Hi, I just followed your installation on this video and it worked first time! I have been trying to install Arch for 3 days following other people's installation RUclips videos and yours is the only one that worked! Excellent video and many thanks! Simon, UK
@@eflinux Hey, there. I am actually stuck at the partitioning part. When I type cfdisk /dev/sda, it doesn’t ask me for label type, which messed up the whole grub process resulting the computer to unable to boot. Any fix for this? Thanks a lot for your time..
Thank you so much, I was having problems with the partitions and grub, your tutorial helped me clarify my mistakes, I was selecting the gpt label instead of the dos
Good evening, By far the best tutorial I have seen to install Arch Linux !! I even managed my first installation in two years of testing. Bravo for this tutorial which explains very well and above all which takes a lot of time to explain and show us what is going on. I will now continue with an installation in UEFI thanks to the other tutorial and all on my new computer. Thanks again
@@eflinux When trying to install grub with the grub-install command i got this error. grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists. So i created Bios boot partition on my hard drive for 200MB and formatted it to ext4. when i got to the part of the installation to install grub it worked without any errors.
Thanks for the reply. That happens when you create a GPT label on an MBR system. In this case Grub looks for a bootable boot partition. If the disk label is DOS, then Grub should install fine on /dev/sdx, where x is the name of your disk. Thanks for watch the video! Cheers:)
Thanks very much for this. I'm a complete newb, but following this I now have Arch installed on an ancient Acer Aspire laptop that was otherwise heading for the bin!
Even at 64 years old I was able to follow and install Arch. Other Arch videos assume you know what to do next or they explain so fast I just could not follow. Some did not talk about there being a difference between UEIF and BIOS install. THANKS my friend!!! There is a cold beer waiting for you in south TEXAS!
@@eflinux I tried to install Arch in my Lenovo ThinkPad E540 followed different youtuber but at EFI command after long process it said my machine is not compatible with EFI. Any idea? Is that mean I should use this method to install? Bios method?
This brother helped me alot thanks. I was struggling to install arch on my low end pc for 4 days and finally found this video. And guess what? It WORKED!! Thanks a lot i appreciate it very much 💪🏽
Thank you for the information about how to get wireless connections working. I was able to find info on wifi-menu at initial installation time but the use of nmtui was the most invaluable. I had tried arch installation via multiple you-tube presentation and only was wifi-menu mentioned. After you comment on nmtui could I find info in archwiki and even that was somewhat between the lines. Much appreciated
17/09/2020 brother is the best of the tutorials that I have seen I am from Venezuela and the tutorials in my language in Spanish are not well designed thanks excellent, keep going so you won another subscriber .... thank you
A great tutorial, also a one that works. Thanks Note: if grub wont install use "grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda --force" (just add --force in the end)
Thanks! First time Arch install... I'm an old Slackware, debian, RH, Centos. Caldera, Fedora man.. oh yeah used to run Gentoo.. lol.. probably forgot a couple..
I own computers that run a variety of operating systems, especially Arch and Openbsd and I have not seen such a good and short guide in a long time. With a guide like this I can let Newbie install Arch with his eyes closed. Well done!
I have a half dozen old BIOS laptops. Used this video to install Archlinux on the first one. Works great, nice video. I had no problems at all. What to do with the rest?
was wondering why grub was booting into the grub terminal, turns out my dumb ass forgot to generate the config file lol. Thanks for the video, it really helped!
I have and old Notebook Intel Atom n280 1.6 ghz whit 2 GB ram and 120 GB SSD i was able to install perfectly archlinux32 for 32 Bits systems Following this guide I watched a lot of videos to install my old laptop and your guide worked like a charm. thnak you so much dude! i love you Now I can say "i use arch btw" ;)
I am another grateful viewer of your exellent tutorials. I followed this tutorial to see if I could get arch installed on my HP Probook 6470b with mbr. Other tutorials for uefi failed. I could in most cases boot using bios. But Arch could not start by it self So was the case even this time. But I had previously watched a tutorial on how to partition for mbr. This guy set his /dev/sda2 (root) to bootable. So I used cfdisk to set my /dev/sda2 to bootable. Voilá. It works. How come you did not have to do that? Now I am a happy beginner to Arch again
Dude I love you so much I had a lot of problems with driver problems (This system has a really old gpu) with a previous install but you helped me out a lot thanks!
