There have been minor changes in how Arch is installed since this video. The concepts are still the same, but you might want to watch this with the Arch Wiki installation guide open to check for differences (wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide). I may make an update video soon for the more recent installation.
Yeah, by looking through various video comments I was *finally* able to get Arch installed as it goes now, however when installing xorg (or using your config script) it just seems to get stuck, switching between ttys just stops it when I go back, I can't seem to find anything about this on google, do you have any ideas?
Btw most of us aren't virgins. Get new material, you're stuck in 1995. You're not special. You're empty and worthless. A disposable one-time use object in the shape of a human 😘😉
At 45:03, I mistyped. It should be LANG=en_US.UTF-8. That is, with an underscore between en and US. *not* a hyphen. For what to do after installing: th-cam.com/video/nSHOb8YU9Gw/w-d-xo.html
Here are some timecodes I watch this to much 4:03 explain block devices 5:21 make live USB 9:40 boot instructions 12:40 boot live USB 13:42 UEFI check 14:55 add network 15:40 sync time 17:10 partition storage 25:19 format storage 27:05 configure swap 28:31 mountstorage 30:51 install xX_ARCHLINUX_Xx 34:44 generate file system tab file 37:30 change root into install 38:48 NetworkManager 40:27 boot loader 42:47 password local.gen locale-gen local.conf LANG=end_US.UTF-8 45:31 set timezone set hostname in /etc/hostname exit root with exit unmont all with umount -R /mnt reboot pc with reboot That is all
I dont mean to be so offtopic but does anyone know of a way to log back into an instagram account? I was dumb lost my account password. I appreciate any help you can give me!
I am SO thankful I found this channel. Luke has helped me more through my Linux journey than anything/anyone else. Thank you my dude. Please keep up the good work for n00bs like me
6:55-7:10 is the Linux equivalent of standing at cliff's edge with one foot hanging off. You be careful, sir. It would be a shame to have a cat jump on your keyboard at such a moment. I don't even know if you have cats but I do and I would certainly be worried about one of them screwing me over.
Luke, I followed your example word for word and made my own Archlinux base. The I followed up with Derek Taylors openbox for arch and later went off on my own and installed the goodies that I wanted. You guys rock! I have a bug free, gorgeous dark themed install of archlinux and i've learned a whole bunch in the process of making it. You've earned a sub and a fan too.. thanks Luke
I'd like to thank you a lot. I've been through so many procedures to install ArchLinux and didn't understand half of what to do. Your video was simple, was informative. Thx again.
pacstrap 30:1430:56 Fstab 33:04 arch-chroot 37:25 misc (passwd, timezone, locale, hostname ) 42:42 locale 44:41 NOTE - the locale is actually "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" (mind the underscore!) After changing the /etc/locale.conf, type in "sudo locale-gen", reboot & type in "locale". No errors should come up.
love your larbs senpai I really appreciate you putting this out on a serious note, its really interesting to see how you've setup your system, im interested myself in mainly becoming less dependent on the mouse
I like the way you explained everything as you were doing it. So many tutorials just say "do this" and it's easy to get lost when you don't know WHY you are doing something. Thanks
This is by far the best arch linux installation video that I have followed that actually worked. Thank you so much for sharing this and I'm not sure yet whether you have already posted any other video on how to install a DE or something. I'll check that out. Cheers from Brazil.
Wow this is the first name, I've made an arch install work and mostly understood what you were explaining to us. Most videos are horrible as they go way to fast and require you to pause constantly, just to type commands. You actually explained what you were doing nice and slowly so i could take it all in and process it in my messy head. Now I don't actually need to use Manjaro to get an Arch Linux like experience but install Arch for real now> yes this may take longer but I now have satisfaction of knowing I installed it myself using commandline. Thank you ever so much for this @Luke Smith, maybe in the future i'll be brave enough to dip my toes into i3wm and then maybe LaTeX etc
had to sign in to give praise to Luke here. before he did work on mutt and - i believe vim - and i suppose other stuff. Luke, you are looking good and doing a better job than everyone else. ... and you are acting less effeminate. Luke opened a channel on Bitchute too. much love and great work.
I hope you will be so inclined to do a video about your amazing æsthetics! Your great desktop wallpapers and ascii text terminal banners. (Especially the quotes one with the face of the guy who says "the genius of linux is in its simplicity... it just takes a genius to understand how simple it is " Adding these things make it much more fun and comfortable to use command line linux. Thanks in advance!
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO USE ETHERNET AND USING WIFI-MENU DOESN'T WORK: Issue the command 'ip link'. This will list your internet interfaces. You'll see something like 'emp0s3'. This is your Ethernet Interface, because it starts with an E. You'll also see something like 'wls1'. This is your Wi-Fi Interface. Once you've found your Wi-Fi Interface, issue the command 'wifi-menu -o your Wi-Fi Interface here'. The -o tells Wifi-Menu what Interface to use. Connect to your Wi-Fi, and then follow the instructions of the video.
Excellent, Excellent, Excellent, of the Arch Linux manual install videos that I've seen, yours has been easily the most understandable and informative video of the bunch. Thanks Man.
The Arch UEFI install guide that Luke mentions is from user gloriouseggroll from the 2018 New Years stream. There should be a website if you do a quick search.
Nice video and explanation. The only video I found right now that do the installation in a real machine instead of virtualbox. I like how you made the font bigger so it helps when watching in a mobile or on a tv from a distance. Even though it is from last year it is still relevant. And I will be watching your other videos on setuping and maintaning the system. I was a Linux user for a long time. I stoped because my previous work but I am now resuming it and from all systems I tested, I love Arch Linux. Thank you very much.
In case someone got GNU Grub CLI after reboot, you should restart the installation, and just remount partitions and generate new fstab then change pacstrap to include; [pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware] . Source: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Install_essential_packages
150% of ram as swap is unnecessary for a typical user. I don't even know where he heard that from. I always heard 100% of ram as swap and that is if you want hibernation. You can even go with no swap and still be fine if you have like 8 GB of ram or more.
bunu The general rule USED to be RAMx2=swap, but that was back when computers typically had around 4GB max RAM. The rule sorta stuck but I never use it. Any more than 6GB of RAM, I wouldn't even use swap.
Best tutorial I've seen till now, but I'm having a problem. At the point where we were supposed to install the bootloader. I had to change the file system on my /boot partition to fat32 and make it bootable. And the rest went smoothly. After rebooting however. The system just keeps restarting when it get to the GRUB screen, over and over. I'm in legacy mode btw. Just for the record I started fresh. Made four partitions again, with the same set-up. Stoped before the part where I setup the mount points to ask this question, what should I do if I get the same issue?
