How to Install Arch Linux

[@Scythe1337]

"Hey guys, David here from ggogddffttff..." WTF

[@VSPG_SIVANI]

+XGN sythE That was the best comment! Edit: I can't live without seeing this comment once a day! how hilarious!xD

[@Scythe1337]

Vln Murthy :D

[@itpugil]

gave me a good laugh hahahaha

[@tr3335]

XDDDDD im crying

[@gilsonviana4936]

Laughed my pants off! HAHAHAHHAH

[@biswajitmahapatra9662]

I just cannot describe in words how frustrated I was because of all the other arch forums and videos... sure, some stuff definitely changed in this time period of 6 years, it is not much. Thank you so much for making life easier for me. Really. helped me a lot. But, you should make an updated video for this. Again, thank you.

[@SimpleNot1759]

Gosh, I made it. On old funny laptop. It took extra 2 hours messing with some stuff but I went throught those 13 mins and now it works. Thank you, thank you even after 5 years!

[@ТайныйЯ-к3ь]

The installation should be more complicated. I'm not satisfied enough.

[@JapanScript]

lol, i agree

[@ТайныйЯ-к3ь]

***** Linux From Scratch will do.

[@ultimategameplay1]

Good luck.

[@Cobalt985]

Try Gentoo. I lost network connectivity in the middle and had a mental breakdown after I could not find the cause. (turns out it was the cable though lol)

[@brokenmiind]

try gentoo

[@Sesshounamaru7]

You should rename this video as "Installing Arch... NO-BULLSHIT Edition"

[@Sesshounamaru7]

Kafkaesque >:D No !!

[@llliiilll6564]

That's so true!!

[@carloscolmena02]

Sesshounamaru Autism

[@RixFPV]

This video helped me to get Arch base running quickly with no problems and more importantly minimal reading. Thank you very much!

[@AlexandraCPacker]

Thank you - very clear and easy to follow. Worked very well for me, and I would have had no idea where to start if I hadn't found this guide.

[@GiorgosIoak]

Best arch install video i have seen. For x64 computers you may need to add --force to the grub-install command. ( It should look like: grub-install --force /dev/sda )

[@hoplite9908]

There are a lot of comments below about the cfdisk and partitioning part of the video. I am using the latest version (2016.06.01-dual) and have tried the cfdisk tool. While it has changed a little from the layout here the confusion is arising as his disk already had a partition table (dos type) as there were already two partitions on it when he logged into it. If the disk is completely blank with no partition table at all (a partition table is needed for any partition type) the first screen asks for the label which is the partition type. He uses dos so stick with that. Gpt is required for uefi booting (the new type of booting on most modern machines - desktop or laptop). In fact, manufacturers are gradually not supporting legacy (bios type) booting any longer on their most recent machines (differs I'm sure from manufacturer to manufacturer). For a uefi booting machine it is different and an efi partition is required as well (512M normally and the type EFI is selected for it) formatted to FAT32. For gpt with bios booting the type and bootable options are selectable with 't' or 'b' - just click on help to see the options. Dos type partition has these available on the screen as per the video above. Also Grub for efi needs to be selected as the grub he selects here won't work on an uefi booting machine. I think virtualbox supports uefi booting so play around with it to see the difference and get it all working. I have found VM's invaluable for learning this low-level booting multi-boot stuff as you can make and break machines to your heart's content.

[@subtector]

You should make a updated version of this video as this no longer works because cfdisk has been updated. I'm stuck on installing GRUB, but it fails because I apparently have no boot flag (Because you can't set one on GPT).

[@adonespitogonaif]

+subtector I am in the same situation, have you figured out this yet?

[@frederickamara3650]

+adones pitogo In cfdisk, make the type of the / partition BIOS Boot and then installing GRUB will work.

[@goguda55]

When selecting the partition table type in cfdisk, choose DOS. That'll fix the issue :)

[@subtector]

adones pitogo yeah. I decided to follow a longer and more updated tutorial. 😂

[@LambOfDemyelination]

+subtector parted /dev/sdb set 1 bios_grub on mount -a /etc/fstab (to update)

[@AverageLinuxUser]

I agree with​ you on having only root partition. I simplify it even further and use a swap file. P.S. Some of my subscribers sent me to your channel. Great videos.Subbed.

