

Root login via ssh is disallowed for security reasons. Note, you must log in as a normal user, not root. This allows you to copy and paste commands from these instructions.

There is little benefit in Arch to having separate /home, etc partitions. the rest in a single partition mounted as /.500MB for /boot, partition type EFI (EF).When running base install, it is very convenient to ssh into the install environment from another machine so that you can copy/paste commands from the install instructions web page to the terminal: On an ARM system (like the Raspbery PI), see this site.On x86, run through the standard installation process first.The following documents how I install and configure Arch Linux - mainly just notes for myself so I can setup/rebuild a system very quickly.

Arch Linux + Xfce has been my desktop operating system of choice for a number of years now.