He's running ffmpeg to record everything, I'm not sure how hot the X220 usually gets but ~90C seems about what I'd expect for a tiny laptop with generic thermal paste. 12GB of swap is retarded though. I have 6GB installed, I run Plasma and often have 100-200 tabs opened in Firefox. I have a swap partition just in case, but I've never seen more than ~50MB of usage on it. Since Luke uses i3 and generally a low memory footprint setup I'm certain the swap is literally never used.
ArchGirl no. there are no general rules of allocating swap space. better yet, use Zram for better performance. otherwise, swap is used only for two purposes, hibernation and avoid OOM. to understand your needs, you need to try it yourself with your daily dose. seriously, general rules are for people who are "linux first timers". other than that, ignore it.
From The Arch Linux Website : ----------------- `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required 2019-10-06 The base group has been replaced by a metapackage of the same name. We advise users to install this package (pacman -Syu base), as it is effectively mandatory from now on. Users requesting support are expected to be running a system with the base package. Addendum: Be aware that base as it stands does not currently contain: - A kernel - An editor ... and other software that you might expect. You will have to install these separately on new installations. ------------------- What this means: When installing you'll now need to install : base, linux (the kernel), linux-firmware and a text editor of your choice (nano or vim etc) at a minimum. You may also want base-devel, and appropriate networking and filesystem utilities. Check the Arch install guide on their wiki.
I was trying to do arch install for the first time today within Virtualbox and every time after reboot I got only "grub>" prompt. After 20 times of failed installation and comparing output of each command I realized that problem was in grub-mkconfig as it couldn't find kernel and initramfs. What I needed was to perform "pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware" instead of only base. So, as a random guess I did "pacstrap /mnt linux-lts linux-headers base" and after reboot there was no problem this time . There is not any info about this in any of the Q&A forums. Just after that I have checked Archwiki and there it is indeed mentioned that linux and linux-firmware packages to be installed along with base package. And now I was looking in the comment section if someone one encountered this before. I wish I had seen your comment earlier. Thank you.
5:36 dd actually stands for "copy and convert", but since cc was already used for the C compiler they went with dd instead. Edit: also I'm sure you know about this by now but adding bs=4M makes the transfer go much faster. It transfers in blocks of 4 MB instead of the default 1 sector (512 B).
For anyone getting the "This GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition" error when trying to install grub at 41:55, you're going to need to create an additional partition of 2MB and designate it as a BIOS_Boot partition for grub to install and work upon reboot. Easiest way I found was to set up your partitions like normal in fdisk at 17:20, but make your first partition the 2MB one, then add the rest as normal. To designate the partition as BIOS_boot, save and exit fdisk, then enter gdisk /dev/sdx. Once in gdisk, change the partition type to ef02, which sets it as the BIOS_boot partition. I'm sure there's a better way of doing it but that's how I got it working.
This is the most thorough install guide i have seen good job and thank you. hopefully when i do it this time I don't have an issue installing grub. I'm sure it was just because I didn't have the right partition scheme.
I've already had Arch Linux installed for a few months (using the It'sFOSS guide along side the guide on the Arch wiki, with some Ubuntu experience), but I'm absolutely gonna watch this, because I could not do it again without pulling up those guides.
I want to thank you for your video. You got me mostly there, except for the proper drivers for my AMD graphics card - that took some research. But it worked, and then I followed someone else's video and I now have a fully functioning (and very fast) KDE Plasma install of Arch. Much appreciated. I'm writing now from inside Arch.
Already at the dd command and I learn something new :D was not aware of status="progress". Nice! Gonna finish watching later. Probably the best arch install video guide/tutor to date
With dd : I've always (from version 3.24 on) used status=progress (without the " "). It works the same. Why change to su before? In the video you ones typed sda. If your cat had walked on the kbd then, you'd have had a big problem. Just sudo dd ..... gives you the time to reread before typing your password and execute the irreversible . hda , hdb etc stands for hard-disk (from the old IDE days) The s replaced the h for scsi-devices (which sata is as well). Good video though! I'm subscribed and it's been a while i wanted to take the time to watch the full video.
Nice video. Couple of things: in my experience, it's very much worth installing and running "reflector" before the pacstrap command to speed up the download and installation of base and base-devel. Also, at 45:15,. you mistyped en_US.UTF-8 (you put a dash instead of underscore).
+1 for reflector. Nothing sucks more than watching your tight, lightweight system install at a snail's pace because the mirror pacman happened to choose is a commodore 64 box sitting on some opium den's coffee table in Hong Kong.
This was very handy, thanks. Mainly I used the second half, as I have 4 hard drives, with the main boot drive having Xubuntu and windows already on it. So I created a partition on one of the others, and installed Arch there (skipping over your partitioning and grub instructions). I then used grub-customizer in Xubuntu, and it found the partition and included it in the boot list. So now I have Arch to play with, w/oi disturbing the other OS's.
Thanks man, that video was awesome! I've been a subscriber for quite a while and was using antergos so far. Unfortunately I messed up my system today and decided to finally switch to arch. Love your content, keep t up man.
i got errors because of this as well, after some troubleshooting once i switched it back to '_' ran 'locale-gen' as root, and rebooted it worked just fine
I fully disagree with your opinion on preferring CSM/BIOS booting over UEFI booting. You are providing a disservice to people with a new UEFI computer by advising them they should install with an MBR and disable UEFI booting. I also want to add that you should not assume the block device (on regular x86 PCs) is always called /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, sdc etc. Here is why: NVMe drives follow a different naming scheme. Not everyone is using old Thinkpads to run Arch Linux. Maybe you should also try a modern machine. 14:20 _"I am going to put in a link in the description for another install video where they show you how to install on a UEFI device."_ I don't see this link in the description?
bought a laptop a few years back, was UEFI, first thing I did was switch it to legacy boot and never switched it back since. To consumers, UEFI does 2 things, make the system boot 0.3 seconds faster, and store a Windows 8/10 product key instead of a sticker. To Linux users, it causes a whole buncha issues. I installed Arch on UEFI once, it was hell, won't do it again.
You're giving yourself limited partitioning options by doing that. I understand that you might do it if you don't want to learn how UEFI works (which isn't really that complicated), but don't tell others to do it without telling them about the disadvantages. there aren't really any issues with UEFI except for having to learn about something new. Secure boot is a feature you can turn if if you want. UEFI doesn't handle windows product keys. UEFI doesn't cause any issues. Maybe you didn't understand something. What kind of issues do you think it causes?