[@goahnary]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! This makes arch so easy! I went through the headache of installing arch with a long and ridiculously difficult install. Connecting to the internet straight out of the gate solved everything!

[@goahnary]

Also, please make a video on how to get xserver running. That process is giving me a headache as well.

[@goguda55]

Noah Gary Haha, funny you ask that, because I've been considering that video for a while now :)

[@goahnary]

I found another video that does it. No understanding whatsoever of what I did though. I would like to know some basics.

[@goguda55]

Noah Gary Haha, well keep checking my channel; I'll move that video higher up on my priority list!

[@TheSmiddy]

This guide is amazing. Infinitely better than the official documentation. You made the entire process as painless as possible, especially compared to what it could have been.

[@lassielyra]

I agree.. The documentation is extremely difficult to follow for a newbie. Although they are perfect to quickly check something if you already know 70% of what needs to be done XD

[@glennzone12]

Hey guys David here from **assortment of consonants** tech tutorials here

[@xika0s]

The only problem I got in the installation process was in the instalation of GRUB, but I flagged the --force option and it installed succesfully. Thanks for the tutorial, very straight forward.

[@txh00kem]

Thanks for the tip!

[@RaitonGG]

not sure why you edited out the pauses. that means we have to pause the video every 3 seconds to replicate what you are doing also at min 11:42 when typing genfstab /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab I get this error : /mnt/etc/fstab: No such file or directory

[@VictorE1030]

That might be because you're still chrooted. type "quit" and try again

[@VictorE1030]

that might be because you're still chrooted. type "exit" and try again

[@ynothughes]

+Victor's Visuals I get the same "no such file directory: mnt/etc/fstab" message

[@ynothughes]

+Anthony Hughes never mind... i got it. thank you

[@TheTurtleOfGods]

You need to run the "exit" command first

[@jjbeast098]

Thank you so much for this video! I had a problem installing grub, so I’ll leave the solution here for anyone who has the same problem. If you are getting an error saying “This gpt partition label contains no bios boot partition,” use cfdisk to make a 200 megabyte partition and make the type BIOS boot. If you need free space, make the main partition .2 Gb smaller. Now installing grub should work.

[@dustinm2717]

you should make an updated version to clarify anything that may of changed since this video was made

[@gradientO]

Lol. Your comment is already 4yrs old

[@DarkBraveStuff]

Maybe with GPT and UEFI support

[@onetamer]

Very useful when coming from another distribution. That's the fastest way to get up and running. Thanks for making this video!

[@neogenesys2012]

KZbin (Google) should add a "Love" button. Thanks a ton! My last Arch attempt left me feeling quite vulnerable and intimidated...so I put it off for a few years. Now, I have the time to play with it and I come across this video first. Very encouraging. I am actually installing it now. I'm sure I may have a few more issues because I'm using an actual machine and the machine is quite a few years old, but dispelling the unneeded confusion goes a very long way...

[@gstlouisable]

at 6.23 minutes for wifi connections, menu-wifi no longer exists on new boot iso's. You will need to use iwctl here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Iwd#iwctl what was also missing from devel is mkinitcpio that is no longer on the base install. I installed with pacman pacman -S mkinitcpio, then another problem was to pacman -S linux and linux-firmware for mkinitcpio to actually use the linux img

[@shaysreblog]

Two thumbs way up for this. This is the one that finally made me understand how. Those having problems with cfdisk: choose dos instead of gpt. That seems to work at least.

[@sarc0tic32]

I don't understand why anyone would want to create a seperate home partition and a seperate root partition. All that does is limit the size of the programs you can install, and it also overcomplicates things to a maximum degree. Thanks for this tutorial; it gave me a visual representation of what to do before I do it.

[@alpotero6503]

this kind of installation of arch linux is slightly similar to the installation of slackware linux.. I liked it thanks for this amazing tutorial this is a big help for my arch linux research :D

[@fhautomacao2197]

Finally!!! Someone who knows stuff and is not stutterer! This tutorial I'm gonna watch, I bet in 13 minutes you put more information in these vídeo than any other "half hour" tutorial around KZbin made by those "no one fucking, slow minds". Thanx dude.

