Since I live in germany, I set my time zone and keyboard layout to it. This does not apply to the system language!

I am writing this guide while installing Arch in a virtual machine. Therefore my hard disk is /dev/sda and the hostname arch-vm.

1. Change the keyboard layout temporarily: loadkeys de-latin1
2. Update the system clock: timedatectl set-ntp true
3. Check where your disk lives: fdisk -l

• For IDE controllers: /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc
• For SATA controllers: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc
• For NVMe controllers: /dev/nvme0, /dev/nvme1

4. Create new partitions on your target drive: fdisk /dev/sda
5. enter g to create a new GPT partition table
6. enter n for a new partition and set the last vector to: +512M -> efi
7. enter n for a new partition and set the last vector to : +8192M -> swap
8. enter n for a new partition and leave everything blank (default) -> root
9. Change the partition types
10. enter t followed by 1 to select the efi partition and enter 1 to set the EFI System type
11. enter t followed by 2 to select the swap partition and enter 19 to set the Linux swap type
12. enter t followed by 3 to select the root partition and enter 24 to set the Linux root (x86-64) type
13. Enter w to write the partitions and exit fdisk.

tba