You know Arch used to have a full graphical installer. There's nothing wrong with having more ways to install and it doesn't look like they have any intention of getting rid of the manual installation method.
WAIT WHAT, I installed Arch Linux yesterday (by myself, the arch way) and now they introduced this. I should have checked the wiki. Thank you for doing a showcase on this though!
Actually i didn't read all this while doing my practice on April iso, but now I'll look at it, and install another vm. i really liked this brother, thanks for sharing
Great run through. I saw this come out and default systemd boot is awesome. Gotta use ovmf in vm's with it however. Thanks for the quick turn! Favorite arch teacher period.
I was following along your manual Arch BTRFS install like an hour ago (wanted to go back to Arch after taking a look at Gnome 40 in Fedora 34, sort of in a „native Gnome environment“). Everything worked out well on my old Macbook Air (2011)! But the installer looks good to me, too, next time, switching back to Arch will be even easier :) I do also like to install it manually though
that's pretty cool didn't expect to have a built in installer for arch I've been using archfi/archdi scripts since forever, now I kinda wish that installer would exist for Gentoo as well
I just installed into a virtualbox and there's already a few a few little improvements in the selections in the installer in the few days since the video was made.
i use arch on my main home-built gaming build when i got a laptop from my friend for my programming (I'm learning c++ and opengl on the side, my main job is a electeical tech), i couldn't for the life of get arch.iso and lsblk to rid itself of windows, it just wouldn't. itd reformat but absolutely refused to be a bootable os. you are the reason i put fedora on it, and iove it. I did install kde plasma as i don't csre for gnome. fuck, wayland is so smooth on crappy hardware its impressive thanks dude, i love you
Thank you for a good video... Personally I love they have made it much easier to install. Wayyy faster than before And I truely believe thats a good thing.. certainly is for new users
I commented on your full arch install too lol got my first arch install up and running to perfection! Even created an install package on github, inspired by yours that I saw in the video. The only issue is that my secondary monitor doesn’t work(xrandr isn’t picking it up at all. It only shows the main built in monitor). I think the problem is that my laptop has an onboard graphics card(intel) plus a dedicated graphics card(nvidia) and I don’t have the nvidia drivers installed, only the intel drivers.
at 14:04 when you did cat 2021-04-05_10-12-40 conf, can you pls tell me what is used for intel_pstate? is it active, passive, disabled or something else?
This is really cool. Didn’t know this existed! Could make an arch install tolerable for me. Thing that always bugged me about it was that it requires two computers to install. One to read the guide. Another to install it on.
I have mixed feeling towards the installer. It's nice to not need to have the arch wiki open to get through the basic stuff (locale, etc) but they really should give you the option to add a swap partition when your selecting your file system type. Over all, I'd say it's a good start. At least we can get to the DE quick and open arch wiki for the rest of the install without needing to have our phones out.
Thanks for covering! I started playing with this yesterday using the guided option and found it very fast. There appears to be an option to install to existing partitions. I tried setting up efi, /, and /home and formatting, but I could not figure out how the script wanted them mounted.
I asked and they said that they are working on it (existing partitions). It is not a big deal as I can always create a separate /home partition post installation. This is my first foray with systemd-boot, so I am figuring it out. All in all, it looks like a useful script, especially as it is included by default.
like to use systemd-networkd but kde, gnome and other have gui for networkmanager... but not for systemd-networkd (is it correct?) so maybe switch maybe its can be better to switch to networkmanager or at least make some option...
Well... The Arch devs are finally getting it that people are wanting to use scripts... :-) There are so many installer scripts out there now. I guess they figured they might as well get on the wagon... Lol That is a nice option but needs a lot of work still... :-D I have my own script as most folks do and I use Eznix's too so it is just one more way to install Arch... Thanks for the video! LLAP
Hello i have nvme ssd which i want to install manjaro in it. I read that i should use periodic trim enabled. Should i delete the discard command inside the fstab file after i enable trim with systemctl enable fstrim.timer?
Thank you very much for this interesting video! I think the installation with KDE is totally overloaded with a huge amount of unnecessary programs / packages! It would be fine if one can choose only those packages you really want to work with.