Digital Insan1ty your advice makes no sense. BIOS (we should say legacy boot, not bios, since it can be confused with bios motherboard and bios bootloader) has no relation with partitioning. you can install bios or uefi bootloader using GPT/MBR. and linux could care less about primary or logical partition. UEFI boot on MBR also only requires one primary partition to set the EFI system which the Extensible Firmware Interface file will be loaded by UEFI bootloader. you still have the option to make 3 extended partitions which can hold to like 256 partitions. and indeed, to some linux distro, UEFI boot is not supported (puppy linux for example) and there are some people who have trouble installing arch-like distribution using UEFI bootloaders. (just google it) if a mobo supports dual firmware bootloaders, give no fuck to legacy or uefi booting. just make sure you you know how to type "(insert mobo series) boot uefi or legacy" in google before installing an OS.
Thank you so much for posting this. I am such a Arch n00b that I didn't realize that there was a difference with UEFI. It turns out, that is why I couldn't install Arch on my laptop all of the times I have tried it before. Thanks to you mentioning this, I realized that would probably apply to my computer so I checked out another video and it turned out it was.
Used Arch for 2 years. Learned a lot from it - most of what i know about linux world (thanks to its robustness and absolutely the best archwiki). It was fast, it was robust, it had many software and very new packages. But it had a one problem ... unreliable updates - they tend to break things. Sometimes some minor one like automounting, resolution or tv tuner driver and sometimes bigger like entire Xorg, sound or NTFS mounting. Last time i was using Arch i did most stupid thing - updated it at the end of the day, just before turning off pc. In case of Arch it was really serious sin, i learned to do it only if i had time to fix some things. Next time i was turning it on i needed PC badly for some work and offcourse some bad things happend. At first they didnt seem serious - my network speed just has been limited to 100kbs - some bug in network drivers and its cooperation with kernel. I tried to rollback update, but haste is not a good advisor and ended with no X and chrooting from live CD. But i had dualboot with Windows loaded it up and ... that moment became a breaking point - after almost 6 years with linuxes i threw them off for 3 years. I came back 2 months ago, first with Fedora, then with OpenSUSE and finally with Mint KDE which i used as my first linux distro. And i LOVE it! Its easy, it has everything i want, it popular so dont have problems with installing things from out of repositories, even h264 works one EVERY browser (not Firefox only like on fedora or suse). It just works. I always wondered why such person like Linus Torvalrds dont use Arch, Gentoo, Slackware or something like that but something very easy like Fedora or Mint. It seemed to me natural enviroment to what he is doing. Now, as a developer, husband and parent i fully understand why...
For swap you could choose to use a swap file instead of a swap partition. you can create a swap file with dd: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1K count=4M status=progress The above command will create a swap file of 4GiB, you should be fine with 2 or 4 GiB The size of the swap file is the product of bs and count K means 1024 bytes M means 1024*1024 bytes 1K * 1M = 1GiB 1K * 4M = 4GiB Set a Linux swap area on the file: mkswap /swap Specify swap file: swapon /swap genfstab will detect swap space and provide output you can append to /etc/fstab
What can I say? Im spanish and ur the only one person that explain good all the stuff for everyone person that wanna study and learn more about Unix and Linux thats año I can say thanks so much brother.
lost+found is a folder where fsck puts items it can't reconcile to files. So traditionally if you had a filesystem corruption but fsck was able to fix it, you might end up with some files in lost+found. They'd be named as numbers, which were the inode numbers, and the contents was usually just part of a file. These days most modern filesystems, including ext4, are journalled meaning they can usually recover to a consistent point, meaning you're less likely to see anything in lost+found. lost+found goes all the way back to unix filesystems.
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About having root and home in different partitions: Good thing about having them on the same partition is you don't need to know in advance how much space your programs need to have because you can just move your data from the home partition if your drive is full. If you decide you want 50 GB for your root instead of 25 GB after installation with the two partition solution, well, good luck (it's not impossible to change it but it's way bigger PitA than the one partition solution).
Only me who get stuck at the grub boot loader? Believe I have done something wrong but do not know what. Tried to fix it by using grub to find it but was not successful. Edit: Installed os-prober and re-did the grub boot loader stuff and everything worked out great! Ty
Hey dude, thanks for teaching me the fundamental basics of Arch, without this video I would have stayed with Manjaro (not to be rude of the Manjaro team, they did an amazing job, I just like having *control* over everything I do). Although your video isn't all that in-depth with how things could be customized. Like using extended partitions for the Root and Home partitions, and setting bootable partitions in case some BIOSs need it, or even trying to boot without a Boot partition, it still helped me open the door to how Linux in general works. Searching across the web just to figure-out how minute things work in Linux. Even though I've failed to install Arch a few times (tried installing it with UEFI), I'm not giving up until I see a working Desktop environment. So I thank you for properly introducing me to the world of Linux, I'm really starting to enjoy this OS for what it could be!
Thanks Luke, I finally got it booting and understand what these commands actually do! Some changes: I needed to pacstrap linux, linux-firmware and generate the grub config
I listened to your video a couple times and today for the first time ever I tried following your tutorial to install my own Arch Linux. I have definitely learned a lot but on this first attempt of mine the grub bootloader did not configure properly, apparently.. I have been here before but sadly I have as of yet not mastered the art of grub whispering, I need only repair this small snafu and hopefully I will be able to move on with my new os installation 😁
You may want to use nano for text editing as you considered at some point for these tutorials. All of the steps are explained very well and I assume even someone very new to Linux can follow them. But the one thing people for sure will struggle with is using vim if they don't know it. They might even screw up some files in the process of trying to edit a file. Or just explain what keys you are pressing In vim as well :)
Looking at their Conky, System monitor or whatever, the average user will rarely see any swap being used. If you are running 8Gb or more of RAM, 4Gb of swap is more than enough. Any application that heavily relies on swap can generally create it's own temporary swap space as needed.
Holy crap. Arch install is WAY easier than it used to be. I had stopped bothering after they got rid of the original men-driven install script a few years ago because there were too many steps. "Simple" doesn't always mean "worth the trouble."
