Arch Linux Monthly Install: January 2022

In this video I am installing Arch Linux with the January 2022 ISO. In the system I am going to install with btrfs, timeshift, i3 gaps and much more!
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[@chalybesmith]

Thank you for another great tutorial! I find it very helpful, that you post up to date installation guides, since archlinux moves so fast and there are quite frequent "best practice" changes. As for the pace, it was perfect for my level of experience with Arch!

[@briainodriscoll]

Long time Debian user here, prepping to install Arch for the first time. Much appreciating your attention to detail and sharing the know-how. Happy New Year!

[@pranav666]

How is it

[@baran6186]

We missed you Ermanno, Thanks for the tutorial ❤

[@juanlemod]

Thank you so much!!! I like these longer videos where you go through everything step-by-step instead of utilizing scripts you pull from your github, and I also appreciate when you explain what each command or flags you add to a command does instead assuming we know what it is. You are a plethora of knowledge, and I also appreciate when you include sources for those of us interested in further reading to better understand certain concepts or commands. You are amazing!!!! 😊

[@psravan]

Thank you for the detailed Arch Installation videa. It helped me a lot in installing Arch for the first time

[@dingokidneys]

Great tutorial. I found the pacing good as I've watched a few of your arch installs before but was keen to see how you'd handle the few different things you were doing. I'm going to save this video for reference. Thanks.

[@seanpaul7069]

Hello Ermanno. Thanks for another video guide. Appreciate your work you do for the Arch community. Stay safe!

[@boyscout399]

Pacing in videos is great I think. Keep up the good work. I've learned so much from you

[@saidneder41]

Hello Ermanno, just wanted to say thank you so much! This guide is great!

[@pigeon5601]

Happy new year of the Linux Desktop!

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Wonderful video 😊 I told some buddies of mine to watch because they always having issue installing, and it is because the way the wiki reads. You have the way to teach as you read off the wiki. I really wished they would make the wiki more friendly to read. Many of these people have used nothing but windows or a Linux distro that they don't understand common Linux terms. Thanks again Ermonno ps I might use i3 for a while 😂

[@Ghost_Who_Walks]

as always you are awesome! Happy New Year, Ermanno! :D

[@levpetrovsky1]

Gosh! You teach like a teacher e God mode! Congrats and Happy New Year!

[@act.13.41]

Thank you Ermanno. I have been watching these and learning. I have always been a openSUSE user and have played with Arch a lot over the years. I picked and chose from several of your videos to do a custom loadout of Arch on my two year old laptop. BTRFS on the NVME drive. Timeshift for my snapshots. I almost went with a Systemd bootloader, but due to familiarity, I settled on Grub. KDE with nothing but QT applications for now. I decided not to put home on a separate partition. Being a part-time use, it should never have a huge home folder and I can always grab a quick backup of it on a shared drive. I put xrdp on it and I can connect to it with RDP from my Windows desktop and I can get connected, but so far, all I get is a black screen with a cursor. I am getting close, but no desktop yet. It seemed so easy on openSUSE, but not so on Arch.

[@alexanderschmidt9157]

Great video as always, been getting into arch lately to gain a deeper understanding of Linux and overall how stuff like DEs and File Systems work; Keep going, great content and always a pleasure to watch, watched and successfully set up a VM first try, worked like a charm :D

[@HipoTamek]

Happy New Year Ermanno ! It's nice that you found time for a new movie despite your new job.

[@andersonls1701]

Obrigado EF e feliz ano novo, você é muito importante no mundo linux no arch linux.

[@kumartatsat868]

absolutely wonderful installation guide! thank you so much sir!

[@cunjoz]

thank you for this tutorial. it will be very helpful since my laptop did a bork for some reason. happy new year of 2022 to you too (that's a lot of "too" sounds lmao)

[@ianstuartgraemecallender7897]

happy new year friend 2022

[@lionux6506]

Thanks a lot ! Especially for locales configurations 🙂

[@satysin630]

Great video as always. If you're taking suggestions for February how about: EFI, systemd-boot, LUKS, btrfs, NetworkManager, Wayland, Sway, Waybar, Kitty or Alacritty along with timeshift with automatic boot menu entries on pacman triggers for fallback? :) Okay might be asking a bit too much with the pacman triggers but everything other than timeshift would be pretty cool. I would say systemd-network but it still isn't as good as NetworkManager imho. Hope you had a great new year!

[@kanashimi6209]

Thank you for the useful video, keep up the good work!!

[@gerds.9956]

Hello Ermanno, thank You for this wonderfull Tutorial👍🏻 I wish You and Your Family a wonderfull and healthy 2022

[@whylde7834]

Thank you sir! You are the best!