Finally....something they've should it done a long time ago. It offers to few options. For example, the possibility to choose between lts and regular kernel, few desktop environments (no xfce). Maybe in the next releases
Well, the first time I installed Arch there was Arch install framework, a ncurses GUI (in the style of the one of Debian or FreeBSD or other distros). Then they decided that it wasn't that useful and had bugs so they switched to install scripts. This tool is rough, and seems worse than the old ncurses interface. But they probably worked on the backend, and they just have to make a nice frontend to it. To me adding a graphical installer to a distro like Arch doesn't add a lot of value by the way, there are other projects like Manjaro aimed at making Arch more simple for the new users, and the expert user will probably still use the install scripts (that are 2 commands). For the new users, these script risk doing more damage than other, for example I don't see partitioning options, it seems that the default choice is erase your hard drive and make a new partition table. Let's wait on the forum users complaining that they lost all their data because they thought that it would have made a dual boot like Ubuntu. Or I don't see options regarding the installation of the bootloader, here the option seems again install the new bootloader as default without asking, that is fine to an advanced user, but what a beginner that maybe doesn't know how to boot back into Windows?
@@alerighi there is manjaro indeed, but they add too much things in their fresh install. In gnome, for instance, there are extensions installed by default. But the worst thing about manjaro is if you have older Nvidia graphics and you want to install the propietary drivers
It's a nice installer, I used it today to install Arch on my production machine, I like that it uses systemd-boot - the hugely more popular Calamares installer doesn't give me this option :)
Hallo Ermanno, Ich habe den Installer gerade in einer VM nachgestellt; mit xorg wie Du schon einleitend sagtes ist das "nackte" Arch und musst alles händisch nach installieren, wie zum Beispiel Xfce. Von der Idee her nicht schlecht, es ist aber noch Luft nach oben. Da bleibe ich lieber der händischen Eingabe oder verwende freundlicher Weise ein Skript von Dir, welches ich mir für mich angepasst habe. LG Andreas
I have followed your video step-by-step and was able to successfully install on one of my desktops, but another I am hit with the Minimal Bash-like command line. It looks like Grub didn't install. Any suggestions to move me along so I can get booted into SDDM?
@@eflinux yes. One is AMD using Nvidia, the other is Intel with integrated graphics. That is the only difference between the two installs. I tried my Intel laptop also with the same problem. Have you not experienced this yet on an Intel install?
If I want to install bspwm with this tutorial, should I install xorg install in the 3rd step? Thank for this videos, you are saving me through my path into arch.
Ermanno, have you already tried to boot Arch via the network (preboot execution environment)? It could be interesting to show that in action sometime. ;)
Well didn’t work for me at all; I got the same errors he did trying to select my keyboard, and I couldn’t figure out what to type in as the full name / layout for my keyboard (USA English.) - though who is to say that would have even worked.
@@eflinux what is one supposed to type if they have a US keyboard? I even tried just typing in your German keyboard info and figured I would deal with it but I still got an error
When it asks to select the keyboard you have "us" as number 21 in the list. If you enter 21 as an answer it should work. By default, the ISO has a US keyboard anyway.
damn i was 3 months too early to use this, it looks sick for a beginner i wish it had more options tho. But thank you EF i used your previous guides when i was stuck at a few steps during the install
HIi I am really appreciating your videos and the information you share in them. Thank you. Not a big fan of the installer in its current state as I tend to prefer to get into every specific detail of the installation/ system. However, it may be useful in several scenarios.
As always, you're so diligent and curious when it comes to new Arch Linux features. Thanks! Have you tried your additional configuration on top of this install, i.e. firewalld and virt-manager with a virtual machine? When I install Windows in virt-manager, I don't have internet because dns does not work. I have to specify DNS with an outside DNS, e.g. 1.1.1.1 to make it work (my pihole dns does not work). I'm not yet sure who the culprit is: resolved or a firewall port not opened. If you have a solution, I'd be happy to know. BTW: I think NetworkManager is not installed on a barebone install.
@@eflinux With regar to DNS in a virtual machine: It seems to have been this symbolic link (ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf) from the arch wiki (wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-resolved) that prevents the VM from resolving DNS. I had it in my script but somehow it wasn't executed (perhaps too early in the installation process).
@@eflinux I was able to install EndeavourOs to a little netbook I have and am enjoying it. I do still plan to manual install arch to it with XFCE. Its been my little project laptop. Thanks for your response!
Hi Roman, there can be multiple issues for this error. It also depends on the type of boot partition your motherboard is expecting. I know the devs are working on improving the script, maybe it will help them out if you give then a feedback.