Hi, great tutorial! But I'm getting stuck after the first boot, trying to connect to my wifi. My network won't show up in the nmtui activate menu, and I've tried adding it manually, but it still won't show up :(
Thanks for the clean and clear instructions ,now I am able to install Arch Linux on my system. Used 3 of your videos as reference to create MBR/GPT partition/Installing Arch/installing KDE desktop. I was trying for last few months to install but only after going through your videos I could able to install without any issues, thanks a lot. 👍
Hello, your accent seemed similar to another RUclipsr i know. Do you perchance live in, or near Switzerland? Also, i installed everything, though when i try to boot into arch, i get thrown into this maintenance thing and it says that according to the superblock, sda2 is however many blocks in size, but the physical size of it is less, meaning there may be corruption. I'm trying to fix it, but it may have something to do with when i added a BIOS boot partition later, because it would not let me select DOS Edit: i figured out the problem, some point along the way with the process this superblock says sda2 is some size, then later i resize it down to make a BIOS partition, then other stuff n stuff. I'm low on time, so i don't want to search how to figure that out so i am restarting the process. Got it to work, thanks, great video!
19:52 the "pacman -S" didnt work for me, it returned a bunch of 404 errors. At last the command that worked for me is this one "pacman -Syu" i should have upgrade distro as well. In general this is an awesome video tutorial! Thanks a lot and di not stop helping us with your tutorials!
Is "grub-install --target=i386-pc" for a 64 bit system as well? figured that out it's cool... now to get it to fit the whole screen but I'm very pleased 1st time I have succeeded.
Hello, I've done everything as in the video. When I reboot, the bios says that there is not a boot device, while the grub said it was successful at installation and generation of config file I've installed grub on the first sector of /dev/sda everything was typed out correctly, double checked My laptop "supports" UEFI (I've manually enabled that), but when I tried to install it with UEFI it said that there are no efivars, so I disabled UEFI in the BIOS, and tried with this video, but now this happens. To add, I've split partitions like you did, /dev/sda1 for swap, and /dev/sda2 for ext4, the file table is DOS. What could be the problem?
When rebooting what should happen, it started again from 0 and does not reconigze NetworkManager command, i dont know what to do, i am in a virtual machine in virtual box thank you very much
I keep receiving a “login incorrect” message when rebooting to existing os. What part did I miss where I made the login usr? I have my password from passwd and in the hostname file I wrote phat with the same in hosts
hi Ermanno, I followed you and got to the desktop just fine. My only problem is that I cannot change the resolution to 1920x1080. I installed the nvidia drivers using the commands you suggested. The best I can get is 1024x768. What can I do to get to 1920x1080? By the way, I installed on real hardware, not a VM Thanks for all the great videos :-)
after the first reboot that you told me to do, it asked me to login. I typed the correct login credentials that I put when I set up the passwd and host name, but it says incorrect login. Can anybody help me?
I am getting an error when I do "grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda the gpt partition label contains no bios boot partionl embedding won't be possible. Grub can only be insyalled in this setup by using blocklists.Howeber blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged. error: woll not procceed with blocklist
So if you have a legacy system you have two options. Creating a disk with the dos disk label (most common) and gpt label (which is standard for UEFI systems). If you choose to use gpt on a legacy system a special bios boot partition is required, hence the error. I have a video on the channel explaining all these differences.
hi, while i tried to install, i see a key that repeats it self every second and when i set my passwd for root i cant do it since that key shows up the key that it shows is ^@ what does that mean
@@eflinux A lot of customizing, puh...but I think I'm almost done! One thing tho, recommend adjust the layout of the keyboard, loadkeys, in my case to sv-latin1, before installing, somewhat annoying trying to locate the right key otherwise.
Thanks for the question. No, it's not. But many times you might end up with needing other packages, and to make things more simple I install from the beginning for most cases.
This is the best arch Linux installation video I have stumbled upon by far. However, when I reboot after unmounting the disks, I can see my hostname(arch login in this case) and when I try to put my name and password I realise that you haven’t added a user yet after unmounting the disks, just the password in this case, so I’m stuck at the login screen
You should be able to login as root and password. Also, make sure you check out newer tutorials. I have videos for the base install only and then videos for building DE.
