Months ago I installed arch aplying some the things explained in this video. Today, booting to a snapshot from grub and restoring it helped me fix my system. Thank you very much!
Great video as usual! I find the bug of archinstall ignoring compression rather scary: while you can adjust the fstab, what's installed up to that point is not compressed (a defrag would be needed). Another note: I think that only the options specified for the first subvolume in fstab are important: due to a limitation, only the options of the first subvolume are taken into consideration, i.e., you can't have subvolumes with different options.
Indeed, I hope the archinstall team finds the time to continue this project and fix some of the longstanding bugs/regressions - shouldn't be terribly difficult!
It's also a good idea to enable TRIM for your SSD by enabling fstrim.timer. For LUKS you also need to set the allow_discards flag on the partition, which is not enabled by default on Arch.
Thanks for another great video. I follow all your videos and find them very helpful. What exactly is the haveged service? Why did you recommend this, and why should I use it? Can you explain why you used the network settings in the video instead of the default settings? Thanks
The haveged random number entropy service is out of date now, please disregard with this older video! :) KDE requires that networkmanager is installed if you want to use the gui to configure - you of course are free to manually configure networking if you prefer... I'm looking into making an updated video soon!
Running `pacman -Syu` right after booting the live ISO on my end (using the December live ISO) immediately results in "error: Partition / too full", as there is about 12 MiB of updates arch wants to install. Is this because the live ISO is using ramfs? Do you know of a way to get around this?
At 3:41 you didn't set passwd for root as you said you don't want to have a root account, just the Stephen then how did you get into root at 11:55 by doing sudo -s 🤷 could you please explain this to be, I'm trying to learn as much as possible about Linux
Just a question, now that LUKS 2.0 is out... By using this script, are we still using the old version, or has it been updated to a new one? Also, by encrypting the systen, is bootloader also encrypted! I managed to manually do a "FDE" on Fedora, following a tutorial on YT. It involved a lot of work, but encryptioncwas on for a whole disk
@@JohnSmith-gd2ws Thanks for checking on that! Cannot wait to start using Arch again, it was actually one of the few distros that worked flawlessly - except nvidia drivers, which have been known to cause issues. I might actually get a secondary AMD card just to run Linux :)
Can you make a tutorial on how to backup your installed packages to github like that ? It's super convenient to just restore everything like you did in this video
I have had a problem with timeshift not running scheduled tasks. It turns out that cronie is not started on installation by archinstall. You need to do it manually, ie: #systemctl enable cronie.service and #systemctl start cronie.service. You can test timeshift with #timeshift --check --scripted and timeshift will create scheduled snapshots which you can check with the GUI.
Very instructive! What I do not really understand, however: why adding the user to the "uucp" group? Back in 1995 I used uucp over the phone line to get mail and usenet news. But in 2022, this is hardly the case for most people, I would assume.
Thanks for the video. Why you do not use Ctrl-W after that Ctrl-R "Replace" in nano? So you can safe a lot of time again for your changings into fstab file or in other config files too.
It's the official ArchISO you can download here: archlinux.org/download/ The archinstall installer is already included. To make this video as fresh as possible, I built the latest install image using these instructions: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archiso#Build_the_ISO Thanks for your support!
Booting from snapshots will be significantly affected by secure boot: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot It might be possible to do this without breakage, but is it worth it? You should be able to turn off SB in your firmware settings...
