for posting, I'll check out your other vids later.

[dqzk]

glad to see you're updating the guide, the 2015 one helped me through the tedious process of installing it, just a tip you should probably at least include a driver guide in the description for amd users on the 3rd part of the guide. had to go through some rough outdated guides to get working ones last time.

[ttavyy]

"From what I can tell (eg from the gdisk documentation), a future-proof GPT disk
partitioning scheme needs two special partitions: a BIOS boot partition
(gdisk code EF02) and an EFI System Partition (gdisk code EF00),
probably with the ESP as the first partition on the disk. The BIOS boot
partition is used to give the MBR bootloader somewhere that's guaranteed
safe to store its second stage code; the EFI System Partition is where
EFI bootloaders go (and where the BIOS will find them). I'm currently
planning to make these 4 Mbytes and 256 MBytes respectively. This is
probably overkill for both, especially since I don't plan to multiboot
several OSes on my machine."

[michaelhaaf]

13:05 when I type lsblk (or fdisk -l) at this stage, only my USB drive information is shown, not my computer harddrive. Does anyone know why this might be the case? having a hard time finding any information about this particular problem anywhere.

[davidm]

Great tutorial and reference. Many thanks for a job well done.

[jonathanleslie]

hi, when are you going to do a 2017 efi install guide? would love to see it.. many things changed.. i think.. love your videos

[dsniper]

thanks for sharing really appreciate it, will try again as last time i failed and gave up

[Leo-khademi]

best video about arch installation
thanks

[Stuffbox]

nomodeset ftw you cured a severe headache ty!

[harryliu]

Installation seemed to work for me. But got a bunch of usb errors when I tried to log in. I'm installing it on a PNY ssd using a usb stick.

[frN]

Hey! Why cant I setup my wifi? After I type "iw dev" nothing pops out, just empty.

[gp-]

I am creating partitions with cfdisk...
I am having following partitions...
boot(efi), root(ext4), home(ext4)..
for what partition should I enable the bootable flag??

[evilpub]

Holy shit this was so helpful thank you!!

[RickyRossFrew]

When partitioning, I have the option of secure wipe for fresh install. Will this option work with a Samsung ssd?

[mirlington_]

i failed at installing arch before. will i need to completely wipe everything to try again? if so how?

[MaNishSingh-pxsg]

I got error of EDD ( edd-off to disable?

[beat]

Is there an important difference between "mkfs.vfat" and "mkfs.fat -F32"? I've seen both used when making a filesystem on the efi boot partition.