Good evening Good on the other hand I seek to install vivaldi brother on Arch but it does not appear in Pacman, how should it be done? or do you have a link which explains the installation Thank you
Hi there! Vivaldi can not be installed with pacman. It is a package available in the AUR, so you can install it manually from there, or, if you have YAY installed you can install it with that. Cheers :)
Hi, when I rebooted and tried to enable the wifi (systemctl start NeworkManager and systemctl enable NeworkManager), it says the NetworkManager.service does not exists. I followed step by step but somehow this slipped in the installation somehow. Should I go back to the live installation and download the package, and if so, what should the command be?
Yes, you can boot from the live iso, mount directly the partitions, make arch-chroot /mnt, and install networkmanager and network-mamager-applet. Then just enable the service and afterwards you can reboot.
Hello, although I installed grub and configured it exactly as shown in the video, it still won't boot. Any thoughts on what the problem might be? (on HP probook 6560b). Thanks
@@eflinux Same issue for myself. Followed installation with no problem. GRUB loader comes up with Arch but after that just blank screen forever. Could it be due to using 64 instead of 32 computer and need to modify some instructions?
my only question is: since i can't use UEFI in my notebook (somehow), i see no other option like "x86_64-pc" to install the 64-bit system on a MBR, so what do i do now? edit: it seems like it is 64bit here, so nevermind this comment
Great video. I'm having an issue and I can't seem to find a solution for it anywhere. Everything with the install goes great up to the point where i reboot to the xfce login screen. The touchpad on my laptop isn't working for one thing, but most importantly I'm locked in a login loop. I type in my password the screen goes black for a second and then I'm right back at the login screen. I tried going back and doing the install again from scratch and the exact same thing happened. I'm on my third attempt now but I think I'm going to try gdm instead of xorg. I installing this on a Gateway N214 with an AMD dual core cpu and Radeon graphics. Thanks
@@eflinux Thanks. I've got it working now. The touchpad still doesn't work though. And from what I can tell, the system is recognizing it, it just doesn't work.
@@eflinux It is. I've been trying everything but I can't find a solution. The strange thing is that this laptop has had multiple linux distros on it and the touchpad has always worked. There has to be a solution out there.
If you're installing on Virtual Box make sure to select VBoxSvga in the machine settings and disabled 3d acceleration. Also, make sure you installed the standard lightdm greeter, otherwise you see only a black screen at boot. Cheers :)
Try installing with "pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter". As for the drivers you'll have to play around in the WM settings. I can't remember what options are available in Wmware.
I have problems installing Arch on my laptop because the hard drive - an eMMC - is not recognized by the installer. Does someone has any idea? Thank you very much!
this is by far one of the best arch installation guide video, clear cut and simple, thank you very much!
Thanks!
Yes especially for bios systems
Hi, I just followed your installation on this video and it worked first time! I have been trying to install Arch for 3 days following other people's installation RUclips videos and yours is the only one that worked! Excellent video and many thanks!
Simon, UK
Hey thanks! I’m really happy you liked it and thanks for the support!
Fantastic tutorial and super clear English. Thank you so much. I'm now a Linux Arch user for the first time!
Hey Darryl! Thank you so for your feedback! Glad you enjoyed it! Let me know how you like Arch and hope to see you on March 14th for the live stream:)
Hey still on arch or moved to Gentoo?
Arch :)
@@eflinux Hey, there. I am actually stuck at the partitioning part. When I type cfdisk /dev/sda, it doesn’t ask me for label type, which messed up the whole grub process resulting the computer to unable to boot. Any fix for this? Thanks a lot for your time..
Hi! Just to make sure, is your system Legacy or UEFI?
You are a LEGEND
Took me 6 hrs until I stumbled upon this tutorial and got saved from drowning
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much, I was having problems with the partitions and grub, your tutorial helped me clarify my mistakes, I was selecting the gpt label instead of the dos
Hey glad it helped! Cheers :)
Good evening,
By far the best tutorial I have seen to install Arch Linux !! I even managed my first installation in two years of testing. Bravo for this tutorial which explains very well and above all which takes a lot of time to explain and show us what is going on.
I will now continue with an installation in UEFI thanks to the other tutorial and all on my new computer.
Thanks again
Thank you so much! Glad it helped!
Precise, short, thorough, and easy to digest just the way I like it!
Thanks for help, I did have some trouble with grub and had to install the partitions a bit differently to fix it but its all working good now.
