Great video, but a big heads up to those that have an MSI motherboard. Certain MSI bios versions will not recognize the default GRUB installation path and boot to the bios instead, bypassing GRUB entirely. The fix is simple though instead of 'grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB' simply add the --removable flag like below. grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot *--removable* --bootloader-id=GRUB hopefully this will save someone the hours of frustration I just went through.
woah i have been having an issue where i was getting the "insert boot media" error for months. I've attempted to install it dozens of times and I even made a post on the arch subreddit trying to fix it and they said it was due to my MSI motherboard. This will be huge if this fixes it, I used arch last summer for a few months and loved it but ever since then it hasn't been working. Either way, thanks for posting
3 DAYS TO DO IT LETS GOOO. I had to restart multiple times due to issues with the USB i was installing from, and i hopped around multiple videos on my phone to figure it all out. Now i can finally say the words… I use Arch btw.
Exactly what I searched for. Explained in very good speed. Not too fast, not too slow. And also shown where the information is coming from. Im really excited. Thank you so much. Please a video how to continue with installing a gui. That would be great :-). Thank you so much!
Thanks for taking the time to put this video together. Could you please put up a would be 'sequel' to this one. I'm a Gnome user and a zsh user, I really like your customizations and I'm sure there are others who do to. I'd like to see how you setup your workspace. Cheers.
I have to say thanks for making this installation guide. It's concise compared to other lengthy guides, and give good enough explanation for me to complete install. BTW I choose syslinux for bootloader, and by following the official guide, it worked.
Love the tutorial, you explained things other tutorials don't. Thanks for that! I wish you would have finished the installation after installing a desktop environment.
@@opensourcehome8586 Gnome is perfectly fine. It's just I wanted to see your perspective because every time I install Arch with Gnome it feels like Vanilla Gnome is too bloated. Granted I've been using ArchFi to do my installs. I am looking for a Gnome that is as minimal as possible. If you look at Gnome as Pop! OS does it, you would understand where am I trying to get at. I am attempting to install Arch on RAID 0 and BTRFS, and so far I am only able to boot using ArchFi all the way to having a desktop environment. If I reboot before installing the desktop environment, something in the mkinitcpio or initramfs is not finding its way to the RAID. I really don't know what I am missing. But thanks to your video I have learned a little more than before. The goal is to install it without ArchFi because using a script is not teaching me anything.
You don't use Arch to install then fucking bloated Gnome... Use KDE, xfce or a WM like i3 (for X11) / sway (for Wayland). But Gnome? Please... Leave that to Ubuntu peasants
Hey, I followed your tutorial and where you are supposed to see the grub menu, I get 'Minimal BASH-like line....' I read that it's a common grub bug but I can't understand how to fix it. If you know the solution please let me know
Have installed Arch, thank you a lot! That was a dream came true, your tutorial significantly helped!) If you feel energy and interest, tutorials about dual boot, after installation tutorials would be helpful. Goold luck!
Excellent video. When you created the partitions was that for installing arch on a computer with a dedicated linux operating system or a computer have dual operating systems? I never installed a new operating system on a computer, so this is all new to me but it is in my future plans.
Wow I'm glad you know your linux DOO, DOO; I downloaded the Arch Linux core 86, 64 iSO and man It was complicated. I said there's got to be an easier way to install this, without deleting other OS'S...
I installed arch with KDE plasma and pulseaudio + pulseaudio-alsa but there's no sound. I had already unmuted alsamixer and I see in pavucontrol his cursor moving when playing a YT video, but still no sound. Any idea? Thx
Thanks for the video...I am howver stuck: I am in the network setting up part of the video (28:18 or so and onward) and after writing the information in nano I save to the buffer and then try and hit enter on the next screen that gives the FIle Name to Write...howeever when I hit enter an error is thrown that says that there is an error writing to iti as the /etc/systemd/networkd/20-wired.network does not exist. How to fix this? Also for the record when I ran networkctl list by IDX number 2 was eno1 instead of ens18.....thanks!
I would like to see a video how to migrate an existing Arch system into a different laptop with new ssd. I was looking for archwiki for it and have realized the top to bottom method with rsync would do it but i have some question what i could not sort it out. For example if the old system is intel and the new one is AMD. That would make the process a bit tricky...At least for me. :) So a video tutorial about this would be appreciated. Thanks.
