Arch Linux: System Installation

[@pomozmy_patrycji]

Incredible guide. In my opinion you should be a teacher. You have explained the whole installation and post-installation perfectly. Unlike other tutorials yours are indeed simple and efficient. Thank you.

[@hydn79]

This is THE best install tutorial on youtube! I fall back to it 2 years later and it still works fine with 2014 installs. UEFI was a bit of an issue but the wiki link helped. Thanks for the time taken to create such a fluid and pragmatic guide.

[@JJMza]

what have you benefited from using a GPT partitioning scheme (UEFI)?

[@masterofdizzzaster]

God i wish you made more tutorials, the way you say what you do is simple and thats what it should be like, instead of making pointless small talk. Maybe a bit robotic, true, but doesnt matter, meritum is important. Way to go, great thanks!

[@markanthonysmith413]

fantastic install and post install videos on archlinux your voice was clear and made understanding the processes very easy as i searched youtube for videos such as yours but they are few that show you the new install process including the new configuration types, typing this in kde after using your videos thanks very much.

[@9T9times]

Excellent, thank you very much for this nugget. I had this exact problem but once I found the renamed device I had it up and working again.

[@lexlazootin]

I enjoyed the way you talked, very Easy to understand!

[@ericpoirier3705]

Very nice and clear, thanks! The first time I tried it, I used wifi-menu to install the base system. After reboot, I couldn't use it anymore. Be sure to run: >pacman -S dialog before rebooting! (see wiki for more info)

[@colosistvan]

For the first he sounds a bit creepy, they he talks, but actually he is so professional and who ever has tried to install Arch that clearly understands why this precision and caution... Thanks mate, I tried to install Arch three times today but I did not notice one of my mistake that rendered my OS a wreck, I missed to pick TWO keymap options (I picked only one of the pair), and now I noticed this only from your video tut! Thanks. And it is 2015.... Please make another with the Evolution installer and with the various desktop, LTE/latest options as well.

[@ThatOneInternGuy]

Excellent video. Everything explained well and easy to follow.

[@kyaulabs]

Only for SSD drives. To clarify the discard option enables the benefits of TRIM for your SSD. According to Wikipedia... "a TRIM command allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally." This is used for sustained long-term performance and wear-leveling

[@PatrickSheets]

Thanks for the vid! Question though---aren't SSD's/4K SATA drives supposed to start at sector 2048, not 63? I have heard to use fdisk instead of cfdisk for SSD's/newer drives. At any rate, thanks for the tutorial, VERY clear and concise.

[@tristanelliott409]

EXCELLENT! Great tutorial! The only thing I have to add, is that for users who may not be using eth0 as their default Ethernet adapter, don't panic. Just write down, and or take a photo of the screen after running ifconfig while still running from the disk/thumbdrive boot. Replace eth0 with the name of your network interface and everything else works perfectly. (In my case the instruction was "systemctl enable [e-mail]"

[@conner493]

If you're trying to dual boot Arch with Windows and are going to use grub. After you install grub-bios also install os-prober with the command: pacstrap /mnt os-prober

[@JJMza]

(Partition | Swap) 6:29 "Swap should be the minimum size of your 'total' ram" I'm pretty sure everywhere else including the Arch's Wiki state that, it can also be half of your ram.

[@Dan2077x]

What is the discard for on the SSD? Should I do the same if I were to install arch linux on a flash drive? Also, good job on the video. Everything was so clear and easy to understand.

[@TarunMall]

Wow, you got awesome download speed, 780KB/s great man. You are from which country and which connection do you use?

[@vipasu]

Thank you for this. Really helpful, esp because I have a Broadcom Wireless. I like the KISS principle that you adhere to. Concerning the voice, I don't have an issue. Its fine by me.

[@SyrinxOfTemple]

Very clear instructions, thank you!

[@cyohara4961]

Hello, Just got to the ‘mkswap /dev/sdb1’ part of ‘enabling paging stage of the Partition section of ARCH installation. But got stuck with a “device or resource busy”. Can you help?

[@JJMza]

(Partition | Write to disk) 5:55 you just quit as suppose to write > quit 7:45 you saved partition table by issuing write > quit. am I missing something?

[@Ipergorilla]

I was about to comment asking for what awesome speech synthesizing software you used for the tutorial. The voice was incredibly naturally sounding but clearly synthetic, I thought... haha

[@AlcatrazLives]

same problem here ... did you resolve the issue ? I think it has something to do with the grub-setup ... but am still reading about the issue

[@zmpwins]

About the discard option, is it necessary to add that option when formatting disks?