[@goguda55]

Hey guys. Due to popular request, I've posted a video on how to install a desktop environment after you've followed this tutorial. You can get to it by either clicking the annotation I've put in the video, by clicking the link in the description, or by clicking here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmWsh2h4jrWchtU Hope you all find it useful!

[@angryhammerite3849]

I recently set up Arch Linux to dual boot with Debian 8.1 "Jessie" on my new laptop. Here's how I went about that: (note that I installed Debian first to be my primary operating system) 1) When setting up Debian's partitions, I had left 100GB free space for a possible future dual boot, which of course turned out to be the aforementioned Arch Linux. I also already created a swap partition for Debian, and the same swap partition can be used for both operating systems, so I didn't need to make another one when setting up Arch. 2) I already had 3 primary partitions for Debian, and I'm limited to either 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary and 1 extended, so I created an extended partition with the 100GB free space I had left, and then created logical partitions for root and home. (yes I'm one of those goofballs who uses a separate home partition, so I mounted root into /mnt, then went into the /mnt directory and created a home directory [# mkdir -p home] to mount the home partition into) Don't worry, Linux will boot from a logical partition. (it isn't Windows :P) 3) After the initial Arch install finished and I set up some other things (root password, locale, timezone, etc) I didn't need to install the GRUB bootloader because it was already installed when I set up Debian. However I did need to boot into Debian after I was finished and update GRUB so that Arch would show up on its list. Other than that I pretty much did what this tutorial said, or more accurately I followed the official ArchWiki documentation =)

[@MrAlekoukos]

Things i had to do for my internet connection: -use an ethernet cable -create a netctl profile and enable,start it -use ip link to find my interface for my profile -disable ipv6 -went to grub file edited GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" the brackets and then generated a new file for grub and it worked.I could use pacman. -i also had to delete a /var/lib/pacman/db.lc file because i had issues starting pacman. You can google everything.That's what i did +i had experience with my previous struggles of installing arch. wiki has information aboug disabling ipv6 editing the grub file and info about an ethernet profile.

[@RevJToad]

Overall, I'm *for* the way you edited the sound - it keeps the pace snappy, and every line feels worthwhile. This is a great, great tutorial (so far - I'm not done yet, but I'm not anticipating any problems at this point). There may have been a moment or two where you could have left another 1/4 second or so in there without killing the flow. But this is a very minor quibble.

[@SuperMewio]

hey guys, before you reboot and you're on a wifi connection make sure you install "dialog" and "wpa_supplicant" or else you wont be able to connect to the internet on your root drive ;)

[@zmiiee]

Also, if you get the error warning: no database file for 'extra' 'core' 'community' you can run: pacman -Syy and then pacman -Syu

[@TokyoChopSquad]

Well crap. I already booted and I can't get a graphical desktop installed because I don't have a wifi connection (wired isn't working either) any ideas on how to fix this?

[@zmiiee]

load the boot disk again, cd into your installation and install what you need to

[@SuperMewio]

Nathan Hovey Mr. Smilee is right! Do as he says!

[@TokyoChopSquad]

Mr. Smilee Easy enough. thanks

[@cornelvis]

Excellent video. I was pulling my hair with this install on Oracle VBox. This showed me exactly what I was doing wrong. I followed every step and I booted A-L successfully now.

[@VulcanOnWheels]

9:20 If you're in the directory you want to use in, say the ln command, could you just use ., instead of typing the whole path?

[@deepblue_arts2598]

Hi I got to 6:21, “wifi-menu” did not help me. Any other options to install WiFi from cmd prompt?

[@hoplite9908]

David, the other thing mentioned by one or more below is this setup does not turn on the internet connection. A final step would have been to have that turned on at boot up. The dhcp service needs to be started to get it to work. Using the ip link command the network card is down on boot up and has to be started. Not sure of the right way to do it but putting the command in the rc.local file should do it. If others know of a better way to do it please let me know.

