Here is my way of installing Arch Linux onto my Thinkpad 240 box. And, this is my fifth time of doing so.

To prepare installation, I need to boot computer into Arch Linux installation environment, and setup partitions for Arch Linux.

I used UNetbootin and 2008.03-1 ftp installation ISO image (Archlinux-i686-2008.03-1-archboot.ftp.iso) to create an boot entry together with Windows XP.

Use

fdisk /dev/sda

to create new partitions

Input n, fdisk askes which type of partition to create, choose 2 (primary partition), assign 3 as partition id, and give +16M to it.

/dev/sda3 /boot 16M

Input n, choose 1 (extended partition), assign rest of the space to it.

Input n, assign +192M to the first sub-partition inside the extended partition.

Input n, assign the rest of space to the second sub-partition inside the extended partition.

/dev/sda5 swap 192M

/dev/sda6 / rest

Use

mke2fs /dev/sda3 

to create ext2 filesystem on sda3

Use

mkswap /dev/sda5 

to create swap filesystem on sda5

Use

mkreiserfs /dev/sda6 

to create reiserfs filesystem on sda6

ifconfig -a

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2

route add default gw 192.168.1.1

vi /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 208.67.222.222

cd /media

mkdir usb

mount /dev/sdb1 usb

cd usb

mount -o loop Arch*.core.iso /src

/arch/setup

choose installation media of cd or mounted file system

Set Filesystem Mountpoints

/dev/sda5 swap

/dev/sda6 /

/dev/sda3 /boot

"base" and "base-devel" are chosen.

No need to keep them in cache, since most (or all) of those packages need to be updated.

use 'hwdetect' for '/etc/rc.conf' and 'etc/mkinitcpio.conf'

all “no” for various booting options

TIMEZONE=”Asia/Saigon”
#KEYMAP="no-latin1.map.gz"
HOSTNAME=”fang.ntu.edu.vn”
eth0=”eth0 192.168.1.155 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255”
gateway=”default gw 192.168.1.1”
ROUTES=(gateway)

Add # at the line of /dev/fd0

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 203.113.168.1

Enter into it, but do nothing and exit, system will automatically generates locales.

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/

timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

reboot

Due to the error of upgrading klibc, a -f is used in the upgrade command, and the result showed that it has no consequence of using -f for the first system wide upgrade.

pacman -Syuf

pacman -S xorg xf86-video-neomagic

nano rc.conf

DAEMONS=(... hal ...)

pacman -S fluxbox

nano .initrc

exec startfluxbox

pacman -S slim

nano /etc/inittab

#id:3:initdefault
id:5:initdefault
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

useradd -m -G wheel wen
passwd wen
pacman -Sy
pacman -S sudo
nano /etc/sudoers

uncomment on %wheel line

%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Set default wm of new user to fluxbox

nano /home/wen/.xinitrc

exec startfluxbox

sudo pacman -S arora-git
nano ~/.fluxbox/usermenu

[exec] (Arora) {arora}

mkdir ~/builds
cd ~/builds
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/juffed/juffed.tar.gz
tar -xvzf juffed.tar.gz
rm juffed.tar.gz
cd juffed
makepkg -s
sudo pacman -U juffed-0.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
nano ~/.fluxbox/usermenu

[exec] (JuffEd) {juffed}

fluxbox-generate_menu

pacman -S lyx

I chose KBib over KBibTex, because KBib is maintained by Thach Nguyen, a person with a Vietnamese name.

cd ~/builds
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yazpp/yazpp.tar.gz
tar -xvzf yazpp.tar.gz
rm yazpp.tar.gz
cd yazpp
makepkg -s
sudo pacman -U yazpp-1.1.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

cd ~/builds
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kbib/kbib.tar.gz
tar -xvzf kbib.tar.gz
rm kbib.tar.gz
cd kbib
makepkg -s
sudo pacman -U kbib-0.6.4-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
nano ~/.fluxbox/usermenu

[exec] (KBib) {/opt/kde/bin/kbib}

fluxbox-generate_menu

pacman -S xpdf
fluxbox-generate_menu

pacman -S keepassx
nano ~/.fluxbox/usermenu

[exec] (KeePassX) {keepassx}

fluxbox-generate_menu

Download latest PKGBUILD file from CVS (http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/kde/kdesvn/?root=community&pathrev=CURRENT)

cd ~/builds/kdesvn
makepkg -s
sudo pacman -U kdesvn-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
nano ~/.fluxbox/usermenu

[exec] (Kdesvn) {kdesvn}

fluxbox-generate_menu

sudo pacman -S vpnc
sudo nano /etc/vpnc/uit.conf

IPSec gateway 129.242.233.180
IPSec ID student.uit.no
IPSec secret student.uit.no
Xauth username USERNAME
Xauth password PASSWORD
NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp

Krusader is used here.

sudo pacman -S krusader
fluxbox-generate_menu

sudo pacman -S qstardict
nano ~/.fluxbox/usermenu

[exec] (QStarDict) {qstardict}

Get "http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down2/index.php?down_format=StarDict" from http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down2/index.php?down_format=StarDict

mkdir -p ~/.stardict/dic
tar xzvf stardict-comn_dictd04_gcide-2.4.2.tar.bz2 -C ~/.stardict/dic

sudo pacman -S scim-pinyin
nano ~/.xinitrc

export XMODIFIERS=’@im=SCIM’
export GTK_IM_MODULE=”scim”
export QT_IM_MODULE=”scim”
scim -d
exec startfluxbox

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