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Protip: If you have multiple hard drives on your machine, try running lsblk -So NAME,MODEL,SERIAL,SIZE This will list the model and serial numbers of all your physical drives (which are the same as the numbers printed by the manufacturer on the label on the physical drive). You really don't want to accidentally repartition the wrong drive and erase all your rare Pepes, causing much sadness. So this may help you not make that mistake, by identifying which block device name corresponds to which physical drive in your PC. Installing Arch is not difficult at all. The only fussy part is setting up hard drive partitions in the terminal. It would be nice if they gave you a nicer UI for that. The rest of it is pretty easy.
For anyone having problems during grub-install saying something about not having bios, i had to redo everything and this time set the type for the boot partition in fdisk to number 4 which is bios boot. after fdisk /dev/sda, i set up the partitions and then hit t, then 4.
adding the bs=xxM parameter to dd will speed up the cloning process by optimizing i/o. These do quite well: 10M(USB2), 35M(USB3), 60M(5400rpm HDD) 512M(fills buffer 512M, then writes buffer, before filling it again. limited by r/w speed between two drives. (try: ibs=xxM obs=xxM))
13:00 - My laptop uses UEFI boot mode and I load the kernel as an EFI executable. If you want to do the same you can use a program called efibootmgr that is included in the arch installer. Create an ESP for a GPT partitioned disk: fdisk/gdisk: Create a partition with partition type EFI System (EFI System in fdisk or EF00 in gdisk) After creating the ESP, you must format it as FAT32: mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdxY mount ESP to /boot Modify your motherboard's boot entries with efibootmgr: efibootmgr --disk /dev/sdX --part Y --create --gpt --label "Arch Linux" --loader /vmlinuz-linux --unicode "root=/dev/sdBZ rw initrd=/initramfs-linux.img" Where /dev/sdX and Y are the disk and partition where the ESP is located. Change the root= parameter to reflect your Linux root (disk UUIDs can also be used) If you have an Intel CPU, install the intel-ucode package in addition, and enable microcode updates by adding initrd=/intel-ucode.img to the efibootmgr command above: ... --unicode "root=/dev/sdBZ rw initrd=/intel-ucode.img initrd=/initramfs-linux.img" Running efibootmgr without arguments will print boot information and bootorder e.g: BootCurrent: 0000 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 0000,2001,2002,2004 Boot0000* Arch Linux Boot2001* EFI USB Device Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM Boot3000* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk To set the boot order, run: efibootmgr --bootorder XXXX,XXXX You can find more information here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB
Reinstalled 3 times... finally realized I installed it correctly 3 times... hp bios just hates grub haha At least it works... And I can install it with out the wiki now haha
I've installed arch before but i didnt really know anything about it. Since I've gone to university and done my own research stuff. I understood all of this and it was awesome. nice plug at the end there
Updated video, also with drive encryption: th-cam.com/video/dI3bGeT31Bo/w-d-xo.html
>hates google so much that he pings his own website instead of google
baby steps to reduce the power of the botnet.
It's also a nice plug.
I ping xvideos
I have an alias to ping 127.0.0.1 what guys are you talking about
But still uploads to youtube XD
"Let's be clear about what we just did..." - That's very important - I love that you explain what's happening, it helps me learn - thank you
There have been minor changes in how Arch is installed since this video.
The concepts are still the same, but you might want to watch this with the Arch Wiki installation guide open to check for differences (wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide).
I may make an update video soon for the more recent installation.
Yeah, by looking through various video comments I was *finally* able to get Arch installed as it goes now, however when installing xorg (or using your config script) it just seems to get stuck, switching between ttys just stops it when I go back, I can't seem to find anything about this on google, do you have any ideas?
Would really appreciate it. I'm looking into getting arch up on a new system soon.
link is broken (extra ")" at end)
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide
with uefi version?
y tf do you have to install the kernel as a package now xd who wouldn't install a kernel
You know you are getting quality linux content when you see a bald guy with an amazing goatee.
Dr Robotnik
Steven Thacker Lmao, he really looks like him!
@@AkamiChannel The traitor :(
they trade hair for power and knowledge
And an hour long video.
Thank you for enabling me to descend further into my autism
Baahahaha...
Same
@Sir Meme I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, You are a Normie
Btw most of us aren't virgins. Get new material, you're stuck in 1995. You're not special. You're empty and worthless. A disposable one-time use object in the shape of a human 😘😉
@@BichaelStevens you made me cringe hard. weaboos are the disposable ones, you fucking filthy human being
At 45:03, I mistyped. It should be LANG=en_US.UTF-8. That is, with an underscore between en and US. *not* a hyphen.
For what to do after installing:
th-cam.com/video/nSHOb8YU9Gw/w-d-xo.html
14:20 Where's the UEFI install video? It's not in the description.
you should have used *ctl instead.. like timedatectl and localectl to change locale and timezone. do a ls /usr/bin/*ctl
I also cant find the link.
I accidentally deleted the fstab file after archroot and now the genfstab is not recognised... HOW TO FIX!! HELP
Installation was great thanks...
BUT can't access internet wifi-menu won't work HELP OUT PLS!!!
How do you tell if someone is using arch linux?
You don't. they'll tell you.
ClockworkHex Lol that part is true
Guilty.
@Yuukitsu N-nani? Btw i use kde neon .
I'm a vegan
Well.. You got me xD
11:21 - start in the prompt
14:54 - check the internet
15:42 - update clock
15:58 - partitioning
24:57 - formating
28:34 - mounting
30:27 - one command away .... lol
33:14 - Configure the system
god bless
Here are some timecodes
I watch this to much
4:03 explain block devices
5:21 make live USB
9:40 boot instructions
12:40 boot live USB
13:42 UEFI check
14:55 add network
15:40 sync time
17:10 partition storage
25:19 format storage
27:05 configure swap
28:31 mountstorage
30:51 install xX_ARCHLINUX_Xx
34:44 generate file system tab file
37:30 change root into install
38:48 NetworkManager
40:27 boot loader
42:47 password
local.gen
locale-gen
local.conf LANG=end_US.UTF-8
45:31 set timezone
set hostname in /etc/hostname
exit root with exit
unmont all with umount -R /mnt
reboot pc with reboot
That is all
URGENT! Read this:
lukesmith.xyz/deletion
yoo thats unfortunate, I hope it doesnt get deleted
“Inciting violence”... what the fuck is going on with the world anymore...
Why would the people enslaving others through addictive technology put up with the guy who tells everyone how and why to be free and self governed?
U trying to pwn me Luke?
I dont mean to be so offtopic but does anyone know of a way to log back into an instagram account?
I was dumb lost my account password. I appreciate any help you can give me!
