Arch Linux Installation Guide (Best on YouTube!)
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- You asked for it, here it is, Full Arch Linux installation guide.
High level overview
0. Download your iso
1. Boot from the .iso (either in VirtualBox or by making a bootable USB)
2. Partition your disks
3. Format your disks (ext4 for boot and root)
4. Mount your disks
5. pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware vim
6. Generate your fstab file genfstab -U /mnt export to /mnt/etc/fstab
7. Chroot into Arch arch-chroot /mnt
8. Install grub and network manager pacman -S networkmanager grub
9. Make network manager run at startup systemctl enable NetworkManager
10. Configure Grub grub-install /dev/sda && grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
11. set password for root user
12. Configure local and timezone
13. exit chroot, unmount, and reboot into your arch environment
14. Enjoy a feeling of superiority and bully people who use Ubuntu.
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New linux user here, and this was my experience following this tutorial:
The tutorial was insanely smooth and easy to follow. Everything went as planned until I realised that grub-install wasn't working. Panicking, I restarted my entire install from the start and encountered the same issue.
If you encounter this problem, there's no need to restart. It's likely because your system is UEFI instead of EFI and that means in the step where you execute "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot" you actually need to mount to /mnt/boot/efi instead. Unmount it with "umount" , create a new working directory at /mnt/boot/efi with "mkdir", and then execute the mount, this time to the correct directory. After this, grub should install as intended and you can continue with the tutorial.
The next issue I encountered was in the very next step when trying to create a config file for grub, where the console mentioned that linux and initrd images were found, but also issues a warning that "os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions" if you get this issue, what you need to do is change some of grub's default settings. This is done by executing "vim /etc/default/grub" and look for the setting "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false" which is probably commented out. You need to uncomment it (ie. enable os prober).
After resolving those two issues, the rest of the install continued smoothly and i managed to arrive at the fabled ASCII Arch logo. Hope my experience helps anyone encountering the same issues.
edit: Oh also, for the peeps using wifi, if wifi menu doesn't work, search how to use iwctl instead
Thanks was just about to do this install tonight. probably would have ran into this issue.
Good advice
To add to this, mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 should be used rather than ext4. Ext4 may work occasionally but as it states in the wiki fat32 is better. This will solve the error 'grub-install: error: /boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition'
@@SamA-xu3dz Yup, I forgot to add that to my comment, thanks! Lastly, another thing you'll have to add to your packstrap if you're doing UEFI is efibootmgr. Depending on what GPU you use, you'll also want to look into installing drivers as well before rebooting because my nvidia one gave me issues on boot until it had its driver.
@@SamA-xu3dz bro thanmk you ive been doin this all week and you decide to post just yesterday thasnk yiou
Swap is necessary if you need the hibernate feature. It is very useful on Linux where you can forget about rebooting and shutting down
he didnt use it since he is on a virtualbox
Make a swapfile after install. Much more flexible than a swap partition.
Sebastian Samaniego excuse me?? Ever heard about Uefi?
@@feschber yes, a boot partition is necessary for an EFI install.
@@adityanair6021 Sometimes it is referred as a boot partition but yes, it is also called an EFI partition.
"I dont want to use some dirty bullshit like nano..."
I feel personally attacked, and it hurts.
Me too lol vim is difficult and unnecessary in most cases (for me anyway)
and here i am using micro like a normie...
@@ethanbroussard It's not difficult. If all you want is the same amount of capability as Nano, then the only syntax you need to know is 'i' to enter insert mode, 'esc' to escape it, and ':wq' to save and exit.
@@IndellableHatesHandles yeah ik I've had to use it before but there isnt much of a point if all I need it for is the same functionality as nano
@@zyansheep micro gang
I followed along with a virtual machine. Honestly the hardest part of the entire thing was learning how to use VIM. Arch elitists are total wusses compared to VIM elitists
Use nano if vim is difficult
Emacs
@@alkaupadhyay7650 I use magnets
@@AnkitJosh vi
I think you shouldn't use Arch if you can't grasp 'i', stuff, 'Esc', ':', 'w', 'q'
If anyone is having trouble getting unicode to work, it's because in the part where he sets up the language and locale (about 17:12), he put the wrong syntax.
Your locale.conf file (assuming you want U.S. English,) needs to read **LANG="en_US.UTF-8"** (ignore the asterisks). In the video, he put **LANG=en-US.UTF-8**, this can make the computer not want to display unicode and emojis correctly.