Your videos are always great, and this one is no exception. I followed you and installed Arch on my iMac using VMWare Fusion and the entire process went like clockwork. The only problem is the screen resolution, and from what I read around the internet, everyone who tries this has the exact same problem, the screen resolution of 1920x1080 appears nowhere in the display settings and that is the one resolution that everyone needs to use. I have seen lots of videos and web pages that claim to have solved this problem, but so far, from my experience, each one has a fatal flaw where the process dies and then the only solution is to wipe the virtual drive, start over, and just deal with black bars and a bad looking screen. I realize that Arch Linux is not officially supported by VMWare, but could you please do a video that shows how a user can solve this problem. I have installed other Arch-based distributions onto my iMac using VMWare Fusion and I can eventually get to a 1920x1080 resolution on them, but not on plain Arch. I would appreciate it VERY much and I am sure that lots of other people would as well. Thank you very much for your work!
Hi Glenn, thanks for the feedback! Did you check out this wiki and made sure the vmware drivers are installed? wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware/Install_Arch_Linux_as_a_guest
@@eflinux Yes, I tried that process yesterday. Arch complained that there was something wrong with the syntax of the command to create the init.d/rc directories. It did not like the inclusion of the words "do" or "done" in the command and nothing I could do could get it to work
@@eflinux Yes, but all that did was change the resolution of the GRUB screen to 1920x1080 and the desktop resolution reverts back to 1680x1050 and nothing I could do could change that. Usually, switching from Single Window to Full Screen and back again in VMWare takes care of the problem but it doesn't in this instance
I would say it makes it easier. I'd say it's just a step easier than doing Debian net install but install of arch without the installer would be a lot harder if your a beginner. I think even though there's a lot more steps to the typical install it's not hard but it's reliable too which is awesome even more reliable than Debian net install. I'd say still not quite beginner unless they have already had experience or wanna learn how it works and take the time to comprehend. For me it's great it saves me time especially since I've learned more this year than I have in 20 years.
Hello I try the arch linux. But 800 Mb iso.Therr isn't live iso and arch linux install is very hard. Do you made arch linux(Example:arch linux i3 iso)? And is this regal isn't it? Thank you 👍
It's already been done (stumbled across the video somehow a few weeks ago), but if you want to make a video for installing Arch blindfolded, I know you can.) That would be a fun mid-month torture test of sorts, wouldn't it?? :)
Ermanno, did you try providing a value not in the list. The script crashes. A lot more work needs to be done on the installer script. Anyways a positive approach from Arch. I've started using Arch lately after your lucid tutorial on using Arch.
Good video, Ermanno. I was playing with this a few days ago, but really didn’t like it. I kept wondering, “what’s the use of this installer, it’s so limited.” It really seems more of a cruel joke from the folks at Arch than something useful. IMHO, of course.
At this stage, it is pretty bare bones. We'll see what the future brings, but I believe at its core Arch will remain the Arch we know. After all, no installer can cover every single build possibility.
its nice that this is included now but tbh, if its not a gui installer offering every option im not getting the point of it. after getting used to arch installation im able to install it within about 20 minutes. so, as long as there is no easy installer which would make the whole process comfortable ill stick with the classical install of arch i guess.
Hey we share our options here! That what's counts :) Thanks for the feedback! I do prefer the manual install too, I like to have the options to build the way I want.
I use a Arch Live Iso with Terminal for install. And a install doc greated me. Than only simply copy and Paste. That is the best way to install Arch Linux i thinlk
I think the installer is a neat idea for arch, but I also think it shouldn’t be there. I originally went to arch because I was bored and wanted to learn more about Linux. This installer means that users can’t learn as much from installing arch and takes away from the vibe of arch. If you want arch but don’t want the hassle of installing it, there are third party installers and Manjaro does a fantastic job at handling everything for you.
My mum started using Ubuntu, I fixed her 10 year-old machine and she likes it. On my end, a friend of mine told me he could only use Arch, so I went on looking for docs, and damn, the installer alone drove me away from it. I remember using Slackware circa 2004, and it was cool, being that far back; but nowadays, there's no point in having a complicated installer. TBH, I laughed when I went on to read how to enable wireless, iwctl then station and what not. 2023 and you still need to run this thing like this. What's the purpose behind this? Clearly not to let possible Windows or MAC users in on Arch easily. I'll probably give this video a shot to install on this machine, it's got Ubuntu Lunar Lobster right now and it hangs in there, really stable which is important.
