I’m using only one virtual hard drive, so the name of virtual hard drive is /dev/sda. Set US keyboard as the keyboard layout: loadkeys us ping -c6 If you install Arch Linux on a real laptop, you can use the following command to connect to Wi-Fi networks. You will be automatically logged in as the root user.Ĭheck if you can access Internet in this virtual machine with the following command. Choose the first option so we can install Arch Linux in UEFI mode. Go to the Storage settings and add Arch Linux ISO image to the virtual optical drive before starting virtual machine, or you will be dropped into UEFI shell. Install Arch Linux with UEFI Firmware in Virtualbox Select System on the left pane, then tick on Enable EFI and hit the OK button. To enable UEFI, go to the settings window of your virtual machine.

Enable UEFI in Virtualboxįirst, create a virtual machine in Virtualbox. In this tutorial, I’m going to simulate a UEFI boot in virtualbox and install Arch Linux in it.

But once you successfully install Arch Linux on your computer, it’s actually easy to use.

The installation process is kind of difficult for new Linux users. It’s a rolling release, which means there’s no new version to upgrade to. Arch Linux is one of my favourite Linux distros.

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