New linux user here, and this was my experience following this tutorial: The tutorial was insanely smooth and easy to follow. Everything went as planned until I realised that grub-install wasn't working. Panicking, I restarted my entire install from the start and encountered the same issue. If you encounter this problem, there's no need to restart. It's likely because your system is UEFI instead of EFI and that means in the step where you execute "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot" you actually need to mount to /mnt/boot/efi instead. Unmount it with "umount" , create a new working directory at /mnt/boot/efi with "mkdir", and then execute the mount, this time to the correct directory. After this, grub should install as intended and you can continue with the tutorial. The next issue I encountered was in the very next step when trying to create a config file for grub, where the console mentioned that linux and initrd images were found, but also issues a warning that "os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions" if you get this issue, what you need to do is change some of grub's default settings. This is done by executing "vim /etc/default/grub" and look for the setting "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false" which is probably commented out. You need to uncomment it (ie. enable os prober). After resolving those two issues, the rest of the install continued smoothly and i managed to arrive at the fabled ASCII Arch logo. Hope my experience helps anyone encountering the same issues. edit: Oh also, for the peeps using wifi, if wifi menu doesn't work, search how to use iwctl instead
To add to this, mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 should be used rather than ext4. Ext4 may work occasionally but as it states in the wiki fat32 is better. This will solve the error 'grub-install: error: /boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition'
@@SamA-xu3dz Yup, I forgot to add that to my comment, thanks! Lastly, another thing you'll have to add to your packstrap if you're doing UEFI is efibootmgr. Depending on what GPU you use, you'll also want to look into installing drivers as well before rebooting because my nvidia one gave me issues on boot until it had its driver.
I followed along with a virtual machine. Honestly the hardest part of the entire thing was learning how to use VIM. Arch elitists are total wusses compared to VIM elitists
If anyone is having trouble getting unicode to work, it's because in the part where he sets up the language and locale (about 17:12), he put the wrong syntax. Your locale.conf file (assuming you want U.S. English,) needs to read **LANG="en_US.UTF-8"** (ignore the asterisks). In the video, he put **LANG=en-US.UTF-8**, this can make the computer not want to display unicode and emojis correctly. I just spent like 4 hours trying to figure this out on my machine, hopefully if you guys have the same issue you'll see this lol.
I think it's the part just after the timestamp you said (18:18) that is the problem. Thanks though I spent so long trying to work out that this was my problem
I installed Arch on a machine with UEFI, if that applies to you and you are having troubles, this is what worked for me: I basically followed the video instructions 1:1 except for: 6:55 I wasn't given the option to set a bootflag, however there was an option to change the partition type at the bottom. In my case I needed to make sure that the boot partion was of type "EFI-System". The second partion I just left on the default settings. 9:47 After "mkdir /mnt/boot" I also did "mkdir /mnt/boot/efi". Then instead of "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot" I used "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi". I am not quite sure if my explanation is correct, but I think if you later run "grub-install /dev/sda" at 16:08, grub by default assumes that the boot partition is installed at /mnt/boot/efi, so it won't work if you mount your boot partition to /mnt/boot (This issue also required me to restart the installation process, it didn't work for me to unmount the boot partion and remount it to the rigth path, I had to restart at the beginning and delete my partions and recreate them) Hope this helps!
@@ethanbroussard It's not difficult. If all you want is the same amount of capability as Nano, then the only syntax you need to know is 'i' to enter insert mode, 'esc' to escape it, and ':wq' to save and exit.
It's actually crazy how much easier this is to follow than the written instructions. The one's on the wiki aren't difficult but they are opaque and it seems like they weren't written by people who are good at delivering info in a teacher-like fashion. Thanks for this, excited to get home after the holidays and try this!
I tried to dual boot arch linux with windows 7, and their guide doesn't really have anything clear on how to do that. I tried archinstall, but it requires internet access and it somehow doesn't install arch on bare metal. (A few people have already discovered that) I then tried to manually pacstrap but, again, I can't set up an offline repo, and it just download everything from the web. Like, what's the point of an iso if you're just going to sync everything from the server? In the end, I admitted defeat, and went to artix linux gui installer. I use arch linux *anyway*.
My main issue with the Arch website in general is the fact that it's hard to read (page is so bright). I've also gotten used to reading text on nice looking UIs so the fact that the website looks like it's older than I am (somewhat exaggerating) doesn't help readability either lol.