[@hoplite9908]

Figured it out: - There will be no internet cxn with the above installation - assuming the wired cxn is used thn copy the ethernet-dhcp file in /etc/netctl/examples to the netctl folder - change the interface to the name of the network device (enp0s3 something like that) and save it as my-ethernet-dhcp - check it works with "netctl start my-ethernet-dhcp" - if ok then enable it with "netctl enable my-ethernet-dhcp" and it will be on at each subsequent boot up - how to set up wifi or auto shifting between wired and wifi is described on the Arch wiki

[@tzaicevas]

And one more question, why dont you use "-U" parameter on genfstab? That way you can modify swap partition for trim support (if its ssd)

[@Jadinandrews]

0:01 How many times did you practice this?

[@TheTurtleOfGods]

Fixes to common problems: you must do "pacman -Syy" then "pacman -S archlinux-keyring" before installing base and base-devel with pacstrap. Also after installing grub (10:34 in the video), make sure to do "pacman -S install wpa_supplicant dialog", or else you won't have wifi when booting into your system. If you have no internet upon booting up your system, first check "wifi-menu", or if you use ethernet run "dhcpcd" to start it uo. After your first boot-up, update pacman with "pacman -Syy" then install a desktop environment (Ex. lxde, plasma, mate, cinnamon, etc.) To start that environment, run "sddm" if you installed plasma, or "lxdm" if you installed anything else. Remember this tutorial is bios only so UEFI systems (a.k.a. new Windows computers) will need to do different procedures. Always leave some free space in partitioning for error or for if grub needs it, and when in doubt, use ethernet cables. Make sure to check comments for common fixes as well.

[@SwipeSide19]

when I do cfdisk, I get the option between gpt, and like 3 other things, which one do I do? I looked through all and none fothem are like your screen :(

[@goguda55]

Do you have an option for MBR? I've never seen that before, but I'm assuming it's asking you to create a new partition table. MBR, if it's there, is what you would want to create.

[@shftn2gear97]

The dos option is the most similar to the one in the video.

[@SwipeSide19]

goguda55 Tech Tutorials now it won't let me choose an option, I'm stuck with gpt. But found out I have to enable EFI in virtualbox. Butnow I get to the grub, and I see something called Arch Linux x86_64 USB, which goes back to the install thing, 2 other options, and one last option which just goes back to the grub :(

[@ygorufukaff6975]

LiquidAurum You shouldn't have to enable efi for a GPT, but you would have to leave about 2M of space free at the begining of your disk for the bootloader image.

[@Brockenpick]

I picked dos and it worked just fine.

[@ahmedmessoudi]

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial but I have a problem. My internet connexion works fine (I get to ping google.com with 0% packet loss) but anytime I try to run the pacstrap command I get the "failed retreiving core.db from.... : Resolving timed out" and it goes trough all the list of http and ftp mirrors without ever being able to get the core.db file. I've checked on the arch mirrors status they seem online... Is there a way to fix this??? I also tried to change the nameservers according to my isp and still nothing...

[@donovon9187]

im stuck at 4:31. im using a rasberry pi is that the issue as well as arch linux arm

[@sciencewithsteve6832]

I forgot to add that this is a very well put together video. Great work, keep up the amazing tutorials!

[@jammicnix]

I learnt Linux from your channel years ago...thank you ..

[@andrewsepulveda5355]

Would we need to also verify the iso file with the sig file before burning it into our cd? That's what it says in the arch linux beginners guide

[@goguda55]

You can, but it's not necessary. Most of the time, the ISO copying goes just fine. If you want to be extra safe though, you can :)

[@laurenshoogenboom6578]

Hi, thanks for the clear tutorial. I've done just as you said, but for a different zone and locale. I do get an error though. The installation seemed to be perfect, but when i boot it says this: error: no such device ad4103fa....(etcetera) Loading Linux core repo kernel ... error: no such partition. Loading initial ramdisk ... error: you need to load the kernel first press any key to continue please help me. Is it just the part with grub that went wrong? and do i need to do it all over again to fix it? Thanks.

[@nikolaoschristosnikolaidis]

One of the best out there. Still working with the latest Arch iso. The tutorial would have been perfect if it contained a basic xorg configuration. But that can be easily found at ArchWiki. Thank you! :)

[@Anorak4K]

I recieved an error while installing grub /dev/sda grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition embedding won't be possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However blocklists are unreliable and their use is discouraged Can anyone please help

[@goguda55]

I'd suggest trying to make a separate boot partition and installing GRUB on that. GRUB can load just fine from a separate partition.

