This is a quick guide for installing the Arch Linux distribution without too much PITA. Thus, I am not not encrypting the disk with LUKS, but [here][3]'s a tutorial.
My system is an old laptop with an Intel chipset, 4GB of RAM, 500GB of disk and no VGA. EFI boot is not supported, but [here][2]'s another good tutorial covering this case.
This guide is based in a few others which I have used myself.They have a set of much more complete instructions regarding each steps of the installation process. If this is your first time installing Arch, I'd start with one of the following as I did.