@@Sam-vf5ucNot that I don't understand them now, but in my opinion that's not a nice expectation. A new user would have every right to say "I'm here because I don't know and this manual won't teach me.".
@@Sam-vf5uc would be nice to throw in more links to actual explainations haha, only half have them, spend like an hour looking up stuff on google before i went fuck it and watched this
I literally spent a whole day trying to install Arch Linux on a Virtualbox machine and every attempt failed (over 20 I'd say), despite following all the other guides, and youtuber's instruction, to the letter. After each install I could only get into the grub menu as there was no system to boot into. I thought I was going crazy but needed to get it to work so that I could build a small footprint Spark platform. Then I came across your video and followed your steps as I watched your video and my Arch Linux installation was up and running on the first go. Can't thank you enough. Also your side notes regarding why DOS and not GPT and the trick about fstab was really clear and easy to understand. Class act. Thanks again!! Tom
This video introduced me to more advanced Linux distributions. I didn't quite understand what I was exactly doing when I installed it in virtualbox but now with a bit more experience it is nice to come back here to watch it again and think back to the past self who had so much struggle and stayed up till 3.00 am trying it over and over again. Thank you MO for doing such a great job of providing Linux :)
Nice video. Laughed my ass of at zoomer laptop remark. However, I believe that if you're on any laptop (not just a zoomer one) you need disk encryption set up. It's one thing if you have a desktop that's at your home and you're home 24/7, but if you have a laptop that's carried around all the time and you live in a dangerous neighborhood, you would want your drive encrypted in case your laptop gets stolen. This way thieves will never get access to your sensitive files like .vimrc for example.
suggestion - some swap space is actually useful, not just when you run out of ram but it helps in sleep function work better in some systems. if you have free hard disk space, just create a swap.
For those who had trouble installing grub, you need to format your sda1 to Fat32 and mount /mnt/boot/efi instead, when it asks for a efibootmgr, just install the package with pacman -S efibootmgr Hope this helps
Bro, thank you so much man, this took me literally six hours. I just started using arch from Debian man. I’ll tell you this process humble me. I can say I’m an official ARCH user now ❤❤❤
YOU ARE AWESOME! THANKS MAN! You removed my fears of making a new arch install, I use it, but the first time I did a install, nearly a year and a half ago, I suffered so much in tutorials and stuff.. it took so much time to get it right, I spent nearly 3 months to work the way I wanted, and got PTSD from it.
This is the first video that I've seen about arch that was actually helpful, also I share your mentality on nano. Learn vim or forever suffer from not being productive.
Best Arch video out of tons other. Simple and very precise. Explanation is superb as I have understood why and what is mnt and other mount points. Before I was doing lots of it just as a blind follower. Thanks Sir appreciate your time.
So this really is the best installation guide on YT. Honestly, this isn't difficult if you just follow along. The hard part is understanding the context and logic behind most of the commands. Maybe in a few years I'll "get it." lol
It's videos like this that can help make a difference in the world. People need to reclaim the power over their devices and this is a very good way to accomplish that!
Great video! I've watched it about 4 times now, installed Arch on two different virtual machines, and made a cheat sheet for myself with all of the commands (using Nano, dirty, dirty Nano)
Aside from a few steps, I followed the tutorial exactly as instructed. Had to figure out how to get grub-install to work(had to use --efi-directory) and connect to wifi on my own(iwctl didn't quite connect it, had to use nmcli), but it worked perfectly otherwise. Thanks, local 4-eyed cat Linux man.
It worked perfectly, I used the tutorial for the 32bit installation, some notes about that, the partition should be ext3 for my old PC instead of ext4, the rest of the tutorial worked fine
One of the best Arch Linux installation guide after 13 years indeed not to mention midfngr, very good instruction including some tiny misinform but it is far the best, thanks :)
Well done and fairly easy to follow - the only thing I might add is to run [ pacman -Syu ] before installing neofetch. Helps eliminating som not found errors. I plan on subscribing and watching some of your other videos. Again thanks.
followed the official arch linux install guide along side this and cross referenced almost every step. Still good. Order is a bit different, but is of no effect and there are some bits in this video that are not in the arch linux guide that are really useful like installing the networkmanager!
