Hi, I’m from Poland, I’m starting my adventure with Arch Linux and I’m getting ready to install it on my laptop. My questions about locales, 1. whether in /etc/locale.conf uncomment the two languages en_US …and pl_PL … and generate locale-gen, maybe only one, en_US or pl_Pl and how to configure grub cp /usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo/boot/grub/locale/en.mo or pl.mo or both? Thank you in advance for the hints, best regards. Sorry for my English (
Welcome to the forum Leo!
I’m an ignorant burger, but I may be able to help.
When you go to edit /etc/locale.conf with vi, vim or nano (whichever you prefer), navigate to LANG=[your-choice] and uncomment it by removing the # sign at the start of the line.
You only need to uncomment 2, normally you would go with en_US.UTF-8. As I’m ignorant of other languages, I don’t know which other one you would need to uncomment, probably pl_PL.UTF-8 or something like that.
After you uncomment those, run the command:
locale-gen
The arch wiki has some pretty good steps on how to install arch though, I followed it myself back when I was a beginner and I thought it was pretty understandable if you read it carefully.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide
After that, you just set your hostname, generate initramfs and change your root password. To install grub, assuming your laptop is relatively new (running UEFI), you follow this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB
Note: assuming that /boot/efi is the folder where you mounted the partition formatted as vfat in the first part, where you formatted your disk. By this point you should have already done
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
Assuming you did everything correctly, all you need to do is that grub-install command.
Your English is fine.
Thank you for your answer, at the moment I am installing arch in a virtual box where I check various settings, but I am thinking of installing it as the basic system in my laptop. I will probably have many more questions and now I am starting another installation, this time with encryption. According to Jay’s guide, of course.