[@christopherfortinuex]

I got the same exact issue with it Seems unreliable if arch can't even install the same every time either.

[@KristherLouisVidal]

+TheDiabeticGeek Same problem the wiki said you need to use --force parameter wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB

[@alexanderstamos9502]

+Kristher Louis Vidal You should never use the force...

[@acerossoni7149]

+TheDiabeticGeek guy, try this. Start your PC and press F12 until the boot menu is up. Go where it says "Change Boot Mode Setting", hit enter and switch Legacy to ON. If there's no legacy, switch both UEFI to ON. That'll do the trick. I've had the same problem before.

[@YMica-OSE]

9:15 When setting the timezone: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/[in this case is every time zone] /etc/localtime I got: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/localtime' : File exists Then I checked /etc/localtime and it's not a directory (I used ls and I saw localtime in cyan text)

[@santanubehera2937]

hello Sir ! Can you tell me how can I connect to the internet which is behind proxy system? Which you did just before pacstrap ...etc .

[@Overgreen]

When I do the CFDISK it asks "Select label type" so... what do i do?

[@Prince_of_all_Saiyans]

The video was short and sweet and i did install the distro . Now how am i suppose to install the GUI . please provide me with a video tutorial for GUI post installation process .

[@lunedefroid8817]

7:45 if you are using wireless connection type in pacman -S iw wpa_supplicant dialog It will install packages that will allow you to use wifi-menu after you eject your livecd(or a flash card).

[@fiskmasen8599]

If it says "failed to create symbolic link" unlink /etc/localtime then write the command again

[@ucNguyen-tv9vn]

bro (y)

[@marungshabrahma336]

Can you please tell me how to get atheros ethernet working? I cant install base-devel with pacstrap as a result.

[@ayushnair9921]

after typing pacstrap /mnt base base-devel, it runs for sometime(upto usb-modeswitch), then throws an error :signature from evangelos foutras is invalid. I searched the internet but didnot found any working solution for this . Can you please help on this?

[@evgenstoyka4479]

your video helps me so much every time when i install arch

[@manningermani]

I do everything as he does, and I get the same results until I reboot, where my machine only displays 'GRUB' and no matter what I press, nothing happens. Any idea? (I'm installing it in virtualbox as he does)

[@theash4361]

Personal recommendation: my pacstrap was going to take 10 hours, since the first server was giving me 7kb/s. Run "rankmirrors -v /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" to get find out how quick each mirror is, and then use "nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" to edit the mirror list. Cut and paste quick mirrors to the top of that list, so that pacstrap chooses them instead.

[@tduke2009]

I agree totally. Great tutorial! I'm an old school DOS system installer and a newbie at Linux. You not only provided with a on point Arch installation, you also went into enough detail for me to see the comparisons. Thx.

[@spudhead169]

All worked as describe here (with a few differences due to updated versions of stuff, but not that hard to work around) only problem is, after booting into Arch fully after the install, I have no netowkr at all. How do you get the ethernet working?

[@ashishsharma4888]

Thanks a lot. I found so many tutorials and videos but this one is the best one. Kudos for a simple approach. The only thing I found missing is that you didn't tell that I wont be able to connect to wifi after system boot. I now have a system that is not able to do anything extra as it needs internet and I do not know how to connect it. the wifi-menu command is also not available after system boot.

[@cominfo5981]

Are the commands : mkswap /dev/sda1 swapon /dev/sda1 necessary, or will Arch-Linux automatically use it as swap-Partition because of the type "Swap", which was set before ?

[@justsrad]

Just a suggestion. During the installation phase, it should have included the net-tools and dhclient package .

[@sciencewithsteve6832]

Aren't there still problems with cfdisk for ssds? I've seen some issues with alignment, I was wondering if anybody has any experience with these issues or if it's just a matter of using a base 16 multiple. Swap isn't like ram, swap is for paging and your swap needs are dependant on your usage and swap exists on your drive. I've heard people call it a bunch of different names, but in general it's virtual memory that exists on a drive and is much slower than ram. Determine your need based on how much memory your applications will need and how much ram you have. For example, one setup I have for scientific computing uses 32GB of swap, but for most purposes 2GB is ample.

