--- title: How to install CachyOS manually, the Arch Linux way with... description: A step-by-step guide to installing CachyOS manually via the command line, following the Arch Linux installation approach. Covers disk partitioning with gdisk,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-install-cachyos-manually-the-arch-linux-way-with-lvm-and-encryption-4jeb2v5gk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to install CachyOS manually, the Arch Linux way with LVM and encryption | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to installing CachyOS manually via the command line, following the Arch Linux installation approach. Covers disk partitioning with gdisk,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-install-cachyos-manually-the-arch-linux-way-with-lvm-and-encryption-4jeb2v5gk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4jEB2v5gk.png og:image:alt: How to install CachyOS manually, the Arch Linux way with LVM and encryption og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to install CachyOS manually, the Arch Linux way with LVM and encryption **[All Things Open](https://daily.dev/sources/allthingsopen)** · 20 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to installing CachyOS manually via the command line, following the Arch Linux installation approach. Covers disk partitioning with gdisk, LUKS encryption setup, LVM configuration with separate root and home logical volumes, bootstrapping the base system with pacstrap, configuring CPU-optimized CachyOS repositories, installing the linux-cachyos kernel, setting up mkinitcpio with encryption and LVM hooks, and configuring systemd-boot as the UEFI bootloader. Aimed at users who want more control than the Calamares GUI installer provides. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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