Worked great on QEMU, can't wait to test it on a physical drive. (Anyone with issues with exiting locale during install, try pressing "shift zz" and it should help you their)
Nice video, but for anyone watching, make sure you take a look at how you can encrypt your system before following this guide. Encrypting the system is recommended for everyone, IMO, but specially important if you have a laptop
There's another reason people may want to choose GPT over DOS. Unlike DOS, GPT allows for more than 4 physical partitions on a given drive. So if for whatever reason you need more than 4 partitions you have to use GPT. I personally always use GPT these days because I don't see a reason not to. It improves upon DOS without any downside. If I'm incorrect, please let me know!
excellent video! If possible, I would recommend disconnecting any other hard drives if possible to assure you do not install on the wrong disk. Just a little added peace of mind :-) I just subscribed
Great instructions, everything worked, but a word of caution, make sure the /boot drive /dev/sda1 is greater than 128MB as it will fill up quickly. Had to re-install Arch
Thank you so much! Not only this was straightforward and I managed to install Arch easily, but this was one of the bests tutorials I've seen. Very entertaining and nice :D Thank you
There is a mistake (atleast I think its one, ignore if its not). when you make the locale.conf file, you put LANG=en-US.UTF-8 , when in the arch wiki it says en_US.UTF-8. I do not know if this will break things, or if both ways are correct, just letting you know
Damn..... I had a lot of trouble with this... but finally I have it set up. I have to use a wifi adapter on my pc..... and for the love of me could not figure out how to get it connected to the internet, first with iwctl... next with nmcli. I initially thought I did something wrong.... reinstalled, made a simple mistake with the grub config (grub-mkconfig /boot/grub.grub.conf instead of /boot/grub/gub.conf) Messed up... didnt know how to operate grub and boot into the Os... booted it through the usb again... changed grub, and finally got it working Thank you for an amazing tutorial
Thanks for this guide, I've subscribed. I'm a very long term Ubuntu user (since Breezy Badger) but I've always been a bit upset with all the bloat that Ubuntu comes with - I used Fluxbox as a window manager for example, rather than Gnome or KDE etc. So I'm hoping Arch with its minimalist setup will be more to my liking!
I used to be scared of Arch. You led me through the minefield. At present, my system is configured with a separate home partition. Could you make a tutorial with a separate home? I know you do a lot, jw. Thanks for being awesome.
Insane tutorial. Thank you so much. I did this on a VM just to get to know my endeavourOS install a little better. And maybe make the vm look sick with some ricing. I may end up installing vanilla arch on bare metal someday... Just not today. Good luck m8.
I was unable to boot my x220 with a UEFI install. This lead me to combine your method with the one provided by Luke Smith on his Artix install tutorial. Now my long desired mSata + SSD dual system is working.
I attempted to install arch on a virtual machine following this video. Went all the way until the pacstrap section and got completely stuck because it would keep complaining about not being able to sync all the databases or something. Kept trying for a very long time, looking everywhere on the internet, checking the wiki, even going as far as completely deleting the hard disk file for the vm and starting over, only to realize that I didn't format my boot partition as ext4. Very fun indeed.
Yeah I learned this the hard way today. That dash will break some stuff including rofi and parts of i3. Definitely needs to add an update to this video to fix that!
Also, if someone has installed Arch through wifi (iwctl), and stuck there because 'iwctl' isnt there now, use 'nmtui' to select wifi but you'll need to have installed network manager
@@supermasterfighter don't know now (i haven't installed arch for 1 year) but back then iwd came installed with the iso Edit: I misread, you're right, but I was stuck once before so thought I'd mention it
I disagree with the /home partition part like completely. A /home partition is essential for a home user who stores their personal files locally. If let say something happens and you break your system and cant repair it if you have a /home partition it's really painless to reinstall Arch without losing your files and dotfiles. Also Swap is not only good for swapspace but also if you plan to use Hibernate which is really useful for laptops so if you need Swap you should have Amount of RAM+1 if not you can get away with 1/2 of RAM but it's always good to have some space for Swap either as a partition or swapfile.
CORRECTION: There's a typo at 18:20. What's entered is "LANG=en-US.UTF-8" but it should be "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" otherwise, as I found when I installed gnome-terminal, it will lead to locale errors. Otherwise, this was an excellent intro to Arch.
I love you. If you ever need a kidney, I have two. I spent the last two weeks trying to wrap my head around the arch installation process, I am sooo happy right now!