I use both sysinit and systemd. I don't hate it. It's just a matter of choice. I bet you are in love with Bill Gates. Wait for his vaccine, muzzle up with a mask. Hack windows... crack windows. Use linux.
I personally don't like the way this installer install Arch. Lack of choices to me : no swap, choice of languages not working correctly for other languages than en_US, systemd boot as default bootloader, weird python errors + crash when invalid input from the user.... Eventually useful for quick Arch install on VMs but I'll stick to the manual way of installing Arch for reals machines !
Hope you really see this but you are the reason I made the transition to linux and you are the reason I’m confident using it
Happy to hear that!
Hmmmmm
I thought the installer was an April fools joke 🤔. I learnt how to install arch via one of your older video .Thank you for the updated one .
You know Arch used to have a full graphical installer. There's nothing wrong with having more ways to install and it doesn't look like they have any intention of getting rid of the manual installation method.
The installer is a step in the right direction. It is a quick and easy way to get vanilla Arch on your system.
this will be useful for quick arch installs on vms!
Oh man, I was waiting for this tutorial... But, I'm amazed to get a tutorial from the same channel! Thanks a ton brother :)
WAIT WHAT, I installed Arch Linux yesterday (by myself, the arch way) and now they introduced this. I should have checked the wiki. Thank you for doing a showcase on this though!
so what? im still going to use the arch way, since it automatically does everything for me.
Love your videos, it's because of you I went full-in on arch and haven't looked back.
Sehr gut und interessant ! Danke für Deine Arbeit Ermanno.
Danke Gerd!
Actually i didn't read all this while doing my practice on April iso, but now I'll look at it, and install another vm. i really liked this brother, thanks for sharing
Thank you Ermanno, I was very curious to see the new installer in action but I was too lazy to try it out in a VM.
Wow, this is progress in Arch installation, thanks for the great work as usual sir 🙏
Nice video with full details as always, well done.
Thanks! And nice to see you again! :)
This was already a package in the arch repo. Now it just comes pre-installed with the the iso.
Great run through. I saw this come out and default systemd boot is awesome. Gotta use ovmf in vm's with it however. Thanks for the quick turn! Favorite arch teacher period.
Thanks!
awesome, bro! love the video!
I was following along your manual Arch BTRFS install like an hour ago (wanted to go back to Arch after taking a look at Gnome 40 in Fedora 34, sort of in a „native Gnome environment“).
Everything worked out well on my old Macbook Air (2011)! But the installer looks good to me, too, next time, switching back to Arch will be even easier :) I do also like to install it manually though
that's pretty cool didn't expect to have a built in installer for arch I've been using archfi/archdi scripts since forever, now I kinda wish that installer would exist for Gentoo as well
I tried this on my laptop it fails at keyboard layout.. errors everywhere if inputting: us
thats because youre giving an invalid input because youre supposed to input a number as the menu shows
I love your voice.
Yea I love your voice. (I started using arch a year ago.)
I just installed into a virtualbox and there's already a few a few little improvements in the selections in the installer in the few days since the video was made.
i use arch on my main home-built gaming build
when i got a laptop from my friend for my programming (I'm learning c++ and opengl on the side, my main job is a electeical tech), i couldn't for the life of get arch.iso and lsblk to rid itself of windows, it just wouldn't. itd reformat but absolutely refused to be a bootable os.
you are the reason i put fedora on it, and iove it. I did install kde plasma as i don't csre for gnome.
fuck, wayland is so smooth on crappy hardware its impressive
thanks dude, i love you
My pleasure :)
Thank you for a good video... Personally I love they have made it much easier to install. Wayyy faster than before
And I truely believe thats a good thing.. certainly is for new users
I commented on your full arch install too lol got my first arch install up and running to perfection! Even created an install package on github, inspired by yours that I saw in the video. The only issue is that my secondary monitor doesn’t work(xrandr isn’t picking it up at all. It only shows the main built in monitor). I think the problem is that my laptop has an onboard graphics card(intel) plus a dedicated graphics card(nvidia) and I don’t have the nvidia drivers installed, only the intel drivers.
Probably wanna get the nvidia drivers installed then
Wow great video, I will try this on my other machine using this semi automated archinstall script.
at 14:04 when you did cat 2021-04-05_10-12-40 conf, can you pls tell me what is used for intel_pstate? is it active, passive, disabled or something else?
It's intel_pstate=no_hwp.
@@eflinux thank you!