[@josuegisber8150]

Well explain tutorial. This tutorial is understandable even for newbies, people who hasn't prior experience installing an OS. Well done!

[@_mm512_load_ps]

I need a little bit help. When im installing grub it wont let me. I have tried to install it to the harddrive and a external boot partition. Please help?

[@charliefarley9778]

Very helpful and informative video. Everything went by the book and installed just fine. Here's the problem though. I'm on a wired connection to my router and during the installation process, files are downloaded as required, but after reboot, I do not have an internet connection. I can get a connection by typing dhcpcd, but I want Arch to have network connection automatically after boot. How do I go about this?

[@linderman83]

Hello. Did the installation from arch wiki , also your installation video. In both methods i have no errors or complications during installation, but when i boot the new installed arch from grub: Booting 'Arch Linux' Loading Linux linux ... Loading initial ramdisk ... And it stays there for decades .... nothing happends. Just blak seen , this 3 lines and ...nothing .... Can you please help me or guide me a lil? P.S VirtualBox installation, Arch release: 2016.10.01

[@alexdanielsson3041]

Hi! I have a problem with the Wired network thing >> it worked before like a long time ago but now it stopped working any ideas on how to fix that? I know the Ethernet cable is working ... I have tried to turn it on but I still can't download anything and I can't ping Google.com either ... Please help?

[@maxmarsz]

What if I don't have the "bootable" option on my disk when running cfdisk? On other disk it is but not on my SSD one

[@dzunbox1904]

I had after pacstrap /mnt base Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

[@voiceoftreason1760]

i want to install arch linux next to windows 8 on my laptop. I want to use the 64 version and my laptop has UEFI, its brand new. Can i still follow all these steps? i read somewhere that installing linux on a UEFI system is different than installing on a BIOS system.

[@jeliazkozlatev3940]

4:18 isnt swap extended partition?

[@somesuch9083]

after reboot i just get " GRUB " and a blinking cursor in the top left. I'm not sure what I did wrong since I didn't get any errors in the process

[@PiyushkumarDongre]

Hi @goguda55 Tech: Please tell me after swapon /dev/sda1 . How to connect to internet, I am on wifi but it uses a proxy. Commands I have found doesnot work. Is there completely offline installer for arch. Thanks.

[@EmilePolka]

if you used a drive previously used on freebsd, you might have trouble install grub bootloader. (it complains about the ufs thing) just use the --force flag and that should work just fine. or you can just perform a low level format of the drive to get rid the error.

[@ct7842]

Amazing tutorial which was clear and easy to understand. I almost gave up on arch Linux.

[@Stead68]

I'm not a native english speaker but I understood everything! thanks for help :-) !

[@Ak0tnik]

For anybody struggling with the keyboard (if it is not an english keyboard) try the following: 1. Use localectl list-keymaps and find your keymap. Remember the code because you will need later. When you're done, click Ctrl+c to get out. 2. Then, use loadkeys code_you_found. Done.

[@jpao4566]

do Ineed an internet connection to follow along with this tutorial?

[@SpiritTracker7]

We need the pauses between thoughts. Editing it out causes overlap in thinking and thus often missing the first sentence or two of the next thought.

[@muhammadmohsen5061]

Awesome !! Would you please create a tutorial for installing XFCE after installing arch ?

[@archerbob6847]

'pacstrap /mnt base base-devel' didn't work for me initially, I had to nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and remove the # from in front of one of the mirrors... For some reason unknown to me they were ALL commented out. Use the Canada mirror as the US mirror is bugged. 'pacman -S grub-bios' doesn't work, I had to exit arch-chroot and use 'pacstrap /mnt grub-bios' then go back into arch-chroot to install with 'grub-install /dev/sda'

[@CurrentlyObsessively]

why is my pacstrap /mnt base-devel command giving me GPGME error: no data and also (fail to update invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)).... several errors...

[@eugeniolopes8134]

Hello folks ! On the question of assigning a language to the ArchLinux I must to set up the /usr/share/zoneinfo/COUNTRY/... and after I must create a symbolic link of that file inside of directry /etc/locale.gens BUT WHY ? Could someone answer me this question ?