I'm currently stuck at the grub installation, it errors out with something like show_order(): Interrupted system call then a bunch of Skipping ureadable variable "BootXXXX": Interrupted system call. Not really sure what do to about it
lol wait just a min ! I feel like i have my pants down around my ankles here.. i tried to ssh from my other pc on the network and it wont accept the password. either in root, or the user I created. also, i can't see any filesystem, nothing shows up when I type "ls" any help would be greatly appreciated.
i think you try to do that for a virtual machine, in that case you need to brigde the connection, then "ifconfig" in the vm and you get the ip address to connect the ssh (sorry for the syntax, im not a native english speaker)
I was good right up until you magically opened a new ssh terminal and typed the ip Addy. How the heck did you do that ? I was good following along until that happened
You rock!! I managed to get it working.. but only works for a couple of seconds. I think somethings interfering with it :/ but once I do t he systemctl restart for both, then quickly do pacman -S etcetcetc it works lol
Followed the whole thing through until the end where I had to get online. I only have WiFi and can’t get it to connect whatsoever. 5th attempt at an Arch Install with nothing to show for it.
i got it installed but had some problems booted back on the usb dit mount and install some more stuff using pacman then was able to setup wifi in arch it self thank god
@@twistedbunny any form of disposable storage will do, thumb drives, external hard drives, external ssd's, a fucking disk reader, whatever you want for as long as your pc can read and write data from it
I guess you get asked this frequently or I could just make a search for it but I'm still curious to know what you think. Do you have any desktop environment recommendations?
Personally, I hse gnome. Its really user friendly, and is up and running in a matter of minutes. Install with sudo pacman -Sy gnome , and then start / enable the gdm service sudo systemctl start gdm
You should try brtfs partition with snapper. It makes easier to recover if you break your installation. It's a little more involved when installing, but worth it.
I am at the point now where i can log into root, and my user that I created. but ls command doesn't show any file system. i tried to re-mount the boot and sda2, but after reboot when I type lsblk, the boot and sda2 don't show up as mounted. but they do show up. any ideas?
This isn't difficult to do, but I wonder why they haven't made an official GUI installer. Is it extremely hard to do, or do they have so much of a puritan/elitist attitude they're keeping it tedious just for the sake of being tedious? I'd shudder at that thought of my OS ever needing to be reinstalled.
It really depends on your workload, 24 is a good amount for most desktop use. I would recommend that you keep some free space leftover on your drive so you can add swap later when needed, or extend your home partition if it ever needs additional space.
23:27 is where i couldn't continue.. after running the grub installer it kept failing because my laptop doesn't have efi enabled?? "efi variables are not supported on this system"
The tuto is good but it definitely doesn't work irl! It would be great if someone shows how to install the Arch Linux on laptop with wireless WPA connection! Everything else is kindergarten - half of the job is already done by default bc of the VM. Thanks though.
Systemd-networkd is dumb and refused to work, network manager saved the day. If you need to go back, you can reboot to the live USB, remount your root directory and pacstrap on any packages you didn't think you needed
I love that is no background music so I can vibe to my own playlist while doing this.
Synthwave.
So you feel like hackerman.
Great video, but a big heads up to those that have an MSI motherboard. Certain MSI bios versions will not recognize the default GRUB installation path and boot to the bios instead, bypassing GRUB entirely. The fix is simple though instead of 'grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB' simply add the --removable flag like below.
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot *--removable* --bootloader-id=GRUB
hopefully this will save someone the hours of frustration I just went through.
Thank you so much, I was stuck installing arch but this fixed my problem ily nohomo
@@gøckłøłe Glad to help
Thank you so much I love you 🥰😍😍😍 you saved my life 😂
woah i have been having an issue where i was getting the "insert boot media" error for months. I've attempted to install it dozens of times and I even made a post on the arch subreddit trying to fix it and they said it was due to my MSI motherboard. This will be huge if this fixes it, I used arch last summer for a few months and loved it but ever since then it hasn't been working. Either way, thanks for posting
@@reconstructedrichard208 I think this might be the same issue, with it looking for the wrong path. Let me know if it works, seems like it should.
I'm very glad you take time to explain a) what happens, b) where to look for alternatives in guide.
Thanks a lot!
3 DAYS TO DO IT LETS GOOO. I had to restart multiple times due to issues with the USB i was installing from, and i hopped around multiple videos on my phone to figure it all out.
Now i can finally say the words…
I use Arch btw.