[@user-gp9ln4wj1r]

Very useful! Thanks!

[@RobbieJacobs_Talks]

15:26 >> You mentioned that the pace of the video might be an issue? A quick fix from the viewer perspective might be to type in the command in full first and THEN explain what you are doing. This will give people a chance to type (and pause way before the enter button is pushed) if they are new and more advanced users a chance to listen while double checking their spelling. Food for thought?

[@avinashsharma5234]

Thanks for this. Some wise people said that to learn Linux, I should start with Arch including you and I decided to use Arch finally. I tried these methods on The February release in VirtualBox but the systemctl and many other commands seemed to be broken, demanding "glibc_2.34". Would love to see your magical performance on this month's release. Hope you grow a million times the videos you have released. Edit: I have installed Arch using a previous release. I am just looking forward to see how this problem will be solved. I am kinda noob, you know.

[@enetheru]

NGL your pacing and presentation was fantastic. I could have watched double the amount. I would like to see you replace i3-status with i3-status-rust, add powerline or starship to your terminal, and generally more things.

[@enetheru]

oh and pipewire, wayland etc, I'm going to go through your other videos now.

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Great seeing you Mr Ferrari. I noticed in this months iso reflector automatically found my country and did the fastest 20 mirrors. I usually fallow along and install on KVM however my cell is having issues with the resolution with KZbin stuck on the lowest settings. Funny thing is I just put to metal arch early this morning.

[@act.13.41]

I had not checked that. I like his method of setting up reflector so much, I added the command string to my alias list.

[@Mikkysam52]

this video is perfect, thank you very much

[@sergiomartinezjover1425]

thanks, great video

[@esmirol]

Only one word: GREAT!

[@Ja.KooLit]

nice video as always... surprised you didnt use your gitlab scripts.. Anyway, as always, great tutorial. you deserve more sub

[@dylanneely91]

I feel like that doesn't make much sense for teaching the actual mechanics of getting arch up and running

[@firmansyah-nx8xi]

Wowww, its my fristime im use linux de i3 and i love it

[@Schweppese]

Hey, Ermanno. Thank you for the tutorial! I followed your last BTRFS with Timeshift tutorial from a few months ago and I notice that in this one we mount the subvolumes in an identical way. I've also watched the Chris Titus's BTRFS and reading the BTRFS wiki where is says that for both Flat and Nested layouts the top/root level and I quote: "toplevel (volume root directory, not to be mounted by default)". In Chirs's example he has the top/root as a level 5 and root/@, root/@home & root/@var as level 256, but when I follow your guide both @,@home,@var appear to be level 5. Now my question is, is this top/root level just our BTRFS file system (dev/sdX, etc.) that we've partitioned or is it a subvolume that we have to create and why does @,@home,@var appear to be level 5 and not 256 as it is recommended for timeshift snapshots? Danke im Voraus!

[@zlibkorn]

push

[@Giovanni2862]

Salve! Spero che quando tornerai a fare video, dopo una meritata vacanza, farai una nuova serie di video su i3wm. Propongo pipewire e sddm.

[@zish3655]

Hey Ermanno could you please make a video on RiverWM? It's a wayland-based dynamic tiling window manager, I'm daily-driving it right now and it's awesome!

[@keyur549]

Thank you very much Ermanno for making this video. It was very easy to follow and informative. I stumbled upon one issue - after the install I am not able to log back in when the system goes to sleep after being idle for sometime. I had to restart. I am going to Google and see if I can find a solution but if you already know then I would really appreciate if you let us know.. thanks again for the video :)

[@bmca1123]

Ermanno, amazing content as always. I thought the pacing was fine. I was able to follow along and pause and continue. One question. How do you configure a btrfs filesystem if you are dual booting with windows 10?

[@danishmohammad3793]

I am going to dual boot with windows 10. is the config different?

[@hexearth8258]

2022-01-01 Arch ISO boots with the correct PT keyboard. It is a VM on Proxmox but I think older Arch ISO's were booting with EN keymaps. Well, this one is correct, so it's nice. Let's have a great 2022 with loads of Arch/Linux videos.

[@jishnubiswas9399]

Wow sick ! You make such great setups with arch almost everytime the arch iso gets updated. Probably the most updated setups with the latest instructions/changes from the wiki. Any plans on covering such exotic setups with Void Linux ?

[@atpray]

It is si coincidental, I recently converted by ext4 to btrfs and your video here hah. I used btrfs-convert, from live usb. But then problem was that it didn't make any subvolume and timeshift didn't work. So i made @ and @home subvolume manually and moved content. Changed fstab to mount @home to @/home.

