I recently installed Arch Linux on my Pi Zero, it also uses FAT32 for the boot partition. I did the initial setup the way you described. Check out https://archl

I recently installed Arch Linux on my Pi Zero, it also uses FAT32 for the boot partition. I did the initial setup the way you described. Check out https://archlinuxarm.org/ https://archlinuxarm.org/ , it's pretty great.