I just spent like 4 hours trying to figure this out on my machine, hopefully if you guys have the same issue you'll see this lol.
i was trying to get rofi to launch from a hotkey and spent like 8 hours trying to work out why and this was the problem
Needs more likes
Thanks buddy.
I think it's the part just after the timestamp you said (18:18) that is the problem. Thanks though I spent so long trying to work out that this was my problem
Should try this when I get home, why doesn't the wiki have it in quotes lol
definitely the shortest arch installation video out there. Nice and comprehensive
Agree, simple and no bs
Not the shortest th-cam.com/video/Ctp-5MRgxGA/w-d-xo.html
Well that video is only a month old
@@AtomToast he misses the nice and comprehensive part that the linked video lack ...
@@Elias-wz3sp ik, i only said it's shortest arch install nothing more.
I installed Arch on a machine with UEFI, if that applies to you and you are having troubles, this is what worked for me:
I basically followed the video instructions 1:1 except for:
6:55 I wasn't given the option to set a bootflag, however there was an option to change the partition type at the bottom. In my case I needed to make sure that the boot partion was of type "EFI-System". The second partion I just left on the default settings.
9:47 After "mkdir /mnt/boot" I also did "mkdir /mnt/boot/efi". Then instead of "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot" I used "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi". I am not quite sure if my explanation is correct, but I think if you later run "grub-install /dev/sda" at 16:08, grub by default assumes that the boot partition is installed at /mnt/boot/efi, so it won't work if you mount your boot partition to /mnt/boot (This issue also required me to restart the installation process, it didn't work for me to unmount the boot partion and remount it to the rigth path, I had to restart at the beginning and delete my partions and recreate them)
Hope this helps!
Thanks so much! For anyone who also ran into the "efibootmgr not found" error, simply run pacman -S efibootmgr, after its installed it should work
thanks for the 6:55 part i didnt have the bootflag option either but it showed up on the USB when i used cfdisk on it
bruuuh and I spent like 15 minutes fixing this using google, when I had the comment section lol
Thanks
Legend!
about halfway through the video, and so far you haven't been lying! best on youtube
edit: yay I'm a cool kid now
It's actually crazy how much easier this is to follow than the written instructions.
The one's on the wiki aren't difficult but they are opaque and it seems like they weren't written by people who are good at delivering info in a teacher-like fashion.
Thanks for this, excited to get home after the holidays and try this!
They expect you to know how the commands work.
I tried to dual boot arch linux with windows 7, and their guide doesn't really have anything clear on how to do that. I tried archinstall, but it requires internet access and it somehow doesn't install arch on bare metal. (A few people have already discovered that) I then tried to manually pacstrap but, again, I can't set up an offline repo, and it just download everything from the web. Like, what's the point of an iso if you're just going to sync everything from the server?
In the end, I admitted defeat, and went to artix linux gui installer. I use arch linux *anyway*.
My main issue with the Arch website in general is the fact that it's hard to read (page is so bright). I've also gotten used to reading text on nice looking UIs so the fact that the website looks like it's older than I am (somewhat exaggerating) doesn't help readability either lol.
@@Sam-vf5ucNot that I don't understand them now, but in my opinion that's not a nice expectation. A new user would have every right to say "I'm here because I don't know and this manual won't teach me.".
@@Sam-vf5uc would be nice to throw in more links to actual explainations haha, only half have them, spend like an hour looking up stuff on google before i went fuck it and watched this
I literally spent a whole day trying to install Arch Linux on a Virtualbox machine and every attempt failed (over 20 I'd say), despite following all the other guides, and youtuber's instruction, to the letter. After each install I could only get into the grub menu as there was no system to boot into. I thought I was going crazy but needed to get it to work so that I could build a small footprint Spark platform. Then I came across your video and followed your steps as I watched your video and my Arch Linux installation was up and running on the first go. Can't thank you enough. Also your side notes regarding why DOS and not GPT and the trick about fstab was really clear and easy to understand. Class act. Thanks again!! Tom
I keep watching install guides over and over to see how other people setup their arch OS, this was one of the best one i've seen, thanks :)
Glad it helped!
@@MentalOutlaw hey the wifi-menu thing doesn't work bro
This video introduced me to more advanced Linux distributions. I didn't quite understand what I was exactly doing when I installed it in virtualbox but now with a bit more experience it is nice to come back here to watch it again and think back to the past self who had so much struggle and stayed up till 3.00 am trying it over and over again.