Hey! Thanks for letting me know! My I ask what was the problem? It might help someone else facing the same situation:)
@@eflinux When trying to install grub with the grub-install command i got this error.
grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
So i created Bios boot partition on my hard drive for 200MB and formatted it to ext4. when i got to the part of the installation to install grub it worked without any errors.
Thanks for the reply. That happens when you create a GPT label on an MBR system. In this case Grub looks for a bootable boot partition. If the disk label is DOS, then Grub should install fine on /dev/sdx, where x is the name of your disk. Thanks for watch the video! Cheers:)
Thanks very much for this. I'm a complete newb, but following this I now have Arch installed on an ancient Acer Aspire laptop that was otherwise heading for the bin!
Great to hear!
Even at 64 years old I was able to follow and install Arch. Other Arch videos assume you know what to do next or they explain so fast I just could not follow. Some did not talk about there being a difference between UEIF and BIOS install. THANKS my friend!!! There is a cold beer waiting for you in south TEXAS!
Thanks for the feedback!!
Thanks a lot! This video helped me a lot in installing arch linux! Even better than the installation guide on the arch linux website! 🙂
Hey thanks for the feedback! Glad you liked it :)
@@eflinux I tried to install Arch in my Lenovo ThinkPad E540 followed different youtuber but at EFI command after long process it said my machine is not compatible with EFI. Any idea? Is that mean I should use this method to install? Bios method?
Probably yes. When you boot the ISO do you see the coloured menu? If so, you're booting on BIOS.
This brother helped me alot thanks. I was struggling to install arch on my low end pc for 4 days and finally found this video. And guess what? It WORKED!! Thanks a lot i appreciate it very much 💪🏽
i put your video in a playlist so every time i install arch i watch your video it’s awesome
Many thanks..this is the better archlinux install guide on RUclips. Thanks a lot for sharing..
Glad it helped!
Thank you for the information about how to get wireless connections working. I was able to find info on wifi-menu at initial installation time but the use of nmtui was the most invaluable. I had tried arch installation via multiple you-tube presentation and only was wifi-menu mentioned. After you comment on nmtui could I find info in archwiki and even that was somewhat between the lines.
Much appreciated
Thanks Robert! I'm glad the video was helpful :)
Followed exactly and thank you for the guide!
17/09/2020
brother is the best of the tutorials that I have seen I am from Venezuela and the tutorials in my language in Spanish are not well designed thanks excellent, keep going so you won another subscriber .... thank you
Thanks Alex!
A great tutorial, also a one that works. Thanks
Note: if grub wont install use "grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda --force" (just add --force in the end)
3 weeks of finding and your tutorial is the answer i will sub to you as a gift lol ty
Thanks! First time Arch install... I'm an old Slackware, debian, RH, Centos. Caldera, Fedora man.. oh yeah used to run Gentoo.. lol.. probably forgot a couple..
Yo you are one of the greatest legend on earth, finally after so much of trying I m arch linux user.... Thanx
I own computers that run a variety of operating systems, especially Arch and Openbsd and I have not seen such a good and short guide in a long time. With a guide like this I can let Newbie install Arch with his eyes closed. Well done!
I have a half dozen old BIOS laptops. Used this video to install Archlinux on the first one. Works great, nice video. I had no problems at all. What to do with the rest?
Try some distros like Linux Lite or Linux Mint.
was wondering why grub was booting into the grub terminal, turns out my dumb ass forgot to generate the config file lol. Thanks for the video, it really helped!
Best Arch guide on the internet. Thanks Ermanno.
This is amazing, i'm new in the Linux world. And people always said 'Arch' was very difficult to install. Seems kinda easy now :)
Thank you very much! The first time I put it with your help. I'm from Russia.
Thanks a lot, after 3 times failed installing arch, and finally it works👏🙌👍
very clearly explanation, nice..Thanks again
Hey great! Happy it worked out!
@@eflinux Yes it is, and now i am gonna try to instal kde plasma on my arch😂
Let me know how it goes!
@@eflinux yes i will👌
This helped more than the other videos that i saw thanks.
Glad it helped!
I have and old Notebook Intel Atom n280 1.6 ghz whit 2 GB ram and 120 GB SSD i was able to install perfectly archlinux32 for 32 Bits systems Following this guide
I watched a lot of videos to install my old laptop and your guide worked like a charm. thnak you so much dude! i love you
Now I can say "i use arch btw" ;)
I was kinda lost with the documentation. This video helped me a lot. Nice video, bro
Thanx . it's helpful.