Exactly what I searched for. Explained in very good speed. Not too fast, not too slow. And also shown where the information is coming from. Im really excited. Thank you so much.
Please a video how to continue with installing a gui. That would be great :-).
Thank you so much!
"I use Arch BTW" -is the only reason I wanted to install Arch. 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah same here... I don't regret tho.
I want to get Arch because when I tell people I use Ubuntu, it's not special. Gotta be special.
Same here, I wanted a challenge, managed to install the damn thing. REBOOT, now I gotta try and get my damn net working. And I'm using static ip :(
@Raphael Gideon Sure. Nice ad anyways
you're a bot
Thanks for taking the time to put this video together. Could you please put up a would be 'sequel' to this one. I'm a Gnome user and a zsh user, I really like your customizations and I'm sure there are others who do to. I'd like to see how you setup your workspace. Cheers.
Me too
Cool But Need Another Video Because I'm Installing It On Real PC
I have to say thanks for making this installation guide. It's concise compared to other lengthy guides, and give good enough explanation for me to complete install. BTW I choose syslinux for bootloader, and by following the official guide, it worked.
Thank you very much. I followed your instruction and installed arch for the first time :)
i really dont get what should i do after flashing in etcher, from where he opened that black terminal??
@@haykmanukyan5462 you press f11(or similar) when quickly prompted as your computer starts up and choose to boot from usb
I'll admit, I found DistroTube's instruction clearer. I do like the fact that you explained systemd-networkd.
Love the tutorial, you explained things other tutorials don't. Thanks for that! I wish you would have finished the installation after installing a desktop environment.
Perhaps I will do a part 2, and install a desktop environment, which one would you like to see?
@@opensourcehome8586 Gnome is perfectly fine. It's just I wanted to see your perspective because every time I install Arch with Gnome it feels like Vanilla Gnome is too bloated. Granted I've been using ArchFi to do my installs. I am looking for a Gnome that is as minimal as possible. If you look at Gnome as Pop! OS does it, you would understand where am I trying to get at.
I am attempting to install Arch on RAID 0 and BTRFS, and so far I am only able to boot using ArchFi all the way to having a desktop environment. If I reboot before installing the desktop environment, something in the mkinitcpio or initramfs is not finding its way to the RAID. I really don't know what I am missing. But thanks to your video I have learned a little more than before. The goal is to install it without ArchFi because using a script is not teaching me anything.
@@opensourcehome8586 KDE, please. Thanks!
You don't use Arch to install then fucking bloated Gnome... Use KDE, xfce or a WM like i3 (for X11) / sway (for Wayland).
But Gnome? Please... Leave that to Ubuntu peasants
@@d3lt4X telling it like it is, i used gnome once, my system fucking died multiple times.
Great job, thank you for the video, just what I wanted to see today!
Happy to help
is there any chanse u can make a video about offline installation? Like download packages before installation and just install them to the machine?
Thanks, I'm new to Arch and this helped a lot!
This guide saved my ass. I got to the formatting and completely screwed up going by the wiki
I was missing the network setup stuff and was beating my head (and keyboard). Thanks so much!
How did you fix it?
I have the same problem
Hey, I followed your tutorial and where you are supposed to see the grub menu, I get 'Minimal BASH-like line....'
I read that it's a common grub bug but I can't understand how to fix it. If you know the solution please let me know
Yeah same
Thank you very much from a fellow Canuck in the NCR. What to do during a pandemic... learn Arch of course : )
Worked like a charm! Thanks mate.
Thanks for this. Quick and to the point!
its a nice tutorial. I wondee who the heck is that 30 people who thumbs down
Have installed Arch, thank you a lot! That was a dream came true, your tutorial significantly helped!)
If you feel energy and interest, tutorials about dual boot, after installation tutorials would be helpful.
Goold luck!
Excellent video. When you created the partitions was that for installing arch on a computer with a dedicated linux operating system or a computer have dual operating systems? I never installed a new operating system on a computer, so this is all new to me but it is in my future plans.
How can I get my Desktop Environment? The whole thing is command line after installation.
Look up gnome on the arch wiki, that should give you the info you need to get started
text based is better
Wow I'm glad you know your linux DOO, DOO; I downloaded the Arch Linux core 86, 64 iSO and man It was complicated. I said there's got to be an easier way to install this, without deleting other OS'S...
this video legit saved me thanks so much
No problem man
How do you make your top bar of apps like that? What DE, seem very sick, simple with only close button.
