{"id":219,"date":"2020-05-17T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2020-05-17T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:00:47","slug":"arch-linux-virtualbox-install-on-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/17\/arch-linux-virtualbox-install-on-osx\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Linux virtualbox install on OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If your Virtualbox screen is too small, go to preferences and adjust screen scaling to 300% (or your choice). You&#8217;ll need to restart any running virtual machine to see the effect of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>fdisk \/dev\/sda\n\n# inside fdisk\nn\np\nenter\nenter\nw\n\n# you should now out of fdisk and back in the shell\nmkfs.ext4 \/dev\/sda1\n\nwifi-menu\nping kernel.org\n\npacman -Syy\n\npacman -S reflector\nreflector -c \"US\" -f 12 -l 10 -n 12 --save \/etc\/pacman.d\/mirrorlist\n\nmount \/dev\/sda1 \/mnt\npacstrap \/mnt base linux linux-firmware vim nano\ngenfstab -U \/mnt >> \/mnt\/etc\/fstab\narch-chroot \/mnt\ntimedatectl list-timezones\ntimedatectl set-timezone &lt;your-time-zone-here>\n\n\n# i skipped this\nlocale-gen\necho LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > \/etc\/locale.conf\nexport LANG=en_GB.UTF-8\n\necho \"arch.metajack.org\" > \/etc\/hostname\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>largely from : <a href=\"https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/install-arch-linux\/\">https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/install-arch-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your Virtualbox screen is too small, go to preferences and adjust screen scaling to 300% (or your choice). You&#8217;ll need to restart any running virtual machine to see the effect of this. largely from : https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/install-arch-linux\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}