This is really cool. Didn’t know this existed! Could make an arch install tolerable for me. Thing that always bugged me about it was that it requires two computers to install. One to read the guide. Another to install it on.
Don't you have a smartphone??
NIIIICEE now we need a dual boot with windows 10 video using this script
i literally had a 3 day struggle until yesterday xD!!!!!
I have mixed feeling towards the installer. It's nice to not need to have the arch wiki open to get through the basic stuff (locale, etc) but they really should give you the option to add a swap partition when your selecting your file system type. Over all, I'd say it's a good start. At least we can get to the DE quick and open arch wiki for the rest of the install without needing to have our phones out.
Agree.
According to some people the installer doesn't support mbr, only uefi..but I haven't tested it yet.
That’s correct.
Thanks for covering! I started playing with this yesterday using the guided option and found it very fast. There appears to be an option to install to existing partitions. I tried setting up efi, /, and /home and formatting, but I could not figure out how the script wanted them mounted.
I asked and they said that they are working on it (existing partitions). It is not a big deal as I can always create a separate /home partition post installation. This is my first foray with systemd-boot, so I am figuring it out. All in all, it looks like a useful script, especially as it is included by default.
Thanks for sharing!
tried this 4 times, and when it came to installing it'd keep erroring out... guess i should just install this manually.
Yes, it's not the most reliable script yet.
Good video! Subscribed.
like to use systemd-networkd but kde, gnome and other have gui for networkmanager... but not for systemd-networkd (is it correct?) so maybe switch maybe its can be better to switch to networkmanager or at least make some option...
i installed with the may edition iso and there is no option to choose a desktop ie kde gnome etc
Well... The Arch devs are finally getting it that people are wanting to use scripts... :-)
There are so many installer scripts out there now. I guess they figured they might as well get on the wagon... Lol
That is a nice option but needs a lot of work still... :-D
I have my own script as most folks do and I use Eznix's too so it is just one more way to install Arch...
Thanks for the video!
LLAP
Thanks for sharing!
Yay a better alternative to archfi. Great video
Great video. I love this new tool. What special options would you put into the fstab for ssd or nvme?
Hello i have nvme ssd which i want to install manjaro in it. I read that i should use periodic trim enabled. Should i delete the discard command inside the fstab file after i enable trim with systemctl enable fstrim.timer?
Option For Cinammon?
Thank you very much for this interesting video! I think the installation with KDE is totally overloaded with a huge amount of unnecessary programs / packages! It would be fine if one can choose only those packages you really want to work with.
Openrc? Thanks
Hopefully they bring this to BIOS one day.
@cgwworldministries Bios is not dead.
Finally....something they've should it done a long time ago. It offers to few options. For example, the possibility to choose between lts and regular kernel, few desktop environments (no xfce). Maybe in the next releases
Well, the first time I installed Arch there was Arch install framework, a ncurses GUI (in the style of the one of Debian or FreeBSD or other distros). Then they decided that it wasn't that useful and had bugs so they switched to install scripts. This tool is rough, and seems worse than the old ncurses interface. But they probably worked on the backend, and they just have to make a nice frontend to it.
To me adding a graphical installer to a distro like Arch doesn't add a lot of value by the way, there are other projects like Manjaro aimed at making Arch more simple for the new users, and the expert user will probably still use the install scripts (that are 2 commands).
For the new users, these script risk doing more damage than other, for example I don't see partitioning options, it seems that the default choice is erase your hard drive and make a new partition table. Let's wait on the forum users complaining that they lost all their data because they thought that it would have made a dual boot like Ubuntu. Or I don't see options regarding the installation of the bootloader, here the option seems again install the new bootloader as default without asking, that is fine to an advanced user, but what a beginner that maybe doesn't know how to boot back into Windows?
Very good points.
@@alerighi there is manjaro indeed, but they add too much things in their fresh install. In gnome, for instance, there are extensions installed by default. But the worst thing about manjaro is if you have older Nvidia graphics and you want to install the propietary drivers
It's a nice installer, I used it today to install Arch on my production machine, I like that it uses systemd-boot - the hugely more popular Calamares installer doesn't give me this option :)
Not really nice, systemd-boot isn’t really a good bootloader.
very good idea the installer. i'm waiting future releases.
Hallo Ermanno,
Ich habe den Installer gerade in einer VM nachgestellt; mit xorg wie Du schon einleitend sagtes ist das "nackte" Arch und musst alles händisch nach installieren, wie zum Beispiel Xfce. Von der Idee her nicht schlecht, es ist aber noch Luft nach oben.
