From official site: “The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.”

UPDATE: Step 1-12 can be reduced to a script, and I disabled the network in conf file.

1. Start with fdisk to partition the SD card:

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   fdisk -l #to id sd card shown as sdX or mm**

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   umount /dev/sdX fdisk /dev/sdc

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   Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command.

2. At the fdisk prompt, delete old partitions and create a new one:
   1. Command (m for help): o Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xb6a9de4c.
   2. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 14.9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xb6a9de4c

   3. Command (m for help): n Partition type p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free) e extended (container for logical partitions) Select (default p): p Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1 First sector (2048-31116287, default 2048): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-31116287, default 31116287): +100M

      Created a new partition 1 of type ‘Linux’ and of size 100 MiB.

   4. Command (m for help): t Selected partition 1 Hex code (type L to list all codes): c If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x partitions, please see the fdisk documentation for additional information. Changed type of partition ‘Linux’ to ‘W95 FAT32 (LBA)’.

   5. Command (m for help): n Partition type p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free) e extended (container for logical partitions) Select (default p): p Partition number (2-4, default 2): 2 First sector (206848-31116287, default 206848): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (206848-31116287, default 31116287):

      Created a new partition 2 of type ‘Linux’ and of size 14.8 GiB.

   6. Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered. Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Re-reading the partition table failed.: Device or resource busy
3. Restart for fstable to take effects
4. Perform following steps as root, not sudo.

5. Create and mount the FAT filesystem:

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   sudo pacman -S dosfstools #for mkfs.vfat to work mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1 mkdir boot mount /dev/sdX1 boot

6. Create and mount the ext4 filesystem:

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   mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX2 mkdir root mount /dev/sdX2 root

7. Download and extract the root filesystem (as root, not via sudo):

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   wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz -C root sync

8. Move boot files to the first partition:

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   mv root/boot/* boot

9. Unmount the two partitions:

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   umount boot root

10. Insert the SD card into the Raspberry Pi, connect ethernet, and apply 5V power.
11. Start up Raspberry PI and you should be greeted with Arch Console, log in with root /root.

12. Just update your mirror list and type:

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    sudo pacman -Syy

    You have a Arch Linux system without GUI.

    

13. Install Graphic Display

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    pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit

14. The X.org driver for Raspberry Pi can be installed with the xf86-video-fbdev package:

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    pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev

15. Now it’s time to install your Desktop Environment. I’m going with XFCE4, you may go ahead and try something different if you want to.

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    sudo pacman -S xfce4

    Press ENTER for all it asks. After the installation check if you have a .xinitrc file in the directory:

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    ls -la nano .xinitrc

    Uncomment the line to start xfce4: exec startxfce4. Make it executable:

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    chmod +x .xinitrc

16. Slim login control

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    pacman -S slim systemctl start slim.service                // for startup entry systemctl enable slim.service         // and enable the service

    

17. Install the goodies of xfce4 and whatever package you need or want.

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    sudo pacman -S xfce4-goodies gcc firefox chromium

18. Install the guest-additions :

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    pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utlis

19. install sudo

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    pacman -S sudo

20. Add root access to new user

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    EDITOR=nano visudo # uncomment the line below to say %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

    Save and exit.

21. Ccreate a new user.

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    useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash "username" # Change the password of your own user: passwd "username"

22. add user to sudoer

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    EDITOR=nano visudo

    add: username ALL=(ALL) ALL save as .tmp file, then overwrite.

23. Reboot and you should be there!

    

24. Audio /Video

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    sudo pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-firmware alsa-lib alsa-plugins

25. install pacaur with following script

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    curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rumpelsepp/d646750910be19332753/raw/651393f258c41638fad4425473283e1d4e937ba4/install-pacaur.sh | bash

    Issue command “export EDITOR=nano” if editor variable unset error. https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur/issues/637

1. Format microSD card in fat32 format (Windows quickformat via right-click works fine for me).
2. Download NOOBS link
3. Plugin monitor via HDMI, USB keyboard and mouse
4. Plugin 5V USB power

5. Following on-screen instructions for installation (use keyboard shortcut to make selection if your mouse does not work at this point).

   

   

   

   

6. rasp-config to change setting (you can change later).

7. Update the system

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   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

8. Flash and firefox [codename:iceweasel]

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   sudo apt-get install iceweasel sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-gnash # flash-player sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin #java

   Note: both should work with Chromium and Firefox.

9. change root name from console

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   exec sudo -s cd / usermod -l newname -d /home/newname -m oldname

1. Minecraft coding
2. Python programming
3. Mathmatica
4. Scratch from MIT

5. GPIO control and monitoring, following is to make a blinking LED

   

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zks9mBtGtIY&feature=em-upload_owner

1. A few useful sites for ArchPi: http://archpi.dabase.com/ http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Raspberry_Pi http://elinux.org/ArchLinux_Install_Guide
2. RUN breakout 2 holes next LEDs onboard can be used for reset (link).
3. LED lights project with flashing (link)
4. An old IDE works fine with GPIO pin.
5. rpi-firmware update https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update
6. Turn Raspberry Pi into a survillance system with motioneyeOS

7. Kodi as an entertainment server with all possible media, instruction here, and arch wiki.

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   sudo pacman -S kodi #choose kodi-rbp