I installed arch with KDE plasma and pulseaudio + pulseaudio-alsa but there's no sound. I had already unmuted alsamixer and I see in pavucontrol his cursor moving when playing a YT video, but still no sound. Any idea? Thx
For some reason it said Errors for me that new root or something and that pacman packages had a invalid argument, im using virtual box
followed everything and installation failed sitting at minimal bash-like line editing is supported....
I'm on Manjaro with a boot partition already made. Do i need to make another one?
No, you can use the same one.
Thanks for the video...I am howver stuck: I am in the network setting up part of the video (28:18 or so and onward) and after writing the information in nano I save to the buffer and then try and hit enter on the next screen that gives the FIle Name to Write...howeever when I hit enter an error is thrown that says that there is an error writing to iti as the /etc/systemd/networkd/20-wired.network does not exist. How to fix this? Also for the record when I ran
networkctl list by IDX number 2 was eno1 instead of ens18.....thanks!
If your already on Linux you could also use dd to make your bootable USB stick
linux users when they have to learn a progamming language to install an os
I would like to see a video how to migrate an existing Arch system into a different laptop with new ssd. I was looking for archwiki for it and have realized the top to bottom method with rsync would do it but i have some question what i could not sort it out. For example if the old system is intel and the new one is AMD. That would make the process a bit tricky...At least for me. :) So a video tutorial about this would be appreciated. Thanks.
Remember when LILO was default. I do.
Is there a reason why you don't use one of the existing arch installers?
To be honest, I havent tried any of them. Next time I need to do an install I will certainly look into them
Hey i just finished flashing from etcher and set the uefi boot order how come it didnt boot, NO NOTHING at all?
What OS/Distro are you running in this video?
Dude has metamask! awesome bro
in my case when im going to mount the ext4 partition the error "mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'" please help, i dont know what is wrong
I'm currently stuck at the grub installation, it errors out with something like show_order(): Interrupted system call then a bunch of Skipping ureadable variable "BootXXXX": Interrupted system call. Not really sure what do to about it
My bootloader is set to UEFI btw
Once I’m done with grub I try to restart and nothing happens. My bios says there is no bootable system. How can I fix
I'm really not sure of what I'm saying
But on arch linux website it is said not to create an efi patition if you already have a windows one
Ahh I just realized it works cause you're on a virtual machine
lol wait just a min ! I feel like i have my pants down around my ankles here.. i tried to ssh from my other pc on the network and it wont accept the password. either in root, or the user I created. also, i can't see any filesystem, nothing shows up when I type "ls" any help would be greatly appreciated.
How to do the internet thing when you're using ethernet cable?(Static IP)
i think you try to do that for a virtual machine, in that case you need to brigde the connection, then "ifconfig" in the vm and you get the ip address to connect the ssh (sorry for the syntax, im not a native english speaker)
I was good right up until you magically opened a new ssh terminal and typed the ip Addy. How the heck did you do that ? I was good following along until that happened
What desktop environment do you use, please?
You rock!! I managed to get it working.. but only works for a couple of seconds. I think somethings interfering with it :/
but once I do t he systemctl restart for both, then quickly do pacman -S etcetcetc it works lol
I have NVIDIA GPU and NVIDIA drivers would it work?
Should work fine, just install the nvidia package before you install your desktop environment
Followed the whole thing through until the end where I had to get online. I only have WiFi and can’t get it to connect whatsoever. 5th attempt at an Arch Install with nothing to show for it.
Great guide, thanks!
Nice wallpaper, can you post an link to it, please?
i got it installed but had some problems booted back on the usb dit mount and install some more stuff using pacman then was able to setup wifi in arch it self thank god
Glad you got it working!
I'm new to this. Why use a mirror over a torrent?
my wlan0 interface is still down
In cgdisk, what code would you use for a home partition? (Example code ef00 for boot, 8200 for swap)
8300, /home is just another linux filesystem.
@@opensourcehome8586 Thanks
How much ram should I have if I want my arch Linux to run smoothly?
Hey You can use this command to change the font and make it a little big with this command
- setfont /user/share/kbd/consolefonts/sun12x22.psfu.gz
thanks thes video very good! my very help
How would i go about this if i don't have a thumb drive?