[@othernicksweretaken]

Why did you install your grub config @20:58 to grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg I thought you had created with gdisk a GPT layout with an ESP partition in /dev/vda1 So shouldn't you have installed the menu to grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/arch/grub.cfg or similar?

[@babattaja]

Thanks for the tutorial, my bios update messed my Arch boot. I've installed with your guide, but how i should proceed on chrooting into my system?

[@barryjohnson2756]

Please do a tutorial of how to mount ntfs partations with the new ntfs3 backed in the new linux kernel 5.15 and how to generate it in the /etc/fstab file system.

[@zephyrus7258]

Is Z ram a good alternative to using a swap file on a persistent USB drive, or is it best to continue journaling in the ram?

[@AbarSimorgh]

Thank you for sharing. You videos on Arch has encouraged me to install Arch. Have been using openSUSE Leap as my daily drive since 2016. How do I create /swapfile when using btrfs? Been following arch wiki Swap_file_creation and arch wiki Btrfs Swap_file but get swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument when doing swapon /swapfile Would appreciate any help. Thanks

[@Fabiuja]

Great video as always! I’ve got a question. I’ve made that installation and all goes ok. Plus i add luks encryption to my partition. What i want to know is the following. Does i need to encrypt ztamd partition? What i suppose is not ‘cause zramd swap clean up when i shut down arch ‘cause swap is stored in ram memory. Is it right?

[@ikestoddard2458]

Ermanno, thank you very much for a very helpful channel. You are appreciated! I have noticed that you have a tendency to execute shell scripts without showing us the syntax first. Then the speed of execution plus “pause the video” makes it impossible to view the shell script. I am going back to review some things, and on March 15, 2021, packages.sh was hidden this way. I would very much like to see it! I may have to replace 25% of my packages tomorrow, so my itch is about to need scratching! Thanks again!

[@nicoandresrodriguez]

Hey Ermano thank you for the awesome vd about Arch!, question why don't use iwctl for setting the wifi after install?

[@eflinux]

Because I’d use nmtui, since Network Manager is installed.

[@Edi61]

Gibt es zum Video auch alle Befehle? So das ich das auf meinen Computer installieren kann.

[@bob196]

11:11 amd-ucode don't include in linux-firmware?

[@Sigisss]

The best.

[@adamu6941]

Hi, many thanks for this video. Why dont use the Archinstall builtin script ?

[@mucioosoriosanchez8070]

Sorry, it is not the issue but, my boot partition in archlinux is 100 Mb and in the last update I got a message: "The volume“ boot ”has only 4 MB disk space remaining. What can I do? Thank you very much and Happy New Year.

[@SearInMinecraft]

Well before you made this video I have already installed the January 2022 build

[@piotrtalarczyk8987]

Hi, Ermanno. I was thinking: can I share /var/cache/pacman/pkg across my all Arch machines? What you think? Is there some better solution?

[@klebfreitas]

It would be good if there's a way to make this installation with both partitions /home and / separated, I've tried out this one but I haven't success.

[@DanielHf]

that bug i fixed using V2 but i also had another bug i couldn't fix "open_ctree failed" Do you know what is it?

[@lin5977]

It seems the ucode package is already included, test this by doing the pacstrap without ucode and then pacstrap ucode. I did this and it told me the package is already installed.

[@Eyuphuro]

Do a tutorial on secure boot using grub bootloader or using .efi file directly.

[@jamesabernathy9744]

The more I dig into snapshots, the more I realize that they solve the problem with rolling back, but I have not found anything about a proper way to recover a bad hard drive or SSD. I've done some work with btrfs send/receive to create full backups but the restore to a fresh install of the O/S can be painful. Any tutorial on that would be great.

[@thulfiquaryusuf4806]

Hi, Ermanno. Can I follow these steps to install with BIOS?

[@greenbean5186]

You should do one install video on hybrid graphic laptop with power management, drivers, etc... all that necessary for the laptop up and running just like how it would on windows.

[@eflinux]

I have already done some of those. You can search for "hybrid" on the channel.

[@jamesabernathy9744]

I've watched you BTRFS videos and wonder about timeshift vs. snapper. Which should I use?

[@eflinux]

For the ease of use, I'd go with Timeshift.

[@mateofranciscoahumada4392]

Hi, what is the other option to install grub?

[@craigw4644]

Love these Arch install instructional postings. It's so much better to do things step-by-step as compared to using an installer.

[@mk-cl4nd]

Hi at 26:35 after a reboot i dont get option of grub i get install arch menu instead, do you know why is that happening

[@eflinux]

You need to remove the iso.