I am SO thankful I found this channel. Luke has helped me more through my Linux journey than anything/anyone else. Thank you my dude. Please keep up the good work for n00bs like me
6:55-7:10 is the Linux equivalent of standing at cliff's edge with one foot hanging off. You be careful, sir. It would be a shame to have a cat jump on your keyboard at such a moment. I don't even know if you have cats but I do and I would certainly be worried about one of them screwing me over.
Just installed Arch a few days ago but thanks for your LARBS script, it's truly awesome!
Luke, I followed your example word for word and made my own Archlinux base. The I followed up with Derek Taylors openbox for arch and later went off on my own and installed the goodies that I wanted. You guys rock! I have a bug free, gorgeous dark themed install of archlinux and i've learned a whole bunch in the process of making it. You've earned a sub and a fan too.. thanks Luke
I'd like to thank you a lot. I've been through so many procedures to install ArchLinux and didn't understand half of what to do. Your video was simple, was informative. Thx again.
26:30 for some reason it made me chuckle when he came from the other side
I didn't notice but yah haha
I completely lost my shit and had to pause the video to laugh about it.
Dude, you're supposed to push the buttons with the pictures of food on 'em.
oh, hey Shrek!
Shrek, Skip was my favorite character in Jimmy Neutron.
You haven't said "Big Mkthankies from Mkspankies dude"
Oh, hi Mark.
Hows your sex life mark?
I did not hit her I did not!
You are tearing me apart, Linux!
pacstrap 30:14 30:56
Fstab 33:04
arch-chroot 37:25
misc (passwd, timezone, locale, hostname ) 42:42
locale 44:41 NOTE - the locale is actually "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" (mind the underscore!) After changing the /etc/locale.conf, type in "sudo locale-gen", reboot & type in "locale". No errors should come up.
About 44:41, I thought it was, thanks for confirming.
Instructions unclear, got dd stuck in sr0
Sun Instructions unclear, dd'ed sda
@@eduardoavila646 meme lord
Matt Thx man
Eduardo Avila oof
@@eduardoavila646 instructions unclear, rm -rf'd /
love your larbs senpai
I really appreciate you putting this out on a serious note, its really interesting to see how you've setup your system, im interested myself in mainly becoming less dependent on the mouse
watched second video on your channel, your love to the materia is big. SUBSCRIBED :3 thankyou for making such good content which helped me a lot!
Looking forward to the next video, in the series, as I am seriously thinking of installing Arch onto my test machine!
Luke such a hero recording this while burning at 95⁰ C
I like the way you explained everything as you were doing it. So many tutorials just say "do this" and it's easy to get lost when you don't know WHY you are doing something. Thanks
Excellent video Luke, I think this'll be great for beginners and vets alike.
This is by far the best arch linux installation video that I have followed that actually worked. Thank you so much for sharing this and I'm not sure yet whether you have already posted any other video on how to install a DE or something. I'll check that out.
Cheers from Brazil.
Full Gentoo install when?
i second that
He's probably dead by then... I mean if he's already making it
That might be a $1M/month incentive on his patreon lol
never
You don't need a tutorial for gentoo lol, just follow the handbook it's even easier than arch
Wow this is the first name, I've made an arch install work and mostly understood what you were explaining to us. Most videos are horrible as they go way to fast and require you to pause constantly, just to type commands. You actually explained what you were doing nice and slowly so i could take it all in and process it in my messy head. Now I don't actually need to use Manjaro to get an Arch Linux like experience but install Arch for real now> yes this may take longer but I now have satisfaction of knowing I installed it myself using commandline. Thank you ever so much for this @Luke Smith, maybe in the future i'll be brave enough to dip my toes into i3wm and then maybe LaTeX etc
had to sign in to give praise to Luke here. before he did work on mutt and - i believe vim - and i suppose other stuff.
Luke, you are looking good and doing a better job than everyone else. ... and you are acting less effeminate. Luke opened a channel on Bitchute too. much love and great work.
I hope you will be so inclined to do a video about your amazing æsthetics! Your great desktop wallpapers and ascii text terminal banners. (Especially the quotes one with the face of the guy who says "the genius of linux is in its simplicity... it just takes a genius to understand how simple it is "
Adding these things make it much more fun and comfortable to use command line linux. Thanks in advance!
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO USE ETHERNET AND USING WIFI-MENU DOESN'T WORK:
Issue the command 'ip link'. This will list your internet interfaces. You'll see something like 'emp0s3'. This is your Ethernet Interface, because it starts with an E. You'll also see something like 'wls1'. This is your Wi-Fi Interface.
Once you've found your Wi-Fi Interface, issue the command 'wifi-menu -o your Wi-Fi Interface here'. The -o tells Wifi-Menu what Interface to use. Connect to your Wi-Fi, and then follow the instructions of the video.
mount and chroot and pacman -S dialog
can i use usb modem connection ?
Thank you BASED piggle rig
Excellent, Excellent, Excellent, of the Arch Linux manual install videos that I've seen, yours has been easily the most understandable and informative video of the bunch. Thanks Man.
And to think
I almost convinced myself that outside world was worth visiting
oh no. no outie world for this guy.
time to arch
You didn't put the tutorial for UEFI in the description.
just create an uefi part in fat32 mount in /mnt/boot/efi (it need like 256 Mo)
Don't forget to take the packet for the grub, (efibootmgr)
UEFI is bloat
I have no idea why, but if u set bios to boot Uefi but never Legacy, it loads uefi. It does install uefi on every distro I've tried.
The Arch UEFI install guide that Luke mentions is from user gloriouseggroll from the 2018 New Years stream. There should be a website if you do a quick search.
@Roger Gordon Thank you!
Nice video and explanation. The only video I found right now that do the installation in a real machine instead of virtualbox. I like how you made the font bigger so it helps when watching in a mobile or on a tv from a distance. Even though it is from last year it is still relevant. And I will be watching your other videos on setuping and maintaning the system. I was a Linux user for a long time. I stoped because my previous work but I am now resuming it and from all systems I tested, I love Arch Linux. Thank you very much.
Just found your channel! Love Linux, love the videos!
In case someone got GNU Grub CLI after reboot, you should restart the installation, and just remount partitions and generate new fstab then change pacstrap to include; [pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware] . Source: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Install_essential_packages
>95 C CPU temp
>12 GB of swap
150% of ram as swap is unnecessary for a typical user. I don't even know where he heard that from. I always heard 100% of ram as swap and that is if you want hibernation. You can even go with no swap and still be fine if you have like 8 GB of ram or more.
bunu The general rule USED to be RAMx2=swap, but that was back when computers typically had around 4GB max RAM. The rule sorta stuck but I never use it. Any more than 6GB of RAM, I wouldn't even use swap.