Da bleibe ich lieber der händischen Eingabe oder verwende freundlicher Weise ein Skript von Dir, welches ich mir für mich angepasst habe.
LG Andreas
I got an error that device not found. 🤖
I have followed your video step-by-step and was able to successfully install on one of my desktops, but another I am hit with the Minimal Bash-like command line. It looks like Grub didn't install.
Any suggestions to move me along so I can get booted into SDDM?
What is the difference between these 2 desktops? Are they both UEFI?
@@eflinux yes. One is AMD using Nvidia, the other is Intel with integrated graphics. That is the only difference between the two installs. I tried my Intel laptop also with the same problem. Have you not experienced this yet on an Intel install?
Have you tried to use the mesa driver or did you choose the intel one?
@@eflinux I chose Intel for my display driver. Should I have chosen Mesa?
Yes, you should try that.
How does the package counter look on KDE? I know that the installer installs "gnome" and "gnome-extras" which is a little bit bloated.
How do you mean the counter?
@@eflinux Sorry maybe it was the wrong word, just wanted to know how many packages are installed after a KDE install with this new installer.
Oh I see, I don't know, I haven't checked that tbh.
If I want to install bspwm with this tutorial, should I install xorg install in the 3rd step? Thank for this videos, you are saving me through my path into arch.
I’d install it, or at least parts of it.
@@eflinux thx!
Ermanno, have you already tried to boot Arch via the network (preboot execution environment)? It could be interesting to show that in action sometime. ;)
I read my mind Peter...
Well didn’t work for me at all; I got the same errors he did trying to select my keyboard, and I couldn’t figure out what to type in as the full name / layout for my keyboard (USA English.) - though who is to say that would have even worked.
Yeah the script is far from perfect, as you have seen also in my demo. Hopefully, for those who want to use it, it will improve with time.
@@eflinux what is one supposed to type if they have a US keyboard? I even tried just typing in your German keyboard info and figured I would deal with it but I still got an error
When it asks to select the keyboard you have "us" as number 21 in the list. If you enter 21 as an answer it should work. By default, the ISO has a US keyboard anyway.
@@eflinux I’m afraid that’s immediately where it errors for me: whether I type the number or ‘us’ - this is where the script fails for me. :(
In that case, I recommend to give feedback to the devs as they are trying to improve the script.
damn i was 3 months too early to use this, it looks sick for a beginner i wish it had more options tho. But thank you EF i used your previous guides when i was stuck at a few steps during the install
It's still pretty bare bones, but I know the devs are working on it.
@@eflinux its brand new so i can understand the barebones nature, its still a nice addition but makes it a bit harder to say i use arch btw 24/7
HIi I am really appreciating your videos and the information you share in them.
Thank you.
Not a big fan of the installer in its current state as I tend to prefer to get into every specific detail of the installation/ system. However, it may be useful in several scenarios.
It is pretty bare bones right now, and I am sure it will get better, but imho no installer can cover every single build of Arch a user can do.
What's the cow at the beginning? I can't find it on older ISOs
That's new since the april iso :)
@@eflinux aaaahh..
Can I ask, how do I create a swapfile after this installation, I'm currently using it without swap. The filesystem is btrfs if that matters
As always, you're so diligent and curious when it comes to new Arch Linux features. Thanks!
Have you tried your additional configuration on top of this install, i.e. firewalld and virt-manager with a virtual machine? When I install Windows in virt-manager, I don't have internet because dns does not work. I have to specify DNS with an outside DNS, e.g. 1.1.1.1 to make it work (my pihole dns does not work). I'm not yet sure who the culprit is: resolved or a firewall port not opened. If you have a solution, I'd be happy to know.
BTW: I think NetworkManager is not installed on a barebone install.
Thanks Michael! I didn't try that yet, but I will. And yes, in the bare bone install there is only systemd-networkd.
@@eflinux With regar to DNS in a virtual machine: It seems to have been this symbolic link (ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf) from the arch wiki (wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-resolved) that prevents the VM from resolving DNS. I had it in my script but somehow it wasn't executed (perhaps too early in the installation process).
Did you had problems with Discover? End of March Discover wouldn't do anything on my Arch installation...
Not that I noticed.
I still use the helmuthdu/aui installer it does a neat job customizing bash
How long does it take for the bas packages to install? It seems to stop doing anything when I get to the point to actually install.
