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Install arch linux with zfs root

  1. Obtain latest ISO from archlinux.org and burn it to an ISO
  2. Boot up and change / size \
    1. mount a swap partition
    2. mount -o remount,size=16G /run/archiso/cowspace
  3. Add zfs support
  4. Create zfs pool
  5. Create file systems
  6. Export/Import pool and mount file systems
  7. Install the system
    1. pacstrap /mnt linux linux-headers linux-firmware base base-devel vim amd-ucode networkmanager sudo openssh rsync
  8. Create a normal user and add to sudoers/wheel group
    1. user add -G wheel toms
    2. passwd toms
    3. mkdir -p ~toms
    4. passwd toms
    5. su - toms
  9. Install paru
    1. sudo pacman -S –needed base-devel git
    2. cd paru
    3. makepkg -si
  10. Install zfs support
    1. paru -S linux linux-headers zfs-utils
    2. paru -S zfs-dkms
    3. zgenhostid -f 0x00bab10c

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