Ran into an error just simply trying to install the grub boot loader after chrooting, have been searching the web for almost 5 hours and have missed an entire nights sleep for absolutely no reason. Looks like I will unfortunately be forced to stick with windows
A very good example of a third party guide that gets one or two minor things wrong which screws up the entire installation. Grub didn't work for me either and none of the tips in the comments worked for me.
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New linux user here, and this was my experience following this tutorial:
The tutorial was insanely smooth and easy to follow. Everything went as planned until I realised that grub-install wasn't working. Panicking, I restarted my entire install from the start and encountered the same issue.
If you encounter this problem, there's no need to restart. It's likely because your system is UEFI instead of EFI and that means in the step where you execute "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot" you actually need to mount to /mnt/boot/efi instead. Unmount it with "umount" , create a new working directory at /mnt/boot/efi with "mkdir", and then execute the mount, this time to the correct directory. After this, grub should install as intended and you can continue with the tutorial.
The next issue I encountered was in the very next step when trying to create a config file for grub, where the console mentioned that linux and initrd images were found, but also issues a warning that "os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions" if you get this issue, what you need to do is change some of grub's default settings. This is done by executing "vim /etc/default/grub" and look for the setting "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false" which is probably commented out. You need to uncomment it (ie. enable os prober).
After resolving those two issues, the rest of the install continued smoothly and i managed to arrive at the fabled ASCII Arch logo. Hope my experience helps anyone encountering the same issues.
edit: Oh also, for the peeps using wifi, if wifi menu doesn't work, search how to use iwctl instead
Thanks was just about to do this install tonight. probably would have ran into this issue.
Good advice
To add to this, mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 should be used rather than ext4. Ext4 may work occasionally but as it states in the wiki fat32 is better. This will solve the error 'grub-install: error: /boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition'
@@SamA-xu3dz Yup, I forgot to add that to my comment, thanks! Lastly, another thing you'll have to add to your packstrap if you're doing UEFI is efibootmgr. Depending on what GPU you use, you'll also want to look into installing drivers as well before rebooting because my nvidia one gave me issues on boot until it had its driver.
@@SamA-xu3dz bro thanmk you ive been doin this all week and you decide to post just yesterday thasnk yiou
I followed along with a virtual machine. Honestly the hardest part of the entire thing was learning how to use VIM. Arch elitists are total wusses compared to VIM elitists
Use nano if vim is difficult
Emacs
@@alkaupadhyay7650 I use magnets
@@AnkitJosh vi
I think you shouldn't use Arch if you can't grasp 'i', stuff, 'Esc', ':', 'w', 'q'
Swap is necessary if you need the hibernate feature. It is very useful on Linux where you can forget about rebooting and shutting down
he didnt use it since he is on a virtualbox
Make a swapfile after install. Much more flexible than a swap partition.
Sebastian Samaniego excuse me?? Ever heard about Uefi?
@@feschber yes, a boot partition is necessary for an EFI install.
@@adityanair6021 Sometimes it is referred as a boot partition but yes, it is also called an EFI partition.
If anyone is having trouble getting unicode to work, it's because in the part where he sets up the language and locale (about 17:12), he put the wrong syntax.
Your locale.conf file (assuming you want U.S. English,) needs to read **LANG="en_US.UTF-8"** (ignore the asterisks). In the video, he put **LANG=en-US.UTF-8**, this can make the computer not want to display unicode and emojis correctly.
I just spent like 4 hours trying to figure this out on my machine, hopefully if you guys have the same issue you'll see this lol.
i was trying to get rofi to launch from a hotkey and spent like 8 hours trying to work out why and this was the problem
Needs more likes
Thanks buddy.
I think it's the part just after the timestamp you said (18:18) that is the problem. Thanks though I spent so long trying to work out that this was my problem
Should try this when I get home, why doesn't the wiki have it in quotes lol
I installed Arch on a machine with UEFI, if that applies to you and you are having troubles, this is what worked for me:
I basically followed the video instructions 1:1 except for:
6:55 I wasn't given the option to set a bootflag, however there was an option to change the partition type at the bottom. In my case I needed to make sure that the boot partion was of type "EFI-System". The second partion I just left on the default settings.