[@pcartisan2721]

Did Not Work after grub installed. Couldn’t find directory. Please update. This at least got me started, where the Arch install.txt file seems to jump around. Maybe I’ll just use Antergos, or (gasp) Debian.

[@GabrielJLopez-du6lx]

ry adding --root-directory=/mnt to the grub-install command if you get the airootfs error

[@serpathius]

When I try type in "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Pacific /etc/localtime" it responds with "ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/localtime': File exists"

[@Samuel-zq6cl]

Same here!

[@naomijohnson2550]

delete the file then try that line again. Just worked for me.

[@its01]

Nice tutorial, thanks. You might want to add that dialog, iw and wpa_supplicant should be installed while installing the OS, otherwise you cannot install the desktop environment without an Internet connection. Another thing is, the package xorg-server-utils is removed from the repo, so all of the packages that it installs should be installed separately.

[@francovillarreal7266]

In my partitioning I have not the "boot flag" option, I'am using the last version, what can I do to flag it?

[@frank_g_slaughter]

When I click on boot OS I get the error saying "SMBus base address uninitalized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr"

[@yaboimaxwell9031]

I spent 8 HOURS for nothing! There is an "easy" way. This is the harder way. But, this was a good tutorial.

[@sauron1427]

For some reason my cfdisk interface is different and I can't find any information on it :( the flags column simply isn't there and I can't manage to make it bootable. Please help!

[@redexplosives2461]

Do cfdisk no device after

[@sauron1427]

RedExplosives you mean I should type "cfdisk" without any parameters? That's what I did, and it opens up the progeam, however it is a newer version (2.25 I believe) than the one in this video and it's missing the flags column. According to the help page I should be able to make something bootable by pressing "b", however when i do nothing happens.

[@redexplosives2461]

Yes

[@nicholasnarverud7776]

Go to the help menu by hovering over [Help] or something like that. Then notice all the flags have been moved to there. Also to make something swap, just use the new [Type] menu to select Linux swap

[@sauron1427]

***** When I open the help screen it just lists a series of commands, one of them is "b" to toggle the bootable flag, however when I go back and press b nothing happens. The other shortcuts work, all except b. I feel trolled :(

[@ritammukherjee]

did i miss the network setup part or did u not set network up?

[@ritammukherjee]

+Mr. Snow Show York'eso .|. a year later, i used this video again to install, heard it this time :)

[@TokyoChopSquad]

Tried reinstalling and it's giving me an error for genfstab /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab Any ideas how to fix this?

[@TheTurtleOfGods]

Run the "exit" command first. He does it so fast in the video it's easy to miss.

[@victoreremita7980]

if grub-install: error: cannot find efi then grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda

[@DanielDangerous]

You a king

[@sahiltamboli7371]

after pacman /mnt base base-devel it says..................error:failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch32.mirrors.symplysam.us .......but the download is still going on. is it okay?

[@kkkrk.l.6874]

Can anyone tell me how to boot in windows becuse if i dont have an usb in it wants me to put in bootable media.but when i do i get o the boot options like in the begining of he video and i really dont want o stall arch linux but just boot in win10. There is an option to boot in y os but it just doesnt detect it. Nothing in the BIOS lets me choose to boot in my os.

[@holyhelga]

you should be able to have virtualbox use the 64bit mode if you enable VT-x/AMD-v and nested Paging. Well thats only if you have a cpu that supports it but maybe you happen to have a really old cpu that dont or have it turned off in the bios/uefi.

[@XenoMobius]

When I try to install grub to "/dev/sda" I get "Error: Cannot find EFI directory". I've looked around but have been having a hard time figuring out what to do about it. I'd appreciate any help.

[@teleKRIGISK]

Try: grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda

[@brunopinto4553]

Rogers Cristo thank you ^^

[@LouRivellini]

Rogers Cristo Hey thanks, this worked for me, but is there any downside to this? Shouldnt I be doing a x86_64-EFI platform install if thats what my system is?

[@connorgearybmx]

The "pacstrap /mnt base base-devel" command did not work for me it returned error: Failed to install packages to new root. Can anyone help