It took some time, depends also on the internet connection.
@@eflinux I was able to install EndeavourOs to a little netbook I have and am enjoying it. I do still plan to manual install arch to it with XFCE. Its been my little project laptop. Thanks for your response!
My pleasure!
selected boot device failed
Hi Roman, there can be multiple issues for this error. It also depends on the type of boot partition your motherboard is expecting. I know the devs are working on improving the script, maybe it will help them out if you give then a feedback.
Can I install arch Linux on an old core 2 duo macbook pro?
Good job!!! Is it possible to have a /home with this new installer?
Great. Can you do this with a dual boot (win)
I didn't try it out.
Your videos are always great, and this one is no exception. I followed you and installed Arch on my iMac using VMWare Fusion and the entire process went like clockwork. The only problem is the screen resolution, and from what I read around the internet, everyone who tries this has the exact same problem, the screen resolution of 1920x1080 appears nowhere in the display settings and that is the one resolution that everyone needs to use. I have seen lots of videos and web pages that claim to have solved this problem, but so far, from my experience, each one has a fatal flaw where the process dies and then the only solution is to wipe the virtual drive, start over, and just deal with black bars and a bad looking screen.
I realize that Arch Linux is not officially supported by VMWare, but could you please do a video that shows how a user can solve this problem. I have installed other Arch-based distributions onto my iMac using VMWare Fusion and I can eventually get to a 1920x1080 resolution on them, but not on plain Arch. I would appreciate it VERY much and I am sure that lots of other people would as well. Thank you very much for your work!
Hi Glenn, thanks for the feedback! Did you check out this wiki and made sure the vmware drivers are installed? wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware/Install_Arch_Linux_as_a_guest
@@eflinux Yes, I tried that process yesterday. Arch complained that there was something wrong with the syntax of the command to create the init.d/rc directories. It did not like the inclusion of the words "do" or "done" in the command and nothing I could do could get it to work
I see, have you tried the openVM tools instead?
@@eflinux Yes, but all that did was change the resolution of the GRUB screen to 1920x1080 and the desktop resolution reverts back to 1680x1050 and nothing I could do could change that. Usually, switching from Single Window to Full Screen and back again in VMWare takes care of the problem but it doesn't in this instance
Ok, I'll look into it and eventually make a tutorial for that.
Great tutorial! One question, how can I setup wifi? (Without using ethernet or anything)
Does arch linux support wifi?
Does it always format the efi partition? if so, doesn't it will delete windows boot files? so we can't dual boot with windows?
In this video yes, it installs only Arch. I also have dual booting videos on the channels on the same efi partition or with 2 separate ones.
Is it possible to instal arch linux with this istaller on laptop with two disks: ssd and hdd.
I didn’t try that configuration.
@@eflinux It's a pitty...
Fails to create a bootable device on real hardware for me.
I would say it makes it easier. I'd say it's just a step easier than doing Debian net install but install of arch without the installer would be a lot harder if your a beginner. I think even though there's a lot more steps to the typical install it's not hard but it's reliable too which is awesome even more reliable than Debian net install. I'd say still not quite beginner unless they have already had experience or wanna learn how it works and take the time to comprehend. For me it's great it saves me time especially since I've learned more this year than I have in 20 years.
My system is MBR based! Oh, what should I do?
At this time you have no choice but install manually.
@@eflinux Okay brother, then I'll follow your tutorial for MBR :)
Hello I try the arch linux. But 800 Mb iso.Therr isn't live iso and arch linux install is very hard. Do you made arch linux(Example:arch linux i3 iso)? And is this regal isn't it? Thank you 👍
Hi, can you elaborate on that? I am not sure if I understand the question.
@@eflinux sorry my english bad.
Can make arch linux bootable iso?
Example arch iso KDE iso?
No problem! Eventually in the future :)
@@eflinux Are you understand my question?
If you are asking if I can do a video on an arch iso with KDE, then I understood.
Not for me, Script = Bloat (kde apps, etc), and I use LTS Kernel only with Swap file 😕
Thanks for this updated review
We always have a choice :)
It's already been done (stumbled across the video somehow a few weeks ago), but if you want to make a video for installing Arch blindfolded, I know you can.) That would be a fun mid-month torture test of sorts, wouldn't it?? :)
Who knows, maybe I end up like that after a few years of installations :)
@@eflinux Bonus - for sure they'll have it running smoother than today. :)
Will the installer work with a wifi connection? Or should I use ethernet to install arch?