Thank you MO for doing such a great job of providing Linux :)
YOU ARE AWESOME! THANKS MAN! You removed my fears of making a new arch install, I use it, but the first time I did a install, nearly a year and a half ago, I suffered so much in tutorials and stuff.. it took so much time to get it right, I spent nearly 3 months to work the way I wanted, and got PTSD from it.
Nice video. Laughed my ass of at zoomer laptop remark. However, I believe that if you're on any laptop (not just a zoomer one) you need disk encryption set up.
It's one thing if you have a desktop that's at your home and you're home 24/7, but if you have a laptop that's carried around all the time and you live in a dangerous neighborhood, you would want your drive encrypted in case your laptop gets stolen. This way thieves will never get access to your sensitive files like .vimrc for example.
Partitioning?
Omg, I’ll do it, I don’t want people look my .vimrc file since in my neighborhood everyone use emacs.
@@aperson4475 I think it's time to find a new neighborhood 😫
It's okay, everybody at my neighborhood uses nano.
@@aperson4475 It's okay, everybody at my neighborhood uses gedit.
Yo just wanna say I really appreciated this tutorial didn't get stuck in the mud and details, you kept it real. Keep on hustlin. Also you mad funny.
Godsend of a video. Partitions/tables are the thing that scare me off most when doing anything related to computers, and you made it super easy.
Best Arch video out of tons other. Simple and very precise. Explanation is superb as I have understood why and what is mnt and other mount points. Before I was doing lots of it just as a blind follower. Thanks Sir appreciate your time.
Man you saved me! I had already wasted hours following other tutorials before stumbling upon this one.
Cheers!
So this really is the best installation guide on YT.
Honestly, this isn't difficult if you just follow along. The hard part is understanding the context and logic behind most of the commands. Maybe in a few years I'll "get it." lol
This is the first video that I've seen about arch that was actually helpful, also I share your mentality on nano. Learn vim or forever suffer from not being productive.
Really, this is the best tutorial on TH-cam that I have ever seen till now!!!
Aside from a few steps, I followed the tutorial exactly as instructed. Had to figure out how to get grub-install to work(had to use --efi-directory) and connect to wifi on my own(iwctl didn't quite connect it, had to use nmcli), but it worked perfectly otherwise. Thanks, local 4-eyed cat Linux man.
Bro, thank you so much man, this took me literally six hours. I just started using arch from Debian man. I’ll tell you this process humble me. I can say I’m an official ARCH user now ❤❤❤
Out of all the installation videos on youtube this is the first one that worked. Thank you! I subbed!
Great video! I've watched it about 4 times now, installed Arch on two different virtual machines, and made a cheat sheet for myself with all of the commands (using Nano, dirty, dirty Nano)
Using nano decreases the coolness of your config files. Never do that.
It's videos like this that can help make a difference in the world. People need to reclaim the power over their devices and this is a very good way to accomplish that!
Really helped with installing Arch for the first time on my T470! Thanks yet again!
For those who had trouble installing grub, you need to format your sda1 to Fat32 and mount /mnt/boot/efi instead, when it asks for a efibootmgr, just install the package with pacman -S efibootmgr
Hope this helps
haha, right on
suggestion -
some swap space is actually useful, not just when you run out of ram but it helps in sleep function work better in some systems. if you have free hard disk space, just create a swap.
Thanks for converting me to the ways of Arch, it will continue to quench my thirst for command line based functionality
the first part has helped me a lot!!! actually it's better than the arch installation manual, thank you
The audio is proper...
You have a lot of Linux work to do to become relevant and whatnot... Buh I subbed for the vocal presentation
It worked perfectly, I used the tutorial for the 32bit installation, some notes about that, the partition should be ext3 for my old PC instead of ext4, the rest of the tutorial worked fine
Thank you so much! Not only this was straightforward and I managed to install Arch easily, but this was one of the bests tutorials I've seen. Very entertaining and nice :D Thank you
This tutorial still works in 2023, thanks! Did the trick for me, while others didn't and man, seing that neofetch output really is something XD
followed the official arch linux install guide along side this and cross referenced almost every step. Still good. Order is a bit different, but is of no effect and there are some bits in this video that are not in the arch linux guide that are really useful like installing the networkmanager!