[@zlotnleo]

eth0 and wlan0 no longer work enter "ip link" to get a list of devices. Wired connections start with "e" and wireless ones - with "w"

[@pebbe1912]

Hey, I really enjoyed your guide, but I ran into a bit of a problem, at 19:20 to be specific. Nothing happens when I enter that command, and when doing the next command, I get this: "A dependency job for [e-mail] failed. See 'journalctl -xn' for details." I'm running this in VirtualBox btw. Any ideas?

[@dylanstoesz1324]

When I type "mkfs.ext4 -E discard /dev/sdf3" I get the error "/dev/sdf3 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!"

[@Konflict4]

For the partitioning bit, what should I do if I already have Windows 8 installed? Do I delete the things like Sean did?

[@Fizkis96]

Thanks! This really helped me out! ;-)

[@VvLOGiKvV]

Awww, after all that you didn't boot into the desktop?? I was getting a bit excited to see it come to life! haha

[@19TheJohn93]

What do I do, when I have Windows installed on the hard drive, if I try to write the partitions it says"two primary partitions marked as bootable" ?

[@frank44145]

Would you happen to know of good textbook that goes into detail on linux administration? Thanks.

[@Djvas89]

i know that this video is rather old, but when i create the boot and swap partitions, as I run the fdisk -l command, it give me the message "Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary" sector size (logical/physical) : 512 bytes / 4096bytes disk label type: dos it says disk label type dos but i deleted all the partitions =X what is wrong?

[@mny7]

how do you add wifi once it's installed? everything else works, except once I install, it doesn't have a wlan or eth anymore to continue the installation.

[@AlAxelBundy]

If u want to install grub-efi u can't just go with grub-install [device]. u need to be more specific. But in case u went for grub-bios all should go well with grub-install [device]

[@7thAttempt]

It was all going so well .... but then when I tried grub-install /dev/sda I get told the source directory doesn't exist ? Any advice please ??

[@TheNinwii]

i came into two problems. first off, i got an error with the "grub-install /dev/sda" command. i (may) have found a resolve for that (not sure yet). also my partitions refuse to umount and are busy despite following every step carefully

[@BMOCroc]

i already have an Arch installation on a usb drive with 8 2TB disks in raid 5 and i want to have a fresh install of Arch. is it possible to install to a new usb drive while keeping my previous raid 5 intact to be used on the new installation usb drive?

[@mtothem1337]

Works just fine until 10:05 then it gives me an error "EXT4-fs (sda4): error loading journal" What could be wrong? i did exactly as in the video.

[@chrisbilquist9225]

Thanks. This was very helpful.

[@kinnunen4321]

when i get to 16:11 i get (command: grub-install /dev/sda1) /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: filesystem `ext2' doesn,t support embedding. /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: embedding not possible blah blah blah bbla when i use cfdisk /dev/sda, all partitions exept sda2 (swap) is ext4 how do i solve this?

[@theGunnerRu]

Thank you! I made it with your help!

[@miguelao1]

how do you initialize your internet connection if you use ethertnet instead of wifi?thxs

[@tehDoompony]

When I try to run mkfs.ext4, it says that the drive is mounted and it can't make a filesystem there, but when I unmount it, I'm told it was never mounted at all. Can someone help me out here?

[@SkateTube]

pacstrap /mnt base downloads a bunch of system files, and gives output failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) glibc:/mnt/lib filesystem... ==>ERROR: Failed to install new packages to root...

[@mat431]

There's a current bug on the may distribution regarding that. The ISO installation may list your connection as eth0, but when you boot after installing, it may change names on you. Next time just run 'ip list' to get the new name of eth0, then run 'systemctl start dhcpcd@service_name.service' again, and reboot. Should work again. The bug number is #39923 on Arch Linux's bug list. Cant link in KZbin comments, sorry!

[@TheNinwii]

please give more instructions on UEFI and GPT. i use them and following some information from this video and entirely different information from the Arch wiki is a major pain

[@VvLOGiKvV]

Preference is my guess. I don't see there really being any performance gains by putting it on ssd.

[@VulcanOnWheels]

I like your video, but cfdisk seems to have changed since you made it. I also missed the instruction to press b to make the partition bootable.

[@sYnDaEx]

Question: when im booting and installing from the cd i have a connection and the connection is wired, but when i reboot i have nothing. Can someone help me?