9:47 After "mkdir /mnt/boot" I also did "mkdir /mnt/boot/efi". Then instead of "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot" I used "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi". I am not quite sure if my explanation is correct, but I think if you later run "grub-install /dev/sda" at 16:08, grub by default assumes that the boot partition is installed at /mnt/boot/efi, so it won't work if you mount your boot partition to /mnt/boot (This issue also required me to restart the installation process, it didn't work for me to unmount the boot partion and remount it to the rigth path, I had to restart at the beginning and delete my partions and recreate them)
Hope this helps!
Thanks so much! For anyone who also ran into the "efibootmgr not found" error, simply run pacman -S efibootmgr, after its installed it should work
thanks for the 6:55 part i didnt have the bootflag option either but it showed up on the USB when i used cfdisk on it
bruuuh and I spent like 15 minutes fixing this using google, when I had the comment section lol
Thanks
Legend!
definitely the shortest arch installation video out there. Nice and comprehensive
Agree, simple and no bs
Not the shortest ruclips.net/video/Ctp-5MRgxGA/видео.html
Well that video is only a month old
@@AtomToast he misses the nice and comprehensive part that the linked video lack ...
@@Elias_Az ik, i only said it's shortest arch install nothing more.
"I dont want to use some dirty bullshit like nano..."
I feel personally attacked, and it hurts.
Me too lol vim is difficult and unnecessary in most cases (for me anyway)
and here i am using micro like a normie...
@@ethanbroussard It's not difficult. If all you want is the same amount of capability as Nano, then the only syntax you need to know is 'i' to enter insert mode, 'esc' to escape it, and ':wq' to save and exit.
@@IndellableHatesHandles yeah ik I've had to use it before but there isnt much of a point if all I need it for is the same functionality as nano
@@zyansheep micro gang
about halfway through the video, and so far you haven't been lying! best on youtube
edit: yay I'm a cool kid now
It's actually crazy how much easier this is to follow than the written instructions.
The one's on the wiki aren't difficult but they are opaque and it seems like they weren't written by people who are good at delivering info in a teacher-like fashion.
Thanks for this, excited to get home after the holidays and try this!
They expect you to know how the commands work.
I tried to dual boot arch linux with windows 7, and their guide doesn't really have anything clear on how to do that. I tried archinstall, but it requires internet access and it somehow doesn't install arch on bare metal. (A few people have already discovered that) I then tried to manually pacstrap but, again, I can't set up an offline repo, and it just download everything from the web. Like, what's the point of an iso if you're just going to sync everything from the server?
In the end, I admitted defeat, and went to artix linux gui installer. I use arch linux *anyway*.
My main issue with the Arch website in general is the fact that it's hard to read (page is so bright). I've also gotten used to reading text on nice looking UIs so the fact that the website looks like it's older than I am (somewhat exaggerating) doesn't help readability either lol.
@@Sam-vf5ucNot that I don't understand them now, but in my opinion that's not a nice expectation. A new user would have every right to say "I'm here because I don't know and this manual won't teach me.".
@@Sam-vf5uc would be nice to throw in more links to actual explainations haha, only half have them, spend like an hour looking up stuff on google before i went fuck it and watched this
I keep watching install guides over and over to see how other people setup their arch OS, this was one of the best one i've seen, thanks :)
Glad it helped!
@@MentalOutlaw hey the wifi-menu thing doesn't work bro
I literally spent a whole day trying to install Arch Linux on a Virtualbox machine and every attempt failed (over 20 I'd say), despite following all the other guides, and youtuber's instruction, to the letter. After each install I could only get into the grub menu as there was no system to boot into. I thought I was going crazy but needed to get it to work so that I could build a small footprint Spark platform. Then I came across your video and followed your steps as I watched your video and my Arch Linux installation was up and running on the first go. Can't thank you enough. Also your side notes regarding why DOS and not GPT and the trick about fstab was really clear and easy to understand. Class act. Thanks again!! Tom
Yo just wanna say I really appreciated this tutorial didn't get stuck in the mud and details, you kept it real. Keep on hustlin. Also you mad funny.
This video introduced me to more advanced Linux distributions. I didn't quite understand what I was exactly doing when I installed it in virtualbox but now with a bit more experience it is nice to come back here to watch it again and think back to the past self who had so much struggle and stayed up till 3.00 am trying it over and over again.
Thank you MO for doing such a great job of providing Linux :)
Nice video. Laughed my ass of at zoomer laptop remark. However, I believe that if you're on any laptop (not just a zoomer one) you need disk encryption set up.
