paritions:
    /boot   2GB         vfat
    SWAP    10GB        SWAP
    /       80GB        ext4
    /home   the rest    ext4

1. Instead of creating a BIOS boot partition, create an EFI system partition. Make this a 2GB partition, with type EF00.
2. When formatting the partition, use command mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1
3. When mounting other partitions, also mount your EFI partition, after making a directory /mnt/boot for it.
4. When generating an fstab file, ensure that your EFI partition is included in the output file.
5. Before installing GRUB, install efibootmgr with pacman (pacman -S efibootmgr).
6. When installing the GRUB bootloader, use the command grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB


vim
sudo
xorg
xinit
git
build tools to make dwm etc.



Colour Man Pages using "less" pager : add to .bashrc
	
	export MANPAGER="less -R --use-color -Dd+r -Du+b" 
	export MANROFFOPT="-P -c"


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update 5/8/25

I got tired of systemd causing unexplained suspend during the night despite
not having anything I could find that would explain it. And these night-time
suspend/sleep caused kernel panic and the need to power-cycle to get it
running again. Normal "suspend" operation worked correcly if I was
instigating myself, or via xfce4-power-manager, but I couldn't track down
what was triggering the suspend when unattended, lid closed and on AC power.


So I re-installed Devuan, sans systemd, and prior to trying Arch I found
Devuan worked correctly in all aspects....

Arch was a nice diversion for a few days, but I don't want to spend hours
of my life looking for niggly systemd "features/bugs"...