[@minimondlive]

すごく助かりました。

[@muzik6808]

mkswap command in sdb1 cannot make swapspace. what to do

[@jmm1233]

the umount has changed , to umount -R /mnt i get errors the other way shown

[@HigherPlanes]

Nice demo Sean

[@JJMza]

(Bootloader | syslinux) 15:07 "syslinux-install_update -iam" returns "command not found"

[@JJMza]

***** this is fixed by reassuring you have syslinux installed; 12:23,then, entering 'arch-chroot /mnt' do the command:# pacstrap /mnt syslinux

[@JJMza]

***** [SOLVED] by not forgetting the step to # pacstrap /mnt syslinux which is right after # pacstrap /mnt base

[@featon]

Why is mkinitcpio needed to edit bootloader?

[@RedStefan]

After the reboot it says: Missing a operating system, doesn't want to load even from the cd-rom. Dunno what mess I did or if any is my fault, but not gonna start using the arch linux anytime soon. :/

[@Bleh67420]

Thank you very much for this.

[@conner493]

I can't start dhcp because I get this error that says a dependency job [e-mail] failed. And I get this error on virtualbox and on my native hardware.

[@ShadowriverUB]

that means DHCP client didn't able to retrive DNS servers, if you se addresses manualy you need to create resolv by yourself

[@AddictAsh]

This video is great, but I've ran into a problem. When I get to: "systemctl start [e-mail]". It comes up with the error: "A dependency job for [e-mail] failed, See ' journalctl -xn' for details." Help? :P

[@techdragon9790]

I had an error while turning on dhcp in virtualbox "a dependancey job for dhcpcd@eth0\x2cservice.service failed. see ' journalctl -xe' for details.

[@GeekyGamingGG]

I get select label type: gpt dos sgi sun when using the cfdisk for /dev/sda

[@awmoy4135]

Geeky Gaming did u solve your problem? Cuz, I have the same right now and i'm not sure how to step forward.

[@GeekyGamingGG]

Nope, just gave up and use Evo/Lution. It's a graphical installer basically.

[@awmoy4135]

I did the same XD but after using evo I think I know how to make it. There is a special command for creating partition table. We were missing this point I think

[@GeekyGamingGG]

I agree. :/

[@Occel0t575]

Geeky Gaming Are you guys satisfied about the evo/lution installer result ? Coz I got the same issue (select label type)and I want to use it

[@Achy1les]

Great video. But, could you make a video showing how to install ArchLinux 2013 in a HD where Windows8 - UEFI/Security boot motherboard - is already installed? Nowadays notebooks are issued with Windows8/UEFI technology and it is hard to install linux on them. Please, if you can, make a video for us to be able to do so. Many thx

[@dxcqcv]

why does this video so blue, I cannot see the command

[@fubaralakbar6800]

I think this MIGHT be why Ubuntu and Mint are so popular...

[@kyaulabs]

Sorry for how the audio turned out on these new ones, I was trying something new with recording and it turned out for the worse. Next time I will stick to brief notes as reading from a script, as many have pointed out, made me sound robotic.

[@Jaagrr]

The interface is probably not eth0, try with enp0s3 or do "ip addr" to see what interface you've got.

[@thelambdafunction]

I think that is better if you aren't sure of using text-based commands

[@pritomc4788]

after rebooting i can't connect to my mifi, tried and failed... how to solve it, any suggestion ?

[@tHeMrAw]

Are you installing on a laptop? Were you able to connect to wifi during installation? Most likely if it's a laptop you have a broadcom or atheros wifi nic. You'll need to find the drivers for it. Once you find out what wifi card it is you can find the correct driver. There is a way to list pci hardware to find what model card it is but I can't think of the command at the moment.

[@knfbnny]

really nice guide

[@AddictAsh]

I fixed my problem. So please ignore my previous comment. It was just that my ethernet thing wasn't called "eth0". It was something else. I swapped it out and it worked hunky dory.

[@theclark984]

how large should a UEFI System Partition be?

[@MartinBendsoe]

"For UEFI boot, the drive needs to be GPT-partitioned and an EFI System Partition (512 MiB or larger, gdisk type EF00, formatted with FAT32) must be present." wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide/Installation

[@TheCongratulation1]

what if you don't have /dev/sdb ???????????

[@willitworks]

that >> pacstrap /mnt base command don't do the work for me its all with that operation is too slow, less the 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds. edit: any help ?

[@dierks67]

Zak Maaz you could also have a bad mirrorlist, try to update /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with newer server from the arch website.