Best tutorial I've seen till now, but I'm having a problem. At the point where we were supposed to install the bootloader. I had to change the file system on my /boot partition to fat32 and make it bootable. And the rest went smoothly. After rebooting however. The system just keeps restarting when it get to the GRUB screen, over and over. I'm in legacy mode btw.
Just for the record I started fresh. Made four partitions again, with the same set-up. Stoped before the part where I setup the mount points to ask this question, what should I do if I get the same issue?
He's running ffmpeg to record everything, I'm not sure how hot the X220 usually gets but ~90C seems about what I'd expect for a tiny laptop with generic thermal paste.
12GB of swap is retarded though. I have 6GB installed, I run Plasma and often have 100-200 tabs opened in Firefox. I have a swap partition just in case, but I've never seen more than ~50MB of usage on it. Since Luke uses i3 and generally a low memory footprint setup I'm certain the swap is literally never used.
ArchGirl no. there are no general rules of allocating swap space. better yet, use Zram for better performance.
otherwise, swap is used only for two purposes, hibernation and avoid OOM. to understand your needs, you need to try it yourself with your daily dose.
seriously, general rules are for people who are "linux first timers". other than that, ignore it.
From The Arch Linux Website :
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`base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required
2019-10-06
The base group has been replaced by a metapackage of the same name. We advise users to install this package (pacman -Syu base), as it is effectively mandatory from now on.
Users requesting support are expected to be running a system with the base package.
Addendum:
Be aware that base as it stands does not currently contain:
- A kernel
- An editor
... and other software that you might expect. You will have to install these separately on new installations.
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What this means: When installing you'll now need to install : base, linux (the kernel), linux-firmware and a text editor of your choice (nano or vim etc) at a minimum. You may also want base-devel, and appropriate networking and filesystem utilities. Check the Arch install guide on their wiki.
I was trying to do arch install for the first time today within Virtualbox and every time after reboot I got only "grub>" prompt. After 20 times of failed installation and comparing output of each command I realized that problem was in grub-mkconfig as it couldn't find kernel and initramfs. What I needed was to perform "pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware" instead of only base. So, as a random guess I did "pacstrap /mnt linux-lts linux-headers base" and after reboot there was no problem this time . There is not any info about this in any of the Q&A forums. Just after that I have checked Archwiki and there it is indeed mentioned that linux and linux-firmware packages to be installed along with base package. And now I was looking in the comment section if someone one encountered this before. I wish I had seen your comment earlier. Thank you.
5:36 dd actually stands for "copy and convert", but since cc was already used for the C compiler they went with dd instead.
Edit: also I'm sure you know about this by now but adding bs=4M makes the transfer go much faster. It transfers in blocks of 4 MB instead of the default 1 sector (512 B).
Hi! Just came here after successful installation of Arch to thank You.
This is a lot easier than i thought it would be.
For anyone getting the "This GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition" error when trying to install grub at 41:55, you're going to need to create an additional partition of 2MB and designate it as a BIOS_Boot partition for grub to install and work upon reboot. Easiest way I found was to set up your partitions like normal in fdisk at 17:20, but make your first partition the 2MB one, then add the rest as normal. To designate the partition as BIOS_boot, save and exit fdisk, then enter gdisk /dev/sdx. Once in gdisk, change the partition type to ef02, which sets it as the BIOS_boot partition. I'm sure there's a better way of doing it but that's how I got it working.
yeah i got an error at 41:55 too im gonna skip that maybe it will work for my Virtual Machine
This is the most thorough install guide i have seen good job and thank you. hopefully when i do it this time I don't have an issue installing grub. I'm sure it was just because I didn't have the right partition scheme.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video!
For anyone wondering, dd actually means "convert and copy", but the cc command was already reserved by the C compiler.
I was curious, thanks! Donvert and Dopy.
I've already had Arch Linux installed for a few months (using the It'sFOSS guide along side the guide on the Arch wiki, with some Ubuntu experience), but I'm absolutely gonna watch this, because I could not do it again without pulling up those guides.
Switching from Debian to Arch, this video and LARBS really helped me out. Thanks Luke.
I want to thank you for your video. You got me mostly there, except for the proper drivers for my AMD graphics card - that took some research. But it worked, and then I followed someone else's video and I now have a fully functioning (and very fast) KDE Plasma install of Arch. Much appreciated. I'm writing now from inside Arch.
Already at the dd command and I learn something new :D was not aware of status="progress". Nice! Gonna finish watching later. Probably the best arch install video guide/tutor to date
With dd : I've always (from version 3.24 on) used status=progress (without the " "). It works the same.
Why change to su before? In the video you ones typed sda. If your cat had walked on the kbd then, you'd have had a big problem. Just sudo dd ..... gives you the time to reread before typing your password and execute the irreversible .
hda , hdb etc stands for hard-disk (from the old IDE days) The s replaced the h for scsi-devices (which sata is as well).
Good video though! I'm subscribed and it's been a while i wanted to take the time to watch the full video.
Important! When creating a bootable usb with dd, first make sure to unmount the usb drive if it's mounted.
This is actually more easier than the "other easy tutorials"
Nice video. Couple of things: in my experience, it's very much worth installing and running "reflector" before the pacstrap command to speed up the download and installation of base and base-devel. Also, at 45:15,. you mistyped en_US.UTF-8 (you put a dash instead of underscore).
+1 for reflector. Nothing sucks more than watching your tight, lightweight system install at a snail's pace because the mirror pacman happened to choose is a commodore 64 box sitting on some opium den's coffee table in Hong Kong.
Etienne Soucy Lmao! It's so true!
I told myself to do this before pacstrapping... and I forgot :sob:
Guess I'll watch a movie now.
This was very handy, thanks. Mainly I used the second half, as I have 4 hard drives, with the main boot drive having Xubuntu and windows already on it. So I created a partition on one of the others, and installed Arch there (skipping over your partitioning and grub instructions). I then used grub-customizer in Xubuntu, and it found the partition and included it in the boot list. So now I have Arch to play with, w/oi disturbing the other OS's.
Got this to work with systemd-boot on an EFI system. This was such a rewarding process thanks for the help!
I'm installing it on a chromebook...