Buy one
@@Spencerk468 😐........🤷♂️
@@twistedbunny any form of disposable storage will do, thumb drives, external hard drives, external ssd's, a fucking disk reader, whatever you want for as long as your pc can read and write data from it
I guess you get asked this frequently or I could just make a search for it but I'm still curious to know what you think. Do you have any desktop environment recommendations?
Personally, I hse gnome. Its really user friendly, and is up and running in a matter of minutes. Install with sudo pacman -Sy gnome , and then start / enable the gdm service sudo systemctl start gdm
@@opensourcehome8586 Thank you for your response !
You should try brtfs partition with snapper. It makes easier to recover if you break your installation. It's a little more involved when installing, but worth it.
Good tip! Ill have to look in to that
tks really great help !
Almost 75K views and barely 3K subscribers and 1.3K thumbs up? come on guys...
I had en error by the end it said : " /boot doesn't look like an EFI partition. "
I installed arch linux today by watching arch wiki on web and EFI channel on RUclips.
very useful, thanks a lot
I am at the point now where i can log into root, and my user that I created. but ls command doesn't show any file system. i tried to re-mount the boot and sda2, but after reboot when I type lsblk, the boot and sda2 don't show up as mounted. but they do show up. any ideas?
Did you generate the fstab?
@@opensourcehome8586 yes I did, i checked and the fstab file is there.
@@MrFreeze79 You're supposed to check the content of the fstab file...
This isn't difficult to do, but I wonder why they haven't made an official GUI installer. Is it extremely hard to do, or do they have so much of a puritan/elitist attitude they're keeping it tedious just for the sake of being tedious? I'd shudder at that thought of my OS ever needing to be reinstalled.
I forgot to install nano what do I do now
what distro do you use? what WM with it? your browser is sleek af
I use arch, with gnome. Using the GTK theme 'Arc'
@@dh00mk3tu that is called terminator
I've got 24 gigs of ram, do I need a swap partition?
It really depends on your workload, 24 is a good amount for most desktop use. I would recommend that you keep some free space leftover on your drive so you can add swap later when needed, or extend your home partition if it ever needs additional space.
@@opensourcehome8586 I've only got 16gb on the drive. Can I use a different drive for swap?
@@gabriels.5556 You can skip swap if that is your config
@@gabriels.5556 man I have 8
@@gabriels.5556 enable zram if you have problem with low ram
23:27 is where i couldn't continue.. after running the grub installer it kept failing because my laptop doesn't have efi enabled?? "efi variables are not supported on this system"
😕 i couldn't set time zone
What terminal emulator do you use?
In the video I am using terminator, but these days I use terminix
@@opensourcehome8586 Thanks a lot for your reply. I should also mention, that I became an Arch user thanks to your detailed installation guide.
Oddly enough that Arch cannot by any means to be installed on HP gaming laptops.
not true.
@@blvckl0tcs750 I had realized that.
Great work man :) What i think?: you missed is how to install GUI...
I use etcher on windows systems but prefer popsicle
How did this video gain so many views so fast...
The tuto is good but it definitely doesn't work irl! It would be great if someone shows how to install the Arch Linux on laptop with wireless WPA connection! Everything else is kindergarten - half of the job is already done by default bc of the VM. Thanks though.
do you how to connect to wifi after grub installation?? after reboot I'm stuck don't know how to connect wifi
Systemd-networkd is dumb and refused to work, network manager saved the day. If you need to go back, you can reboot to the live USB, remount your root directory and pacstrap on any packages you didn't think you needed
you really screwed me over in the text editor section when you didnt explain how to uncomment.
this made it so my usb drive doesnt boot anymore on my laptop that i use linux on
it doesnt show up when i press this pc it only shows my main storage device
Tryna fucking understand this shit but my head just will not let me
I use manjaro BTW!
Thanks
the most annooying setup process i have ever seen.ill stic to puppy
I used Rufus
step 1, pay for a good internet connection :u
how do u uncomment it?
remove the #
ippsec?!
ooh no timestamps .. smh
Too convoluted
Blurry
jebać linux
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I only want to be able to install Arch Linux to tell these Arch elitst snobs that their distro is trash
first
SECOND
I did everything then I went to reboot and nothing saved/happened is that cause I didn’t remove usb with arch?
Try removing the usb
@@opensourcehome8586 then it says no bootable devices found
@@opensourcehome8586 and no partitions show up in boot manager
@@Ghost-wc4yt you could have installed GRUB incorrectly.
@@patolenho3732 Not sure what had happened but I just restarted and it worked the second time