When you update this video, can you also show how to upgrade the linux kernel without breaking Wayland? Thank goodness for your idea of using btrfs for snapshots to roll back to a working system. I don't know enough how to update the linux kernel without breaking Wayland, so any advice would be appreciated!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Things are so unstable and buggy on nvidia as you intimate that I'm going to purchase an AMD graphics card myself...it's very unfortunate that nvidia linux support is sub-par and complicated beyond grief. Can't mention how many times KDE plasma 5.27 freezes or gets buggy and I need to restart the system. Don't know if KDE Plasma 6 will solve any of these issues, but the path of least resistance is to abandon nvidia and switch to AMD graphics. Thanks for taking the time to respond!
so, i finally got a new drive and wanted to install arch with this script. hovewer, it gets stuckat selecting mirrors - they never get refreshed, and the only solution is to exit from archinstall. even without that step, additional packages never get installed. I have noticed doing pacman -Syu won't actually upgrade the system as it cannot write to usb for some reason. the script is at version 2.6.3.1, or the latest one at the time of writing.
Comment ended up in spam for some reason - thanks for sharing! Yes archinstall can be worthwhile if it saves you time over the classic install. It's still very buggy and complex but hopefully when there's a good release I hope to do an updated video!
Hi Great Video I love it , I followed the same and noticed the /boot is not getting backed up as its on a different partition and says its not a btrfs filesystem so cannot backup , if a kernel is updated and I restore some old backup and it would be referring to an old kernel , its only restoring / not /boot and its breaking my setup any help would be really helpfull
I would install both linux and linux-lts packages so you should be able to recover from a bad kernel update by booting the known good alternate kernel. Good luck!
Hi there, i had my system configured with snapper following your tutorials, can i convert from snapper to timeshift? i tried to install timeshift but it says no drive for snapshots found. Best regards
@@stephenstechtalks5377 I followed your snapper tutorial but i had a @.snapshot and also a @snapshot, i was trying to remove the @.snapshot but i couldnt. now i was trying to swap the snapper with timeshift.
I can't get KDE running stable with Wayland (Intel Graphics on my Laptop). Should I try with a fresh user account, i.e. could it be caused by settings from the X11 session I am using up to now?
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Ok, thanks for your answer. Good to know that KDE can run stable with Wayland. I doubted that from (limited) my experience. I'll try again with a fresh user account.
@@acharyaguy I created a new user account and now KDE & Wayland work quite well. Maybe there was something in the config files what caused problems with Wayland. Most programs are fine, some are having minor problems, e.g. LibreOffice and some don't work well, e.g. Zoom (no screen sharing with Wayland). Fickering and flashing might be caused by the i915 driver and HW acceleration. Check the Arch Wiki. Especially Alder Lake CPUs are causing problems with GPU freezes - but theses problems are not specific to KDE or Wayland.
Months ago I installed arch aplying some the things explained in this video.
Today, booting to a snapshot from grub and restoring it helped me fix my system.
Thank you very much!
Fantastic!
Another amazing video. Thanks Stephen!.
Thanks, absolutely perfect workshop to install Arch easy. Take care 🎄
Thanks, you too!
Great video as usual! I find the bug of archinstall ignoring compression rather scary: while you can adjust the fstab, what's installed up to that point is not compressed (a defrag would be needed). Another note: I think that only the options specified for the first subvolume in fstab are important: due to a limitation, only the options of the first subvolume are taken into consideration, i.e., you can't have subvolumes with different options.
Indeed, I hope the archinstall team finds the time to continue this project and fix some of the longstanding bugs/regressions - shouldn't be terribly difficult!
It's also a good idea to enable TRIM for your SSD by enabling fstrim.timer. For LUKS you also need to set the allow_discards flag on the partition, which is not enabled by default on Arch.
Indeed, thanks for sharing! :)
What tf is that? That wasn’t on the wiki, was it?
Always good to double-check!
How do we enable TRIM for SSD?
@@RT-jp9me Use '$ systemctl list-timer' to check if fstrim is enabled, if not use '$ sudo systemctl enable --now fstrim.timer'
Great content, thanks.
My pleasure!
Thanks for another great video. I follow all your videos and find them very helpful.
What exactly is the haveged service? Why did you recommend this, and why should I use it?
Can you explain why you used the network settings in the video instead of the default settings?