Thanxxxxx
This my first using of arch linux .
I try many time but this only i succeed
Hey! That’s great! Congrats! Let me know how you like Arch! :)
You really made it simple. Thanks a lot bro worked like a charm 😁
Very clear, and very detailed tutorial. Thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful!
I am another grateful viewer of your exellent tutorials.
I followed this tutorial to see if I could get arch installed on my HP Probook 6470b with mbr. Other tutorials for uefi failed. I could in most cases boot using bios. But Arch could not start by it self
So was the case even this time. But I had previously watched a tutorial on how to partition for mbr. This guy set his /dev/sda2 (root) to bootable.
So I used cfdisk to set my /dev/sda2 to bootable. Voilá. It works. How come you did not have to do that?
Now I am a happy beginner to Arch again
Some laptops required a special partitioning like having a gpt label with mbr. In that case you’ll need a boot bootable partition.
Damn buddy…smoothly switched to Arch Linux…Great Buddy❤🎉
Yes this video works great in 2023 I tried it step by step.
Excellent!
Thanks a lot man, this was very helpful
You’re welcome! Glad it helped you out!
Thannnks from Russia ) !! It works
Hey thanks! Glad you liked it:)
this is literally the best tutorial on youtube
Dude I love you so much I had a lot of problems with driver problems (This system has a really old gpu) with a previous install but you helped me out a lot thanks!
My pleasure!
Thanks dude! I just installed Arch on VMware!
still one of the best installation guide
Good explanation bro :>)
Thanks! 😃
THANK YOU SO MUCH I HAD SO MANY HEADACHES TRYING TO DO THIS. You're a life saver (Sub+Like earned)
Hi, great tutorial! But I'm getting stuck after the first boot, trying to connect to my wifi. My network won't show up in the nmtui activate menu, and I've tried adding it manually, but it still won't show up :(
Find you WiFi adapter name with ip a, then type ip link adaptername up and try again.
Awesome !!! 👏 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 great instruction!!! Thanks.... !!!!
Hey thanks for the feedback! Glad it helped you :)
Thanks for the clean and clear instructions ,now I am able to install Arch Linux on my system. Used 3 of your videos as reference to create MBR/GPT partition/Installing Arch/installing KDE desktop.
I was trying for last few months to install but only after going through your videos I could able to install without any issues, thanks a lot. 👍
Thanks for the feedback!
Top content and presentation! It works fine!
Thanks, nmtui command saved my day xD
Glad I could help!
Hello, your accent seemed similar to another RUclipsr i know. Do you perchance live in, or near Switzerland?
Also, i installed everything, though when i try to boot into arch, i get thrown into this maintenance thing and it says that according to the superblock, sda2 is however many blocks in size, but the physical size of it is less, meaning there may be corruption. I'm trying to fix it, but it may have something to do with when i added a BIOS boot partition later, because it would not let me select DOS
Edit: i figured out the problem, some point along the way with the process this superblock says sda2 is some size, then later i resize it down to make a BIOS partition, then other stuff n stuff. I'm low on time, so i don't want to search how to figure that out so i am restarting the process.
Got it to work, thanks, great video!
Best channel for Arch Linux
Thanks!
@@eflinux Is lxdm better than lightdm? And also, would you do video about ArchLinux ARM? Thanks again :)
I'd say LightDM is more up to date and cross-platform, so yes, I'd go with LighDM.
@@eflinux If the error "Operation too slow" appears, will it automatic redownload the failed package later?
You can try to re download again. Also, try maybe refreshing the mirrorlist.
Thank you, great guide!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have found this tutorial. Thanks.
You're welcome!
Thx for video! One question: I have no network icon on panel, what to do?
You really helped me out, thank you. İs there any way i can support you financially ?
Hi Timur! Yes, you can become a Patreon (patreon.com) or you can donate via PayPal on our website. Thanks for your support!
Thank you so much. Great tutorial.
What a great tutorial!! thank you!!!
You're welcome Jose!
19:52 the "pacman -S" didnt work for me, it returned a bunch of 404 errors. At last the command that worked for me is this one "pacman -Syu" i should have upgrade distro as well. In general this is an awesome video tutorial! Thanks a lot and di not stop helping us with your tutorials!