[@mtothem1337]

Chroot don't work for me because resolv doesn't exist.

[@SoumyaSarkar]

Arch Wiki is c**p for new Arch adopters. This one is super....just great. One question what do you do to get a Desktop Environment. Is it just pacman -S gnome/kde4 ???

[@Yxaky]

Yeah, it's a know issue, explained in the Beginners' Guide on the Arch Linux wiki. Step by step here: pastebin(dot)com/hE7YtkCa

[@lemmychan]

Does nobody install Arch on UEFI? It seems that even the wiki entries are theoretical and require much more knowledge than a BIOS system

[@PyroAardVarK]

+Oberlemonne Hey man, I just wrapped up a UEFI installation on my work box. It was actually surprisingly simple, with a few things that were omitted from the beginners guide. Let me know if you need any specific information.

[@lemmychan]

Perhaps you can help. I've come to the conclusion that grub simply will not work when installed by me, it can never find my EFI directory even when I tell it where the ESP is. So I tried bootctl, which tells me my ESP partition isnt actually an ESP partition. Any ideas?

[@PyroAardVarK]

+Oberlemonne I'll post how I'm currently configured first. I went with an LVM build (not sure if you're using LVMs, but I ran into a grub/lvm2/intramfs issue on boot), with a GPT disk: [1] My first partition is a 512MB slice, formatted as FAT32 (mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdxY) for the ESP: $ sudo parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 250GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 EFI System boot, esp 2 538MB 250GB 250GB Linux LVM lvm I used gdisk, since once I created the ESP partition, it automatically added the boot, esp flags. [2] From there, I mounted my root (LVM logical volume) to /mnt, and mounted the ESP parition to /mnt/boot , and continued to follow the steps in the "Beginner''s Guide". One thing I noticed that wasn't mentioned in the Beginner's Guide (but mentioned elsewhere), is that you have to add the "lvm2" hook if you're using LVM to boot from: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM#Add_lvm2_hook_to_mkinitcpio.conf_for_root_on_LVM You mentioned grub ... the bootctl steps in the beginners guide should be all you need, no? Can you post your config (or a link to somewhere else, so we're not talking through KZbin comments)?

[@PyroAardVarK]

+Oberlemonne So I tried bootctl, which tells me my ESP partition isnt actually an ESP partition. Any ideas? ^ EF00 is the partition type for ESP, can you verify that's the partition code? Is it formatted as FAT32?

[@lemmychan]

Yep. I reformatted the partition in cgdisk and also mkfs'd it to fat32 again. No luck

[@Skellingtor]

Why not just redo this with a single SSD instead of with two. It's confusing.

[@eleuinvideos]

you can run a i686 ISO on a x64 machine. its just that you cant run a x64 ISO on a x86 machine.

[@JanUC3mQtGq3NMcyMVdhm6md]

Thank you for calling Arch Foundation TM. For Arch Linux installation tutorial, press 1...

[@wllinux]

You only made it sadder. tyvm.

[@supersteve1440]

You can just say "slash" instead of "forward slash". We'll know what you're referring to.

[@raymondhill7837]

God Arch Linux is hardcore

[@georged8961]

+Normie here As hardcore as this may seem, it really is not. I remember when i first tried to install RedHat 6 (90's) i was trying to install the OS for endless hours with my mate debating each and every option :)

[@SkateTube]

and then arch-chroot /mnt doesn't work..

[@AndrewJohnsonevermore707]

not every beginner is going to use 2 HDD's for initial setup.

[@TheSonyman101]

no offence but you kind of remind me of siri on the iphone

[@TheNinwii]

it means you dont have two harddrives

[@VvLOGiKvV]

ahhh, yeah that's true

[@benjaminpapp512]

enp0s10 in my case

[@grynn7864]

Good tutroial. I just wish the guys giving the tutorial didnt give an upward inflection at the end of literally every phrase. Feel like im listening to a high school girl talk down to me.

[@mtothem1337]

i get 14.6mb/s from SE servers. "14600kb/s"

[@blueone9098]

You should have put Wifi in the heading, not everyone use Wifi and so this is only for people that has Wifi.

[@rms3515]

if you ting i install any OS like that you ar rong, so rong

[@galaxxy09]

can you be a little bit less like a robot?

[@Aar0nDavis]

+galaxxy09 No no no no no no! He sounds cool!

[@soulelemanator97]

Such a robotic voice..... I'm a little intimidated now.

[@raymondhill7837]

God Arch Linux is hardcore