Thanks
The haveged random number entropy service is out of date now, please disregard with this older video! :) KDE requires that networkmanager is installed if you want to use the gui to configure - you of course are free to manually configure networking if you prefer... I'm looking into making an updated video soon!
Running `pacman -Syu` right after booting the live ISO on my end (using the December live ISO) immediately results in "error: Partition / too full", as there is about 12 MiB of updates arch wants to install. Is this because the live ISO is using ramfs? Do you know of a way to get around this?
Got 32 GB of RAM, also ran into this issue on QEMU / KVM as well as on hardware
Just skip that step - I got away with it only because I used a very fresh ISO from the same day. :) You'll be fine. Good luck!
At 3:41 you didn't set passwd for root as you said you don't want to have a root account, just the Stephen then how did you get into root at 11:55 by doing sudo -s 🤷 could you please explain this to be, I'm trying to learn as much as possible about Linux
Just a question, now that LUKS 2.0 is out... By using this script, are we still using the old version, or has it been updated to a new one? Also, by encrypting the systen, is bootloader also encrypted! I managed to manually do a "FDE" on Fedora, following a tutorial on YT. It involved a lot of work, but encryptioncwas on for a whole disk
I'm pretty sure the script uses luks2. The script says it somewhere it does at least. I'm doing an install right now. I will check if it does.
Update: It does use luks2
@@JohnSmith-gd2ws Thanks for checking on that! Cannot wait to start using Arch again, it was actually one of the few distros that worked flawlessly - except nvidia drivers, which have been known to cause issues. I might actually get a secondary AMD card just to run Linux :)
The current version 2.6 of the archinstall script contains many regressions and makes the "official" Arch Way easier in the long run. ;)
Can you make a tutorial on how to backup your installed packages to github like that ? It's super convenient to just restore everything like you did in this video
Thanks for the suggestion!
I have had a problem with timeshift not running scheduled tasks. It turns out that cronie is not started on installation by archinstall. You need to do it manually, ie: #systemctl enable cronie.service and #systemctl start cronie.service. You can test timeshift with #timeshift --check --scripted and timeshift will create scheduled snapshots which you can check with the GUI.
Excellent input, thanks for sharing!
Very instructive! What I do not really understand, however: why adding the user to the "uucp" group? Back in 1995 I used uucp over the phone line to get mail and usenet news. But in 2022, this is hardly the case for most people, I would assume.
Ah yes! I use this group for programming radios over the serial line. :) See here:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/users_and_groups
Thanks for your support!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Okay, then this makes sense. 😀
Thanks for the video. Why you do not use Ctrl-W after that Ctrl-R "Replace" in nano? So you can safe a lot of time again for your changings into fstab file or in other config files too.
Thanks for the tip!
I love the install script!
Hopefully development resumes!
Very useful video sir. May thanks
Most welcome!
What is the name of this arch installer and where can you download the iso?
It's the official ArchISO you can download here:
archlinux.org/download/
The archinstall installer is already included.
To make this video as fresh as possible, I built the latest install image using these instructions:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archiso#Build_the_ISO
Thanks for your support!
Very cool video. Every thought of putting all the pacman -S - < ... steps into a shell script?
Absolutely, but with a demo I prefer to do things by hand as much as possible for folks to follow along. :) Thanks for watching!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Good point but would be nice to add to your repo.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Excellent video thx! But, how to install ArchLinux with secure boot enable?
Booting from snapshots will be significantly affected by secure boot:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot
It might be possible to do this without breakage, but is it worth it? You should be able to turn off SB in your firmware settings...
When you update this video, can you also show how to upgrade the linux kernel without breaking Wayland? Thank goodness for your idea of using btrfs for snapshots to roll back to a working system. I don't know enough how to update the linux kernel without breaking Wayland, so any advice would be appreciated!