My USB is bigger than the drive
I think the chrombooks use emmc storage... Not a hdd. Emmc is the same stuff they use on raspberry pi
@@mikebolton2388 you know what I mean, but I'm editing it
@@fanficAddict404 Ya. Kinda neat to think that a chrome book is just a larger rapsperry pi.
@@mikebolton2388 that has a soldered in drive so you cant increase the space on it.
@@fanficAddict404 soldered emmc. That blows for a 200 dollar machine
Just installed ArchLinux on my machine using this video and reading the official manual! #thanks
Nice video...saved on my playlist when i need an arch linux refresher...good stuff
Thanks man, that video was awesome!
I've been a subscriber for quite a while and was using antergos so far. Unfortunately I messed up my system today and decided to finally switch to arch.
Love your content, keep t up man.
Around 45:20
Shouldn't there be an underscore such that it's:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
?
Yes indeed.
Yes. I got some errors cuz of that, it even screwed up i3.
i got errors because of this as well, after some troubleshooting once i switched it back to '_' ran 'locale-gen' as root, and rebooted it worked just fine
I fully disagree with your opinion on preferring CSM/BIOS booting over UEFI booting. You are providing a disservice to people with a new UEFI computer by advising them they should install with an MBR and disable UEFI booting. I also want to add that you should not assume the block device (on regular x86 PCs) is always called /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, sdc etc. Here is why: NVMe drives follow a different naming scheme. Not everyone is using old Thinkpads to run Arch Linux. Maybe you should also try a modern machine.
14:20 _"I am going to put in a link in the description for another install video where they show you how to install on a UEFI device."_ I don't see this link in the description?
bought a laptop a few years back, was UEFI, first thing I did was switch it to legacy boot and never switched it back since. To consumers, UEFI does 2 things, make the system boot 0.3 seconds faster, and store a Windows 8/10 product key instead of a sticker. To Linux users, it causes a whole buncha issues. I installed Arch on UEFI once, it was hell, won't do it again.
You're giving yourself limited partitioning options by doing that. I understand that you might do it if you don't want to learn how UEFI works (which isn't really that complicated), but don't tell others to do it without telling them about the disadvantages. there aren't really any issues with UEFI except for having to learn about something new. Secure boot is a feature you can turn if if you want. UEFI doesn't handle windows product keys. UEFI doesn't cause any issues. Maybe you didn't understand something. What kind of issues do you think it causes?
Digital Insan1ty your advice makes no sense. BIOS (we should say legacy boot, not bios, since it can be confused with bios motherboard and bios bootloader) has no relation with partitioning. you can install bios or uefi bootloader using GPT/MBR.
and linux could care less about primary or logical partition. UEFI boot on MBR also only requires one primary partition to set the EFI system which the Extensible Firmware Interface file will be loaded by UEFI bootloader. you still have the option to make 3 extended partitions which can hold to like 256 partitions.
and indeed, to some linux distro, UEFI boot is not supported (puppy linux for example) and there are some people who have trouble installing arch-like distribution using UEFI bootloaders. (just google it)
if a mobo supports dual firmware bootloaders, give no fuck to legacy or uefi booting. just make sure you you know how to type "(insert mobo series) boot uefi or legacy" in google before installing an OS.
Thank you so much for posting this. I am such a Arch n00b that I didn't realize that there was a difference with UEFI. It turns out, that is why I couldn't install Arch on my laptop all of the times I have tried it before. Thanks to you mentioning this, I realized that would probably apply to my computer so I checked out another video and it turned out it was.
Used Arch for 2 years. Learned a lot from it - most of what i know about linux world (thanks to its robustness and absolutely the best archwiki). It was fast, it was robust, it had many software and very new packages. But it had a one problem ... unreliable updates - they tend to break things. Sometimes some minor one like automounting, resolution or tv tuner driver and sometimes bigger like entire Xorg, sound or NTFS mounting. Last time i was using Arch i did most stupid thing - updated it at the end of the day, just before turning off pc. In case of Arch it was really serious sin, i learned to do it only if i had time to fix some things. Next time i was turning it on i needed PC badly for some work and offcourse some bad things happend. At first they didnt seem serious - my network speed just has been limited to 100kbs - some bug in network drivers and its cooperation with kernel. I tried to rollback update, but haste is not a good advisor and ended with no X and chrooting from live CD. But i had dualboot with Windows loaded it up and ... that moment became a breaking point - after almost 6 years with linuxes i threw them off for 3 years. I came back 2 months ago, first with Fedora, then with OpenSUSE and finally with Mint KDE which i used as my first linux distro. And i LOVE it! Its easy, it has everything i want, it popular so dont have problems with installing things from out of repositories, even h264 works one EVERY browser (not Firefox only like on fedora or suse). It just works. I always wondered why such person like Linus Torvalrds dont use Arch, Gentoo, Slackware or something like that but something very easy like Fedora or Mint. It seemed to me natural enviroment to what he is doing. Now, as a developer, husband and parent i fully understand why...
Better late than never. Thank you. Straight to the point no bs, interesting and follow ups as promised. Subscribed.
For swap you could choose to use a swap file instead of a swap partition.
you can create a swap file with dd:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1K count=4M status=progress
The above command will create a swap file of 4GiB, you should be fine with 2 or 4 GiB
The size of the swap file is the product of bs and count
K means 1024 bytes
M means 1024*1024 bytes
1K * 1M = 1GiB
1K * 4M = 4GiB
Set a Linux swap area on the file:
mkswap /swap
Specify swap file:
swapon /swap
genfstab will detect swap space and provide output you can append to /etc/fstab
16:37 the reason that I'm watching this video again
What can I say? Im spanish and ur the only one person that explain good all the stuff for everyone person that wanna study and learn more about Unix and Linux thats año I can say thanks so much brother.
"Is this machine running Linux?"
"No, this is Patrick"
Arch/Ark done, now it's time for Gentoo and later on LFS/BLFS/ALFS/CLFS!
Thanks Sir. Appreciate for all the explanation. When you know what you doing and why, it's always helpful to understand and remember.
Really appreciate such detailed installation guide. Thank you.
Fun fact: 2018 was 4 years ago
Fun fact: your comment was 2 years ago
lost+found is a folder where fsck puts items it can't reconcile to files. So traditionally if you had a filesystem corruption but fsck was able to fix it, you might end up with some files in lost+found. They'd be named as numbers, which were the inode numbers, and the contents was usually just part of a file. These days most modern filesystems, including ext4, are journalled meaning they can usually recover to a consistent point, meaning you're less likely to see anything in lost+found. lost+found goes all the way back to unix filesystems.
