Arch Linux video installation guide

Tips

General

• You can't press up or down to move in the menus in cfdisk
• Press space to select items in lists to select it: [ ] -> [*]
• Your swap space size should be double the amount of your RAM
• "pacman -Scc" will clear the cache of packages. This will save some hard drive space

Mirrors

Don't know which mirror to choose? Use the list below to choose one that is close to you (taken from the Arch Linux wiki)

Australia

• ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/archlinux/
• ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/

Austria

• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/archlinux/

Belgium

• ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/archlinux.org/

Brazil

• ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/archlinux

Canada

• ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/

Czech Republic

• ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/arch/

Estonia

• ftp://ftp.estpak.ee/pub/archlinux/

France

• ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/archlinux/
• ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux
• ftp://mir2.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux
• http://mir.archlinux.fr/
• ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/

Germany

• ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/
• ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org/i686/
• ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/archlinux

Great Britain

• http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/
• ftp://mirrors.uk2.net/pub/archlinux/

Greece

• ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/archlinux/

Hungary

• ftp://ftp.mfa.kfki.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/

Ireland

• ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/

Israel

• http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/archlinux/

Italy

• ftp://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/archlinux/

Netherlands

• ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/distributions/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/

Norway

• http://arch.likbilen.com/

Poland

• ftp://mirror.icis.pcz.pl/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.piotrkosoft.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/

Portugal

• ftp://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/archlinux/

Romania

• ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/archlinux.org/

Russia

• ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/
• http://archlinux.freeside.ru/

Sweden

• ftp://ftp.ds.hj.se/pub/os/linux/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.gigabit.nu/

Switzerland

• ftp://archlinux.puzzle.ch/

Turkey

• http://server.elsistech.com/archlinux/

Ukraine

• ftp://hell.org.ua/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ArchLinux/

United States

• ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/
• ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/
• http://archlinux.unixheads.org/
• ftp://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/
• ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/
• ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/
• ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/
• http://holmes.umflint.edu/archlinux/
• http://mirror.neotuli.net/
• ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/
• http://schlunix.org/archlinux/
• http://mirror.umoss.org/archlinux/

Vietnam

• ftp://ftp.indochinalinux.com/archlinux/