[@eyvazhumbatli]

Hey. Why do you sometimes use ntp sync at first and sometimes not?

[@eflinux]

Sometimes I forget to do it at the beginning.

[@folksurvival]

Video suggestion: Alpine Linux.

[@atreusduvelll600]

I am seeing a new issue that just came up today and I am wondering if anyone might have seen a similar problem. I've been using the same script to install Arch for about 4 months now, and it's always worked. Today when I tried with the new Jan ISO, when I generate the fstab, the boot partition writes it's UUID incorrectly. Manuakky updating the UUID fixed it. Did something change with the way either grub installs or the way the fstab gets generated? Thanks in advance

[@eflinux]

Hi Mark, which script are you using?

[@atreusduvelll600]

@@eflinux Hmm, not sure why, but my reply comments don't seem to be showing here. I've added two now and don't see them show in this thread. Anyone know why?

[@farzammaghouli-kp5cr]

you have many arch install videos, how do i know which is right for me?

[@eflinux]

Good question. It depends what kind of of you have first and second, what you want to install and how. There are always some changes between videos, your best option is to expire and see.

[@archimanchakraborty7772]

Hey Ermano i have a question ... i have 2 ssds... i want to use my nvme as root and ssd as home both with btrfs... how can i create subvol and mount both of them??

[@eflinux]

You should be able to create a filsystem with mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdx /dev/sdx. The file system will then create the subvolumes appropriately.

[@archimanchakraborty7772]

@@eflinux for nvme we create subvol after mounting /dev/sdx to /mnt and then btrfs su cr /mnt/@ right... then we unmount /mnt... now for the second ssd/nvme how can we create subvol?? can we mount them to /mnt??

[@eflinux]

Once the file system is created you can just mount the first drive to /mnt and then follow the usual procedure for the subvolumes. It doesn’t mean it uses only the first drive, it uses the whole filesystem for that.

[@archimanchakraborty7772]

@@eflinux oukay i will try it now

[@archimanchakraborty7772]

@@eflinux thanks Ermano...

[@diegogomes5837]

Já faz mais de um ano e ainda não consegui instalar esse bendito Arch

[@Sakhile_Mamba]

Everything went well until I put in the reboot command (26 minutes into the video), I then got a screen that read: No bootable Devices. I didn't get a Grub menu, instead I was taken back to the UEFI boot loader to install arch again, I am installing from a bootable USB. I made sure to disable safe boot and change from Legacy to UEFI before I began the installation process.

[@Sakhile_Mamba]

What can I do?

[@eflinux]

Did you remove the ISO after reboot?

[@damonbeaver]

@20:42 what's the recheck option

[@mateofranciscoahumada4392]

Same question

[@damonbeaver]

@@mateofranciscoahumada4392 you figure it out? i remember i figured it out with a few keywords in a google search... this was a few arch installs ago though lol

[@pacman7168]

I switch Arch Linux to Void Linux

[@douglaidlaw740]

I am not against Arch in principle; its documents are very good. But I am having enough trouble keeping my system going, than to start building one from scratch.

[@eflinux]

I understand what you mean.

[@DaniSpeh]

Agree, I have a very similar system as the installed in this video with opensuse and a couple of clicks. That said, at least every sysadmin or Linux poweruser should configure a couple of Arch installs to see how everything works together. Since I've installed Arch a couple of times with different configurations, it's a lot easier to troubleshoot my systems

[@DaniSpeh]

It will me take some time to start using tiling window managers though :D

[@heisenbergon]

mbr leagasy video ?

[@mbvalency]

it's about the same process. Harddisk partitioned with mbr scheme. You dont need to create the first vfat partition. The internet should have enough information about that, because it was the standard before GPT/UEFI.

[@typingcat]

Damn, 50 minutes to install an OS. Is it really worth the effort compared to install more sane ones like Manjaro or Ubuntu? I guess, maybe we could reduce the disk space/RAM usage slightly by not installing things we do not need, but all the time needed to learn to do this and do this seems to defeat the purpose. I mean, there is a reason why we use C instead of assembly (other than special cases), even if the latter is faster and more efficient.

[@eflinux]

In a video yes. Once you are used to install Arch it doesn't take more than 15-20 min for a full install.

[@leverkuhn67]

Thank you Ermanno for this wonderful tutorial. I have a question though : why are you using 'mkfs.vfat /dev/vda1' to create the partition for the bootloader, instead of 'mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/efi_system_partition' as recommanded in the arch wiki ? Your method creates a FAT16 partition instead of a FAT32. Is it a problem ?