Configuration

Installation steps 10-14: Configure timezone, locale, hostname, and user accounts. See Installation for an overview.

10. Set Timezone

List available timezones

ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Set your timezone (example: US Eastern)

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime

Sync hardware clock

hwclock --systohc

Enable and generate your locale:

Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 (or your preferred locale)

sed -i 's/#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen

Generate locales

locale-gen

Set system locale

echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

For other locales, edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment the lines you need before running locale-gen.

Set your hostname (replace myhostname with your preferred name):

Set hostname

echo "myhostname" > /etc/hostname

Create the hosts file

cat > /etc/hosts << 'EOF'
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost
127.0.1.1   myhostname.localdomain myhostname
EOF

Set the root password

passwd

Create your user (replace yourname with your username):

Create user with home directory and add to wheel group

useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash yourname

Set user password

passwd yourname

Enable sudo for the wheel group:

Create sudoers file for wheel group

echo '%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/wheel && chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/wheel

Continue to Bootloader & Finish (steps 15-18).