Thank you a lot
You are welcome :)
just perfect! Thanks a lot!
Is "grub-install --target=i386-pc" for a 64 bit system as well? figured that out it's cool... now to get it to fit the whole screen but I'm very pleased 1st time I have succeeded.
Yes, it refers only to the legacy system (non UEFI)
amaizing brother!
best youtube channel ever
Hello, I've done everything as in the video. When I reboot, the bios says that there is not a boot device, while the grub said it was successful at installation and generation of config file
I've installed grub on the first sector of /dev/sda everything was typed out correctly, double checked
My laptop "supports" UEFI (I've manually enabled that), but when I tried to install it with UEFI it said that there are no efivars, so I disabled UEFI in the BIOS, and tried with this video, but now this happens.
To add, I've split partitions like you did, /dev/sda1 for swap, and /dev/sda2 for ext4, the file table is DOS.
What could be the problem?
It just works! Thank you
You are a lifesaver man.
the only video that has helped me
When rebooting what should happen, it started again from 0 and does not reconigze NetworkManager command, i dont know what to do, i am in a virtual machine in virtual box thank you very much
My keylayout is lost, i dont know how to fix it
Well, i know what was my problem, but now i dont know what my i should type in my user login can someone help me
I don't know what happened there. If you are on the terminal and you didn't create the user you can login as root with your root password.
@@eflinux it worked, but i crested my user login, well ghanks anyways
Thank you very much!
I keep receiving a “login incorrect” message when rebooting to existing os. What part did I miss where I made the login usr? I have my password from passwd and in the hostname file I wrote phat with the same in hosts
Nevermind I found that it’s root then password
Thank you bro you helped me
hi Ermanno, I followed you and got to the desktop just fine. My only problem is that I cannot change the resolution to 1920x1080. I installed the nvidia drivers using the commands
you suggested. The best I can get is 1024x768. What can I do to get to 1920x1080? By the way, I installed on real hardware, not a VM
Thanks for all the great videos :-)
Did you installl xorg? If so try using xrandr on the terminal to find out your monitor name. Then use xrandr --output DisplayName --mode 1920x1080.
You are kingggg broo kinggg . Thank you
Thanks man :)
Thank you soo much 🙏🙏
You’re welcome! Glad you liked it!
Hello, it does not allow me to pick the dos option at the beginning it automatically picks GPT?
this is a good guide thx
Thanks!
Damnn.. you missed the htop. Anyways how much ram it used at startup ?
after the first reboot that you told me to do, it asked me to login. I typed the correct login credentials that I put when I set up the passwd and host name, but it says incorrect login. Can anybody help me?
Help when i tried to give new user sudo access, i have this error: -bash: visudo: command not found
Make sure the base-devel is installed.
Ah thats what i am missing thanks a lot for this tutorial, its very clear
I am getting an error when I do "grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
the gpt partition label contains no bios boot partionl embedding won't be possible. Grub can only be insyalled in this setup by using blocklists.Howeber blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged. error: woll not procceed with blocklist
So if you have a legacy system you have two options. Creating a disk with the dos disk label (most common) and gpt label (which is standard for UEFI systems). If you choose to use gpt on a legacy system a special bios boot partition is required, hence the error. I have a video on the channel explaining all these differences.
hi, while i tried to install, i see a key that repeats it self every second and when i set my passwd for root i cant do it since that key shows up
the key that it shows is ^@
what does that mean
Nice! Thanks
You bet!
@@eflinux A lot of customizing, puh...but I think I'm almost done! One thing tho, recommend adjust the layout of the keyboard, loadkeys, in my case to sv-latin1, before installing, somewhat annoying trying to locate the right key otherwise.
That's so true about customizing, XFCE needs lots of it. And thanks for the note about the keyboard. Will included in future videos.
Is it mandatory to install whole xorg group or is xorg-server enough?
Thanks for the question. No, it's not. But many times you might end up with needing other packages, and to make things more simple I install from the beginning for most cases.
This is the best arch Linux installation video I have stumbled upon by far. However, when I reboot after unmounting the disks, I can see my hostname(arch login in this case) and when I try to put my name and password I realise that you haven’t added a user yet after unmounting the disks, just the password in this case, so I’m stuck at the login screen
You should be able to login as root and password. Also, make sure you check out newer tutorials. I have videos for the base install only and then videos for building DE.