Thank you for the great guide! Wasn't the end all be all for me, but set me on the right track.
Thank you :DD this helped me a lot, I love your content and almost everything that I know about distro-installing is thanks to you
Well done and fairly easy to follow - the only thing I might add is to run [ pacman -Syu ] before installing neofetch. Helps eliminating som not found errors. I plan on subscribing and watching some of your other videos. Again thanks.
One of the best Arch Linux installation guide after 13 years indeed not to mention midfngr, very good instruction including some tiny misinform but it is far the best, thanks :)
May he rest in peace. such a great man
ShaTer he was my friend and we fell out before he passed away :-(
@@garth56 I'm really very sorry and we've lost a great gem :(
You made installation so easy to digest, seriously. Subbed.
I loved your gentoo guide even though I never went through with it. Maybe I'll do this one!
`loadkeys` should be the very first command. You north americans assume too much...
works on my machine
I had to search so fucking much to figure out how to make it not a guessing game with german keyboard
I'm looking forward to the next tutorial!
Really quick, precise guide. Best I've seen. Thanks.
If I am partitioning a drive that already has a Linux install and grub, do I need to follow your steps for installing grub, or is it fine the way it is?
Worked great on QEMU, can't wait to test it on a physical drive. (Anyone with issues with exiting locale during install, try pressing "shift zz" and it should help you their)
Stuck on the vim part? VVV
To "write quit that" you have to first press the ESC button then type :wq in the console that shows up, followed by Enter.
This is the only video I have found so far that doesn't use uefi. I don't use eufi, it causes so many issues on my laptop for some reason. Thank you.
Love the instant install of neofetch. Very important.
why did you do a seperate boot partition in this mbr set up?
i didn't find any explanation for it on arch wiki so it kind of confused me
Thank you for taking the time to show us more about Arch, an advanced Linux distro.
>thinking arch is advanced
@@ClockworkRBLX What else is there thats more advanced? Gentoo and Slackware is all I can think of. Are you saying Arch *isnt* advanced?
@@triliner254 Arch isn't advanced though. It's literally baby tier
For some odd reason even though I followed you step for step I can't reboot. When I try I get "running in chroot, ignoring request." even though I used the exit command or CTRL + D. It gives the message "there are stopped jobs." I would greatly appreciate any help.
So I followed these steps, but must have screwed something up somewhere. When I try rebooting, it now only gives me a single drive option (my new NVMe that I'm installing Arch onto), where I should have an older linux drive, a windows drive, and the new NVMe, so I can no longer choose any other drives. Any thoughts on this?
yea thanks for the extra noob info thats exactly what I needed, I like how you introduced how it puzzled together nicely you a good instructor
3:47
You can just as well connect your phone via USB and enable "USB Tethering" on your phone.
That is how i am surviving. I fucked up the lan wifi and Bluetooth
@@alkaupadhyay7650 how
Just finished installling it with another tutorial but im going to do it all again just because this is one of your videos
When i try to do grub-install I get and error saying it cant be embedded and only can be installed with blocklists
Great video! Thanks to you I have completely switched over to Arch.
Glad I could help!
Just out of curiosity, how would the installation go without the use of pacstrap?
It works! Thanks man for the amazing tutorial! Much love and peace!
excellent video! If possible, I would recommend disconnecting any other hard drives if possible to assure you do not install on
the wrong disk. Just a little added peace of mind :-) I just subscribed
If I make second data storage only partition, other dev/sda3, where to mount it? Or it can be on /mnt as well?
filtered from the beginning. cant connect to wireless, tells me to install b43 fwcutter and the firmware but idk how to extract that from this laptop to another laptop, tells me to put the files in lib folder but there is no lib folder on the usb booter
always the same error when I install grub : SQUASHFS error: unable to read fragment and read page, block +boot/efi does not look like an EFI partition.
idea?
thanks
I have a doubt where should we mount boot partition, /mnt/boot or /mnt/boot/efi
The former didn't work for me it said no efi directory .
What is wrong?
When I made my usb a bootable drive with Arch, when I went into the boot menu first it didn't show. When I got that to work, the BIOS setup does some crazy shit and it just doesn't work. I cant even get to the first boot. Help please.
I’m using the install guide of this video for my arch Linux install guide but for my Japanese class. Good video
There is a mistake (atleast I think its one, ignore if its not).
when you make the locale.conf file, you put LANG=en-US.UTF-8 , when in the arch wiki it says en_US.UTF-8.