It's one thing if you have a desktop that's at your home and you're home 24/7, but if you have a laptop that's carried around all the time and you live in a dangerous neighborhood, you would want your drive encrypted in case your laptop gets stolen. This way thieves will never get access to your sensitive files like .vimrc for example.
Partitioning?
Omg, I’ll do it, I don’t want people look my .vimrc file since in my neighborhood everyone use emacs.
@@aperson4475 I think it's time to find a new neighborhood 😫
It's okay, everybody at my neighborhood uses nano.
@@aperson4475 It's okay, everybody at my neighborhood uses gedit.
suggestion -
some swap space is actually useful, not just when you run out of ram but it helps in sleep function work better in some systems. if you have free hard disk space, just create a swap.
For those who had trouble installing grub, you need to format your sda1 to Fat32 and mount /mnt/boot/efi instead, when it asks for a efibootmgr, just install the package with pacman -S efibootmgr
Hope this helps
haha, right on
Bro, thank you so much man, this took me literally six hours. I just started using arch from Debian man. I’ll tell you this process humble me. I can say I’m an official ARCH user now ❤❤❤
YOU ARE AWESOME! THANKS MAN! You removed my fears of making a new arch install, I use it, but the first time I did a install, nearly a year and a half ago, I suffered so much in tutorials and stuff.. it took so much time to get it right, I spent nearly 3 months to work the way I wanted, and got PTSD from it.
This is the first video that I've seen about arch that was actually helpful, also I share your mentality on nano. Learn vim or forever suffer from not being productive.
Best Arch video out of tons other. Simple and very precise. Explanation is superb as I have understood why and what is mnt and other mount points. Before I was doing lots of it just as a blind follower. Thanks Sir appreciate your time.
So this really is the best installation guide on YT.
Honestly, this isn't difficult if you just follow along. The hard part is understanding the context and logic behind most of the commands. Maybe in a few years I'll "get it." lol
Really, this is the best tutorial on RUclips that I have ever seen till now!!!
3:47
You can just as well connect your phone via USB and enable "USB Tethering" on your phone.
That is how i am surviving. I fucked up the lan wifi and Bluetooth
@@alkaupadhyay7650 how
Godsend of a video. Partitions/tables are the thing that scare me off most when doing anything related to computers, and you made it super easy.
Man you saved me! I had already wasted hours following other tutorials before stumbling upon this one.
Cheers!
It's videos like this that can help make a difference in the world. People need to reclaim the power over their devices and this is a very good way to accomplish that!
Great video! I've watched it about 4 times now, installed Arch on two different virtual machines, and made a cheat sheet for myself with all of the commands (using Nano, dirty, dirty Nano)
Using nano decreases the coolness of your config files. Never do that.
Aside from a few steps, I followed the tutorial exactly as instructed. Had to figure out how to get grub-install to work(had to use --efi-directory) and connect to wifi on my own(iwctl didn't quite connect it, had to use nmcli), but it worked perfectly otherwise. Thanks, local 4-eyed cat Linux man.
Love the instant install of neofetch. Very important.
It worked perfectly, I used the tutorial for the 32bit installation, some notes about that, the partition should be ext3 for my old PC instead of ext4, the rest of the tutorial worked fine
Really helped with installing Arch for the first time on my T470! Thanks yet again!
the first part has helped me a lot!!! actually it's better than the arch installation manual, thank you
One of the best Arch Linux installation guide after 13 years indeed not to mention midfngr, very good instruction including some tiny misinform but it is far the best, thanks :)
May he rest in peace. such a great man
ShaTer he was my friend and we fell out before he passed away :-(
@@garth56 I'm really very sorry and we've lost a great gem :(
The audio is proper...
You have a lot of Linux work to do to become relevant and whatnot... Buh I subbed for the vocal presentation
Well done and fairly easy to follow - the only thing I might add is to run [ pacman -Syu ] before installing neofetch. Helps eliminating som not found errors. I plan on subscribing and watching some of your other videos. Again thanks.
Great video! Thanks to you I have completely switched over to Arch.
Glad I could help!
Thanks for converting me to the ways of Arch, it will continue to quench my thirst for command line based functionality
A installation guide for users who need to use gpt would be nice, I've personally been having issues getting my 3 TB drive's boot partition to work.
