[yule]

Two things helped me a lot with my Archlinux installation:

1) I previously tried in a virtual machine 2) I had a second machine next to mine to look up stuff in the wiki and follow the installation guide.

[sirclueless]

I agree. Arch Linux configuration is educational and well worth the few hours it takes on your first try, but you should definitely have another computer with the wiki open while you do it.

[swasheck]

I can't recommend this configuration enough. The wiki is super-informative and got me out of many jams during setup.