Arch Linux virtualbox install on OSX

If your Virtualbox screen is too small, go to preferences and adjust screen scaling to 300% (or your choice). You’ll need to restart any running virtual machine to see the effect of this.

fdisk /dev/sda

# inside fdisk
n
p
enter
enter
w

# you should now out of fdisk and back in the shell
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

wifi-menu
ping kernel.org

pacman -Syy

pacman -S reflector
reflector -c "US" -f 12 -l 10 -n 12 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware vim nano
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
timedatectl list-timezones
timedatectl set-timezone <your-time-zone-here>


# i skipped this
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

echo "arch.metajack.org" > /etc/hostname

largely from : https://itsfoss.com/install-arch-linux/

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