It should work with wifi as well.
can install without a separate computer now Nice !!
Ermanno, did you try providing a value not in the list. The script crashes. A lot more work needs to be done on the installer script. Anyways a positive approach from Arch. I've started using Arch lately after your lucid tutorial on using Arch.
Is systemd-resolved required by KDE?
I don't think so.
nice
Well I just used calamares on a new lappy the other day.. would have been cool to use this but doesn't matter, arch is arch.
Good video, Ermanno. I was playing with this a few days ago, but really didn’t like it. I kept wondering, “what’s the use of this installer, it’s so limited.” It really seems more of a cruel joke from the folks at Arch than something useful. IMHO, of course.
At this stage, it is pretty bare bones. We'll see what the future brings, but I believe at its core Arch will remain the Arch we know. After all, no installer can cover every single build possibility.
@@eflinux Exactly!
its nice that this is included now but tbh, if its not a gui installer offering every option im not getting the point of it. after getting used to arch installation im able to install it within about 20 minutes. so, as long as there is no easy installer which would make the whole process comfortable ill stick with the classical install of arch i guess.
besides my personal opinion on this topic the video awesome quality as always. thank you ermano and sorry for not mentioning in the Original post 😉
Hey we share our options here! That what's counts :) Thanks for the feedback! I do prefer the manual install too, I like to have the options to build the way I want.
I THOUGHT IT WAS THE CALAMARES INSTALLER...
There will be a cyber riot if that happens.
I use a Arch Live Iso with Terminal for install. And a install doc greated me. Than only simply copy and Paste. That is the best way to install Arch Linux i thinlk
I think the installer is a neat idea for arch, but I also think it shouldn’t be there. I originally went to arch because I was bored and wanted to learn more about Linux. This installer means that users can’t learn as much from installing arch and takes away from the vibe of arch. If you want arch but don’t want the hassle of installing it, there are third party installers and Manjaro does a fantastic job at handling everything for you.
Agree.
My mum started using Ubuntu, I fixed her 10 year-old machine and she likes it. On my end, a friend of mine told me he could only use Arch, so I went on looking for docs, and damn, the installer alone drove me away from it. I remember using Slackware circa 2004, and it was cool, being that far back; but nowadays, there's no point in having a complicated installer. TBH, I laughed when I went on to read how to enable wireless, iwctl then station and what not. 2023 and you still need to run this thing like this. What's the purpose behind this? Clearly not to let possible Windows or MAC users in on Arch easily.
I'll probably give this video a shot to install on this machine, it's got Ubuntu Lunar Lobster right now and it hangs in there, really stable which is important.
why they don't partition it like they recommend in the wiki, it just doesn't make any sense.
The installer has slightly improved since then, but it definitely is not perfect yet. I'll do an updated video sometime in the future.
😂 all those sysd haters are going to really hate this. I tried it it very quick surprised at this
I use both sysinit and systemd. I don't hate it. It's just a matter of choice.
I bet you are in love with Bill Gates.
Wait for his vaccine, muzzle up with a mask.
Hack windows... crack windows. Use linux.
@@ikrakoy1902 dude wth.
What does this installer has to do with init system?
@@lutfucangurler900 Einige Leute sind nur Idioten Bruder, der Installer unter Arch Linux ist alles System d
archfi is a more featureful installer
Why not use Calamares to install? It is better then nothing I guess...:)
I am pretty sure it is going to improve over time. We'll see :)
I'll stay with my Mint 19.3
Now ,the archlinux is like for general purpose ,no Arch btw 😆
Yeah and now more people can explore the side of arch that they were scared to do... Good for masses
Now it will be “I use gentoo btw”
I think that someone wouldn't understand what the options meant unless they had already installed manually. But a good idea, nevertheless.
I'll be honest. The current state of this installer is not even close to archfi. I will stick to archfi for now and lurk a while.
Hi schönes Video leider kann ich nichts verstehen könntest Du das noch mal in Deutsch machen ? Das wäre super ! 👍
I personally don't like the way this installer install Arch.
Lack of choices to me : no swap, choice of languages not working correctly for other languages than en_US, systemd boot as default bootloader, weird python errors + crash when invalid input from the user....
Eventually useful for quick Arch install on VMs but I'll stick to the manual way of installing Arch for reals machines !
I don't like it install KDE as a meta package
about time
stubborn =/= evolve