This covers obtaining the ISO, connecting to Wi-Fi, partitioning, formatting, mounting, installing, setting up encryption and installing GRUB, in one article. Also includes some tips, like quickly mounting from install medium. Maybe this helps someone.
The biggest problem I have with full disk encryption is that there's still no way to include /boot into the BTRFS root partition for snapshotting. Having your kernel images separate from your system snapshots makes rolling back massively painful.
You might install an older kernel version from /var/cache/pacman/pkg and then regenerate the initramfs. If not using NVIDIA, it's very easy to have multiple kernels installed (e. g. linux, linux-lts) to have another option if one kernel causes trouble.
I'd generally recommend having the lts or mainline kernel additionally if you use custom kernels, like zen or self compiled
The biggest problem I have with full disk encryption is that there's still no way to include /boot into the BTRFS root partition for snapshotting. Having your kernel images separate from your system snapshots makes rolling back massively painful.
You might install an older kernel version from
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
and then regenerate the initramfs. If not using NVIDIA, it's very easy to have multiple kernels installed (e. g. linux, linux-lts) to have another option if one kernel causes trouble.I'd generally recommend having the lts or mainline kernel additionally if you use custom kernels, like zen or self compiled