Are you on nvidia graphics? :)
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Unfortunately, yes. I currently have your Arch setup running Wayland and nvidia graphics driver 535
I got rid of all my nvidia hardware because of issues like this - I'm on Intel and AMD... :)
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Things are so unstable and buggy on nvidia as you intimate that I'm going to purchase an AMD graphics card myself...it's very unfortunate that nvidia linux support is sub-par and complicated beyond grief.
Can't mention how many times KDE plasma 5.27 freezes or gets buggy and I need to restart the system. Don't know if KDE Plasma 6 will solve any of these issues, but the path of least resistance is to abandon nvidia and switch to AMD graphics.
Thanks for taking the time to respond!
so, i finally got a new drive and wanted to install arch with this script. hovewer, it gets stuckat selecting mirrors - they never get refreshed, and the only solution is to exit from archinstall. even without that step, additional packages never get installed. I have noticed doing pacman -Syu won't actually upgrade the system as it cannot write to usb for some reason. the script is at version 2.6.3.1, or the latest one at the time of writing.
Comment ended up in spam for some reason - thanks for sharing! Yes archinstall can be worthwhile if it saves you time over the classic install. It's still very buggy and complex but hopefully when there's a good release I hope to do an updated video!
Hi Great Video I love it , I followed the same and noticed the /boot is not getting backed up as its on a different partition and says its not a btrfs filesystem so cannot backup , if a kernel is updated and I restore some old backup and it would be referring to an old kernel , its only restoring / not /boot and its breaking my setup any help would be really helpfull
I would install both linux and linux-lts packages so you should be able to recover from a bad kernel update by booting the known good alternate kernel. Good luck!
Hi there, i had my system configured with snapper following your tutorials, can i convert from snapper to timeshift? i tried to install timeshift but it says no drive for snapshots found. Best regards
Hi, Timeshift is hard-coded to expect @ and @home subvolumes, while Snapper is a bit more flexible. What's your current BTRFS subvolume layout?
@@stephenstechtalks5377 I followed your snapper tutorial but i had a @.snapshot and also a @snapshot, i was trying to remove the @.snapshot but i couldnt. now i was trying to swap the snapper with timeshift.
Never tried to switch myself - back up your data and let us know how it goes! Timeshift won’t configure without both @ and @home already existing…
I can't get KDE running stable with Wayland (Intel Graphics on my Laptop). Should I try with a fresh user account, i.e. could it be caused by settings from the X11 session I am using up to now?
Not really sure, super hard to diagnose over the internet. My own Intel laptops are working fine in that regard. :(
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Ok, thanks for your answer. Good to know that KDE can run stable with Wayland. I doubted that from (limited) my experience. I'll try again with a fresh user account.
@@tunichtgut5285 how is it now ? I am also having problems with kde lately with intel graphics, it is flickering and flashing.
@@acharyaguy I created a new user account and now KDE & Wayland work quite well. Maybe there was something in the config files what caused problems with Wayland. Most programs are fine, some are having minor problems, e.g. LibreOffice and some don't work well, e.g. Zoom (no screen sharing with Wayland). Fickering and flashing might be caused by the i915 driver and HW acceleration. Check the Arch Wiki. Especially Alder Lake CPUs are causing problems with GPU freezes - but theses problems are not specific to KDE or Wayland.
I had kde and xorg , i haven't used Wayland
Can this be done using the ReFind bootloader?
I've only seen this work on GRUB... It's been a few years for me - does ReFind support submenus? If so, maybe then! :)
@@stephenstechtalks5377 it supports submenus (need to test if its possible), thanks for your response and extremely good video :3
Excellent, thanks for sharing!
hi could you please show me how to chroot this system !
i couldnt connect to wifi after installation
Your hardware may need additional steps outlined here:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless
Take a look here: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot
Control-W to remove a word saves a lot of pressing backspace key
Thanks for sharing!
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I recently found that grub-btrfs AUR package is out of date and you should build from the git image. Works much better.
Got it!
thanks for video, amazing guide!
Glad you enjoyed it!