About having root and home in different partitions: Good thing about having them on the same partition is you don't need to know in advance how much space your programs need to have because you can just move your data from the home partition if your drive is full. If you decide you want 50 GB for your root instead of 25 GB after installation with the two partition solution, well, good luck (it's not impossible to change it but it's way bigger PitA than the one partition solution).
you got me into arch from ubuntu! waiting for the second part of this series !!!
Honestly, thanks for your video, it's very clear and easy to understand I like you video!(Ultimate guide for installing ArchLinux)
Only me who get stuck at the grub boot loader? Believe I have done something wrong but do not know what. Tried to fix it by using grub to find it but was not successful.
Edit: Installed os-prober and re-did the grub boot loader stuff and everything worked out great! Ty
Hey dude, thanks for teaching me the fundamental basics of Arch, without this video I would have stayed with Manjaro (not to be rude of the Manjaro team, they did an amazing job, I just like having *control* over everything I do). Although your video isn't all that in-depth with how things could be customized. Like using extended partitions for the Root and Home partitions, and setting bootable partitions in case some BIOSs need it, or even trying to boot without a Boot partition, it still helped me open the door to how Linux in general works. Searching across the web just to figure-out how minute things work in Linux.
Even though I've failed to install Arch a few times (tried installing it with UEFI), I'm not giving up until I see a working Desktop environment.
So I thank you for properly introducing me to the world of Linux, I'm really starting to enjoy this OS for what it could be!
Thanks a lot Luke, this is a super informative video. Looking forward to watching the next one (ie. install DE...)
Thanks Luke, I finally got it booting and understand what these commands actually do! Some changes: I needed to pacstrap linux, linux-firmware and generate the grub config
I listened to your video a couple times and today for the first time ever I tried following your tutorial to install my own Arch Linux. I have definitely learned a lot but on this first attempt of mine the grub bootloader did not configure properly, apparently.. I have been here before but sadly I have as of yet not mastered the art of grub whispering, I need only repair this small snafu and hopefully I will be able to move on with my new os installation 😁
Excellent video! Great job Luke!
You may want to use nano for text editing as you considered at some point for these tutorials. All of the steps are explained very well and I assume even someone very new to Linux can follow them. But the one thing people for sure will struggle with is using vim if they don't know it. They might even screw up some files in the process of trying to edit a file. Or just explain what keys you are pressing In vim as well :)
You are a God amongst men. Thanks for this guide!
3 AM, didn't install anything, just watched this amazing vid... I might install Arch tomorrow.
Edit: Today.
After two years, I come back and start installing arch.
Looking at their Conky, System monitor or whatever, the average user will rarely see any swap being used. If you are running 8Gb or more of RAM, 4Gb of swap is more than enough. Any application that heavily relies on swap can generally create it's own temporary swap space as needed.
Holy crap. Arch install is WAY easier than it used to be. I had stopped bothering after they got rid of the original men-driven install script a few years ago because there were too many steps. "Simple" doesn't always mean "worth the trouble."
Protip: If you have multiple hard drives on your machine, try running
lsblk -So NAME,MODEL,SERIAL,SIZE
This will list the model and serial numbers of all your physical drives (which are the same as the numbers printed by the manufacturer on the label on the physical drive). You really don't want to accidentally repartition the wrong drive and erase all your rare Pepes, causing much sadness. So this may help you not make that mistake, by identifying which block device name corresponds to which physical drive in your PC.
Installing Arch is not difficult at all. The only fussy part is setting up hard drive partitions in the terminal. It would be nice if they gave you a nicer UI for that. The rest of it is pretty easy.
For anyone having problems during grub-install saying something about not having bios, i had to redo everything and this time set the type for the boot partition in fdisk to number 4 which is bios boot. after fdisk /dev/sda, i set up the partitions and then hit t, then 4.
respect your careful explanation on everything. Great video!
adding the bs=xxM parameter to dd will speed up the cloning process by optimizing i/o.
These do quite well: 10M(USB2), 35M(USB3), 60M(5400rpm HDD)
512M(fills buffer 512M, then writes buffer, before filling it again. limited by r/w speed between two drives. (try: ibs=xxM obs=xxM))
my guess: 45 seconds (USB2) or 10 seconds(USB3) compared to the 3 minutes, imagine if this was a 10G img
13:00 - My laptop uses UEFI boot mode and I load the kernel as an EFI executable. If you want to do the same you can use a program called efibootmgr that is included in the arch installer.
Create an ESP for a GPT partitioned disk:
fdisk/gdisk: Create a partition with partition type EFI System (EFI System in fdisk or EF00 in gdisk)
After creating the ESP, you must format it as FAT32:
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdxY
mount ESP to /boot
Modify your motherboard's boot entries with efibootmgr:
efibootmgr --disk /dev/sdX --part Y --create --gpt --label "Arch Linux" --loader /vmlinuz-linux --unicode "root=/dev/sdBZ rw initrd=/initramfs-linux.img"
Where /dev/sdX and Y are the disk and partition where the ESP is located. Change the root= parameter to reflect your Linux root (disk UUIDs can also be used)
If you have an Intel CPU, install the intel-ucode package in addition, and enable microcode updates by adding initrd=/intel-ucode.img to the efibootmgr command above:
... --unicode "root=/dev/sdBZ rw initrd=/intel-ucode.img initrd=/initramfs-linux.img"
Running efibootmgr without arguments will print boot information and bootorder e.g:
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,2001,2002,2004
Boot0000* Arch Linux
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM
Boot3000* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk
To set the boot order, run:
efibootmgr --bootorder XXXX,XXXX
You can find more information here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB
Reinstalled 3 times... finally realized I installed it correctly 3 times... hp bios just hates grub haha
At least it works...
And I can install it with out the wiki now haha
Rettung minimal-bash GRUB screen on a hp uefi device. Did you run into similar problems? How did you fix them?
TheJayStar1 if you havent figured this out, you may have to manually add the boot option in EUFI.
@@bradenaurelion3033 got it to work but thanks!
I've installed arch before but i didnt really know anything about it. Since I've gone to university and done my own research stuff. I understood all of this and it was awesome. nice plug at the end there
A lot of new comments. Its just hilarious
Where can i find this video you were mentioning about installation steps when having uefi bios? See at 14:21
just search "arch linux install less than 10 minutes UEFI" on youtube
i know how to install and use arch but i love to watch this type of stuff still