This article will act as a looooong guide, which is goint to help you to install (and understand) Arch Linux with full disk encryption. I’m a Linux fan, and the main reason is because of its open source nature: I have been using it for years and I gotta say a lot has changed since the early days… If you remember re-compiling the kernel in order to install an application, you know what I’m talking about… Fortunately that does not happen anymore(?), so do not freak out, not yet :). Trust me, the lessons learned here are inmense!!! Introduction

So after booting, we have 2 different options:īoth cases are well documented here(1) and here(2)Īnyway, I would strongly recommend to follow this guide to understand what is going on and to polish your installation. “There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don’t.”Īrch has introduced a built-in installer (it is basically a python script) which can facilitate part of this process.

Let’s also walk together through some of the concepts involved in the amazing world of Linux. This post will act pretty much as a guide (a long one), in order to help you INSTALL and UNDERSTAND Arch Linux with full disk encryption.

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