Same it is not finding an efi partition even when I set its type as one
followed the official arch linux install guide along side this and cross referenced almost every step. Still good. Order is a bit different, but is of no effect and there are some bits in this video that are not in the arch linux guide that are really useful like installing the networkmanager!
Worked great on QEMU, can't wait to test it on a physical drive. (Anyone with issues with exiting locale during install, try pressing "shift zz" and it should help you their)
`loadkeys` should be the very first command. You north americans assume too much...
works on my machine
I had to search so fucking much to figure out how to make it not a guessing game with german keyboard
You need to make sure that you're using the proper setup depending on if you're using efi or bios
Nice video, but for anyone watching, make sure you take a look at how you can encrypt your system before following this guide. Encrypting the system is recommended for everyone, IMO, but specially important if you have a laptop
This tutorial still works in 2023, thanks! Did the trick for me, while others didn't and man, seing that neofetch output really is something XD
There's another reason people may want to choose GPT over DOS. Unlike DOS, GPT allows for more than 4 physical partitions on a given drive. So if for whatever reason you need more than 4 partitions you have to use GPT.
I personally always use GPT these days because I don't see a reason not to. It improves upon DOS without any downside. If I'm incorrect, please let me know!
DOS? Do you mean MBR?
@@РустемФахрутдинов-ш8ш Correct. I used "DOS" because that's what fdisk uses to refer to the MBR partition table, as you can see at 5:50 in the video.
Out of all the installation videos on youtube this is the first one that worked. Thank you! I subbed!
This is the only video I have found so far that doesn't use uefi. I don't use eufi, it causes so many issues on my laptop for some reason. Thank you.
You made installation so easy to digest, seriously. Subbed.
excellent video! If possible, I would recommend disconnecting any other hard drives if possible to assure you do not install on
the wrong disk. Just a little added peace of mind :-) I just subscribed
Great instructions, everything worked, but a word of caution, make sure the /boot drive /dev/sda1 is greater than 128MB as it will fill up quickly. Had to re-install Arch
Called nano dirty bs. Subbed forever. Excellent video.
Thank you so much! Not only this was straightforward and I managed to install Arch easily, but this was one of the bests tutorials I've seen. Very entertaining and nice :D Thank you
Thank you :DD this helped me a lot, I love your content and almost everything that I know about distro-installing is thanks to you
This was literally the best tutorial. Thanks again helping out a noob!
It works! Thanks man for the amazing tutorial! Much love and peace!
yea thanks for the extra noob info thats exactly what I needed, I like how you introduced how it puzzled together nicely you a good instructor
Get a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter. Any kernel over 5.x should have the drivers for it, if you have a laptop without RJ45.
Thank you for the great guide! Wasn't the end all be all for me, but set me on the right track.
Stuck on the vim part? VVV
To "write quit that" you have to first press the ESC button then type :wq in the console that shows up, followed by Enter.
There is a mistake (atleast I think its one, ignore if its not).
when you make the locale.conf file, you put LANG=en-US.UTF-8 , when in the arch wiki it says en_US.UTF-8.
I do not know if this will break things, or if both ways are correct, just letting you know
Damn.....
I had a lot of trouble with this... but finally I have it set up. I have to use a wifi adapter on my pc..... and for the love of me could not figure out how to get it connected to the internet, first with iwctl... next with nmcli.
I initially thought I did something wrong.... reinstalled, made a simple mistake with the grub config (grub-mkconfig /boot/grub.grub.conf instead of /boot/grub/gub.conf)
Messed up... didnt know how to operate grub and boot into the Os... booted it through the usb again... changed grub, and finally got it working
Thank you for an amazing tutorial
I’m using the install guide of this video for my arch Linux install guide but for my Japanese class. Good video
This tutorial is much more helpful than official guide. I tried gentoo and void in the past and their official guides are much more helpful than arch.
I loved your gentoo guide even though I never went through with it. Maybe I'll do this one!
Thanks for this guide, I've subscribed. I'm a very long term Ubuntu user (since Breezy Badger) but I've always been a bit upset with all the bloat that Ubuntu comes with - I used Fluxbox as a window manager for example, rather than Gnome or KDE etc. So I'm hoping Arch with its minimalist setup will be more to my liking!
Thank you for taking the time to show us more about Arch, an advanced Linux distro.
>thinking arch is advanced
@@ClockworkRBLX What else is there thats more advanced? Gentoo and Slackware is all I can think of. Are you saying Arch *isnt* advanced?