@@eflinux I sure will check it out. By the way, I was able to login as root and the password that I created. Thanks for such an amazing tutorial.
Good evening
Good on the other hand I seek to install vivaldi brother on Arch but it does not appear in Pacman, how should it be done? or do you have a link which explains the installation
Thank you
Hi there! Vivaldi can not be installed with pacman. It is a package available in the AUR, so you can install it manually from there, or, if you have YAY installed you can install it with that. Cheers :)
Great video, I had a problem where I need to add a Bios boot partition in order to install grub.
Do you have a legacy system?
@@eflinux I don't Think so , but I am no expert, just thought I'd mention it incase anyone had a similar issue.
Is the dual boot installation the same with this?
What do we do at the GNU GRUB screen…
Hi, when I rebooted and tried to enable the wifi (systemctl start NeworkManager and systemctl enable NeworkManager), it says the NetworkManager.service does not exists. I followed step by step but somehow this slipped in the installation somehow. Should I go back to the live installation and download the package, and if so, what should the command be?
Yes, you can boot from the live iso, mount directly the partitions, make arch-chroot /mnt, and install networkmanager and network-mamager-applet. Then just enable the service and afterwards you can reboot.
btw I am connected through an ethernet cable
In this case when you will reboot you should have in internet connection automatically.
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Hello, although I installed grub and configured it exactly as shown in the video, it still won't boot. Any thoughts on what the problem might be? (on HP probook 6560b). Thanks
Can you be a little more specific on what happens when you boot?
@@eflinux Same issue for myself. Followed installation with no problem. GRUB loader comes up with Arch but after that just blank screen forever. Could it be due to using 64 instead of 32 computer and need to modify some instructions?
If you installed the xf86-video-intel driver, remove it and let the modsetting driver installed.
@@eflinux okay will try that thank you
Saved me! Tks
Hi, what if i already have 3 partitions (/root, /swap, /home) and wanted to install arch using the same /home partition, is that possible?
Yes, if you're ok overwriting everything.
@@eflinux so i have to format the /home partition again ? and how do i make arch installer use my /home partition for $HOME?
You will have to create the directory and mount it. I have videos for that on the channel.
@@eflinux yeah i have just watched it, it was helpful, thanks for the effort
What if I would like to install KDE ?
ps : I tried to replace lxdm by ode m but it it didn't work .
should i set /dev/sda as bootable?
my only question is: since i can't use UEFI in my notebook (somehow), i see no other option like "x86_64-pc" to install the 64-bit system on a MBR, so what do i do now?
edit: it seems like it is 64bit here, so nevermind this comment
No problem! Glad it worked!
Great video. I'm having an issue and I can't seem to find a solution for it anywhere. Everything with the install goes great up to the point where i reboot to the xfce login screen. The touchpad on my laptop isn't working for one thing, but most importantly I'm locked in a login loop. I type in my password the screen goes black for a second and then I'm right back at the login screen. I tried going back and doing the install again from scratch and the exact same thing happened. I'm on my third attempt now but I think I'm going to try gdm instead of xorg. I installing this on a Gateway N214 with an AMD dual core cpu and Radeon graphics. Thanks
Hi! In this case I suggest you have a look at the Radeon wiki for Arch. There might be another driver to install.
@@eflinux Thanks. I've got it working now. The touchpad still doesn't work though. And from what I can tell, the system is recognizing it, it just doesn't work.
Check if the xf86-input-libinput is installed.
@@eflinux It is. I've been trying everything but I can't find a solution. The strange thing is that this laptop has had multiple linux distros on it and the touchpad has always worked. There has to be a solution out there.
Have you tried the synaptic drivers?
Thank you for save my asus x401u 2gb ram,
when i reboot my device after downloading xfce4 and other things i see a black screen
If you're installing on Virtual Box make sure to select VBoxSvga in the machine settings and disabled 3d acceleration. Also, make sure you installed the standard lightdm greeter, otherwise you see only a black screen at boot. Cheers :)
For installing standard lightdm greeter should i use pacman
And i am installing on vmware
So what should i do for vmware
Try installing with "pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter". As for the drivers you'll have to play around in the WM settings. I can't remember what options are available in Wmware.
I have problems installing Arch on my laptop because the hard drive - an eMMC - is not recognized by the installer. Does someone has any idea? Thank you very much!