For Manjaro 20.0.3
This is how to do a minimal installation of Manjaro. This a simple installation guide which uses the entire disk.
setup
1 Prepare Installation
3 Partition Disk
Automatic Partitioning BIOS & UEFI
Mount Partitions
ext4 mkfs.ext4 -q
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3 Install CLI System
Install Base Packages
Install Base
dialogue choose linux-ltsAdditional kernel modules
dialogue choose noneInstall Network Drivers
select 1 Auto-install free drivers
2 Install Bootloader
3 Configure Base
1 Generate FSTAB
fstabgen -U -p
2 Set Hostname
- choose a hostname4 Set Timezone and Clock
, select the correct time zone, then choose UTC5 Set Root Password
set a root password 6 Add new user(s)
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6 Done
When the machine is rebooted, login as root and execute the following commands
pacman -Rsc lvm2 systemctl enable dhclient@$(grep ^en /proc/net/dev|cut -d: -f1).service
Reboot again. Congratulation, you have now the smallest Manjaro system possible.
In this example we use bspwm.
As user execute the following commands
pacman -S xorg # choose default=all pacman -S bspwm sxhkd xorg-init xterm rofi install -Dm644 /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc install -Dm755 /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/bspwmrc ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc sed -ie s/dmenu_run/'rofi -show run'/g ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc sed -ie s/urxvt/xterm/g ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc echo "exec bspwm" >~/.xinitrc
Then reboot, login as user and execute startx
. Once X has launched press Super
(or Windows key) + Return
to launch xterm