@@triliner254 Arch isn't advanced though. It's literally baby tier
Just finished installling it with another tutorial but im going to do it all again just because this is one of your videos
This certainly is the Best Arch Linux Installation Guide on RUclips
Really quick, precise guide. Best I've seen. Thanks.
You just saved me from windows. Thank you!
I'm looking forward to the next tutorial!
I used to be scared of Arch. You led me through the minefield. At present, my system is configured with a separate home partition. Could you make a tutorial with a separate home? I know you do a lot, jw. Thanks for being awesome.
Insane tutorial. Thank you so much. I did this on a VM just to get to know my endeavourOS install a little better. And maybe make the vm look sick with some ricing. I may end up installing vanilla arch on bare metal someday... Just not today. Good luck m8.
this was so easy to follow, thanks mane
I was unable to boot my x220 with a UEFI install. This lead me to combine your method with the one provided by Luke Smith on his Artix install tutorial.
Now my long desired mSata + SSD dual system is working.
for those who don’t get the option to select dos as the label for your disk, run parted and type
select /dev/sda
mklabel msdos
god bless you
I attempted to install arch on a virtual machine following this video. Went all the way until the pacstrap section and got completely stuck because it would keep complaining about not being able to sync all the databases or something. Kept trying for a very long time, looking everywhere on the internet, checking the wiki, even going as far as completely deleting the hard disk file for the vm and starting over, only to realize that I didn't format my boot partition as ext4. Very fun indeed.
A arch tutorial that ACTUALLY works!
An excellent straightforward Arch installation guide ... but what have you got against nano ?!!
I use arch btw,
thank for the vm guide
Just a note: When you set the language you typed it en-US when it's en_US
Yeah I learned this the hard way today. That dash will break some stuff including rofi and parts of i3. Definitely needs to add an update to this video to fix that!
how tf do i take a screenshot
Ctrl prtsc or fn prtsc idk
The best part is being able to say "I use arch btw" at the end.
Bruh, you saved my ass trying to install and fix my arch install. For that, you have my thanks.
Very good “how-to”! Thank you!!
you are my hero man!
Also, if someone has installed Arch through wifi (iwctl), and stuck there because 'iwctl' isnt there now, use 'nmtui' to select wifi but you'll need to have installed network manager
iwctl isn't there because you didn't install the iwd package.
@@supermasterfighter don't know now (i haven't installed arch for 1 year) but back then iwd came installed with the iso
Edit: I misread, you're right, but I was stuck once before so thought I'd mention it
i used Pyongyang as my time zone
I disagree with the /home partition part like completely. A /home partition is essential for a home user who stores their personal files locally. If let say something happens and you break your system and cant repair it if you have a /home partition it's really painless to reinstall Arch without losing your files and dotfiles. Also Swap is not only good for swapspace but also if you plan to use Hibernate which is really useful for laptops so if you need Swap you should have Amount of RAM+1 if not you can get away with 1/2 of RAM but it's always good to have some space for Swap either as a partition or swapfile.
CORRECTION: There's a typo at 18:20. What's entered is "LANG=en-US.UTF-8" but it should be "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" otherwise, as I found when I installed gnome-terminal, it will lead to locale errors. Otherwise, this was an excellent intro to Arch.
ahh yes, the first arch install guide that actually worked for me
I love you. If you ever need a kidney, I have two. I spent the last two weeks trying to wrap my head around the arch installation process, I am sooo happy right now!
There is no arch linux installation video, these are only tutorials on how to RTFM properly.
I appreciate the coherency
Ran into an error just simply trying to install the grub boot loader after chrooting, have been searching the web for almost 5 hours and have missed an entire nights sleep for absolutely no reason. Looks like I will unfortunately be forced to stick with windows
What was the error?
If you are unsure which drive is the one you want, you could also do: "lsblk -o NAME, SIZE, FSTYPE, PARTTYPENAME".
holy sh!t i can only almost halfway use a terminal and I now know how to install Arch BTW, thank you very much! also screw your opinion on nano
A very good example of a third party guide that gets one or two minor things wrong which screws up the entire installation. Grub didn't work for me either and none of the tips in the comments worked for me.
Thanks for the fstab tip.
I'll note that dos only allows for 4 primary partitions. If you plan on using more you should use gpt.