I do not know if this will break things, or if both ways are correct, just letting you know
This was literally the best tutorial. Thanks again helping out a noob!
This certainly is the Best Arch Linux Installation Guide on TH-cam
why does it sometimes look like you pressed enter 10x in a row in the terminal? I was getting the same behaviour
Do you memorize these commands? or like you already know what each obviation signifies so its like a new language to you. Like learning music you can see the notes.
At the Network Manager Part In Gives Me This error: failed to make directory ' /boot/grub' .
How do you use the torrent file? I don't know how to get a .iso file from a .torrent file, as changing the extension would obviously corrupt the file (changing .torrent to .iso).
Well I get as far as pressing enter on arch and then it hangs on Probing EDD indefinitely. I've been completely unable to attempt an installation of this on both Virtualbox now and Hyper-V in Windows 10. Forever stuck with windows 10....
This tutorial is much more helpful than official guide. I tried gentoo and void in the past and their official guides are much more helpful than arch.
Thanks very much. I was trying to follow, only difference, I used GPT and grub couldn't install. Any advice for using GPT. Thanks again.
I was unable to boot my x220 with a UEFI install. This lead me to combine your method with the one provided by Luke Smith on his Artix install tutorial.
Now my long desired mSata + SSD dual system is working.
when i click "create" it says it failed to create the hard disk storage and then gives the directory. How do i fix
on my zoomer laptop i dont have an ethernet port but its got usb c thinderbolt ports that you can plug in you phone and usb tether it so it still kinda works out and it thinks im on LAN
i´m having a problem where once the installation is finnished the "man" comand can´t set the locale even tho i set it up just like in the guide anyone knows how to solve it?
What is the purpose of unmounting at the end? What happens if it is not done?
as a windows user that started studying computer science few months ago, im really curious about ‘how can i learn all these things?’ i really want to use linux on my laptop, i already use vim as my editor on a debian wsl but i really cant understand much of this entire process.
Damn.....
I had a lot of trouble with this... but finally I have it set up. I have to use a wifi adapter on my pc..... and for the love of me could not figure out how to get it connected to the internet, first with iwctl... next with nmcli.
I initially thought I did something wrong.... reinstalled, made a simple mistake with the grub config (grub-mkconfig /boot/grub.grub.conf instead of /boot/grub/gub.conf)
Messed up... didnt know how to operate grub and boot into the Os... booted it through the usb again... changed grub, and finally got it working
Thank you for an amazing tutorial
USB stick Image for mine has to be written in DD mode, or the damn thing will hang waiting for the Drive to mount.. Rufus has to be Switched from ISO mode to DD mode
Why do you chroot before installing more things like network manager and grub?
Insane tutorial. Thank you so much. I did this on a VM just to get to know my endeavourOS install a little better. And maybe make the vm look sick with some ricing. I may end up installing vanilla arch on bare metal someday... Just not today. Good luck m8.
when doing the language you dont tell us what buttons you are pressing to get visual mode and delete the # etc
Does not show `Select label type` when run `cfdisk /dev/sda`, but default is `doc`
Can someone tell me what's the difference between using the wiki and this guide ?
Grub opens in CLI and when i type "boot" it says "you need to load the kernel first"
@mental outlaw
Great video but have some questions:
So it is easy to add space to fixed size VDI file?
Early Unix your only choice was swap partition setup. For running on direct (older) hardware with Arch or other current distros can you use both a swap file and swap partition?
Can you have multiple swap files on different partitions like MS windows xp or higher can do?
If yes, and swap file was on slower storage and swap partition on fast storage could you make hibernate only use the slower swap file?
I am just linux curious - a short answer is fine :-)
Error: failed to commit transaction (invalid....
Did I miss something?
You just saved me from windows. Thank you!
hey installation went fine but when i rebooted it. mine looks much different than yours
20:21 when I boot it from hard drive, it pp show the same grub menu like yours
Before install the net is working, but after it's not,
unable to fetch neofetch
6:38 I am using GPT and I only have in the menu Device, Start, End, Sectors, Size Type I don't know why...
Why do you format /boot partition with ext4?
Once my CS professor said that ext2 for /boot is sufficient and thus better (because simpler).
I know, the difference wouldn't be very large on such small partition, but I was curious whether you know about something I don't or perhaps the other way around
this got me curious