Install Arch Linux The Easy Way With The Official Install Script

[@DistroTube]

Guys, beware! The 'archinstall' script has a security flaw. Don't share the script publicly or you will get out'ed like I did: i.imgur.com/emWUWSi.png 😜 🐧

[@ino1192]

bruh

[@hsmhsm327]

maybe the desktop "shortcuts" or scripts are not declared as executable (chmod them with a+x or somthing) LXQt is gaining some community points TBH am impressed with their work, they recompiled a lot of tools with Qt 5.15 (LTS)

[@agustinranieri]

Finally! We discovered your strong and complicated password haha

[@edbeckerich3737]

But... DT, we always knew what your VM password was

[@zajlord2930]

lmao

[@ArniesTech]

Although I can easily install Arch in the CLI, this script is a breeze to operate and can bring Arch a whole pack of new users. Best of both worlds one could say. It feels like a "real" installer and still has this minimalist feel to it.

[@alt2458]

What a change for Arch Linux. So much simpler to install and less intimidating.

[@ArniesTech]

Definitely a win for Arch. They can try to act like tey wanna isolate themselves from people who are afraid of the CLI etc as long as they want. But this script will grant them a whole bunch of new users.

[@coronaklledmebot4856]

Although, I prefer manual Installing. It makes more sense to me, and simpler too.

[@ChristopherGray00]

@@coronaklledmebot4856 it is not simpler at all to install arch manually.

[@efficientgaming4603]

@@animepussy8356 depends on the hardware, if you've got a new laptop with newest specs you need to wait like a year for the mobile components get integrated into linux and you'll be running in circles trying to setup the display etc.

[@martinwin11b21H2]

@@ChristopherGray00 its simple

[@АртёмБелоусов-з2и]

I use manually installed Arch by the way

[@omar.eskandar]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@amekudzilab]

The new anthem🤣

[@Lin_The_Cat_]

Lmfao now we're just splitting hairs. Theres bound to be someone who touts that unironically.

[@invasion8318]

@Redorka fr this is impossible to do, I’m using everything including A.I (chat gpt) and installing it is literally impossible lol

[@MasterMooper]

​@@invasion8318dt's tutorial makes it pretty easy

[@yaminshihab723]

An excellent way to get rid of the elitists!

[@godfather7339]

Wherever there are r*tards, there will be elitists. Maybe sometimes try to type with both hands so I don't feel that smart?

[@grimslade0]

It's a start. But the real normie filter is Debian's 90s looking, ghost town, hosted in an abandoned shack of a website. It's cruel, and hilarious.

[@quitting_the_internet]

just gotta use gentoo or maybe artix untill we get clapped with normies.

[@gizzmoguy.]

@@quitting_the_internet 😆

[@RealMephres]

@@quitting_the_internet Elitists are rather annoying, to be honest. Better be welcoming for newcomers to the scene and let them breathe and ask questions as you take them for granted. It's much better in the long run as it would lead to a better computing experience for everyone.

[@DonaldWyman]

On bare metal the bootloader it gives you a choice between grub and systemd boot. also, if you have a bigger drive it will ask if you want to separate your /home partition on the "wipe and make the best selection" section.

[@cgme7076]

It’s about time they made this! This is so nice to have. Normally, I like partitioning and setting everything up on my own. Yet, I’m configuring a server and don’t want anything to be misconfigured. So I’m fine with this script.

[@Steerable6827]

2:52 Press / to search 8:15 leaving blank installs ALL open source drivers, you can just select VM drivers only Vim & Nano are Auto-Installed.

[@ornessarhithfaeron3576]

vim and nano are bloat :P

[@nevoyu]

I would've expected nano, but kinda suprised to see vim

[@Steerable6827]

@@ornessarhithfaeron3576 commenting on youtube is bloat

[@eliasgill2453]

@@ornessarhithfaeron3576 use ed instead

[@kjn5991]

Old School install certainly teaches about computers / Operating Systems and is recommended for anyone who wants to tinker a bit more and learn. But this install script is a gift from Arch gods, no need for the hassle and lowers the entry point for new users.

[@isaiahj4450]

Kinda. It’s more just copy / pasting commands, looking at the wiki when something goes wrong and praying your system will reboot.

[@bolski6125]

Wow! This brings me back to the old days of Linux (SLS, Slackware, etc). I remember downloading the OG Linux floppy disk images off of Usenet or FTP sites at my college campus back in 1991/1992 and then taking those home to install Linux on my 80286 machine. The joy and feeling of accomplishment when I actually got a Linux/UNIX login and compiling my computer science C projects on my home PC instead of the campus' UNIX machine was awesome. Doing Arch linux this way isn't quite the same (no 3.5" floppy swapping) but it's darned close to what it was like back then. Of course also, no package systems, it was all on floppy and you didn't have to be connected to the internet (dial-up back then for me). Great video! Thanks!

[@DigitalLiquid]

I tried installing Arch in 2016 with little to knowledge about Linux. Just recently I decided to get back into it so I installed Manjaro. I’ll probably install Arch again now that it’s easier and know way more.

[@kennystrawnmusic]

Just a heads-up: this script is now available not only on mainline Arch but also on SystemRescueCD which is not only Arch-based but also has a graphical (Xfce) live environment, while also still keeping Arch repositories and not using anyone else’s.

[@n4botz]

Arch was my first Linux-based distro, where I really feel good. My first Arch install was a little nightmare, because it was just time-wasting. Especially for someone like me who has worked mostly with Windows for more than two decades. I don't need a GUI, but if you want to install Arch on different machines, this build-in script is a huge game changer, in my opinion! I've been using EndervourOS for a while, to install quick a fresh copy of Arch. This script is a big change and helps newbies too. Last but not least: Thanks Arch, I really fell in love with you!

[@Qu4dM0nk3y]

This is the 2nd video I've seen where the demo is done on a virtual machine. I wish someone would do the walkthrough on an actual laptop/pc as there are different options that come up when you go through it.

[@marioschroers7318]

I used to think the same, but honestly, it's mostly a practical issue. You can't really record the screen while installing, and you don't really want to watch a 30-minutes video of an actual computer screen. Unless you ssh into a testing machine or something. DT often uses KVM, which is pretty close to performance and prerequisites of actual hardware.

[@airbossone]

You can watch this kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJjIpIilnNJ7m8U he made it on a laptop.

[@PhayzinOut]

Why can't you do it yourself if that's what you want?

[@FirstLast-cy8og]

How willl you record it 😂

[@jw_023]

You can always back up your data and learn through trial and error. Besides, in my experience, the only difference between KVM and a live install is which disk you choose to install everything to.

[@bigmikeobama5314]

especially for an arch machine i love btrfs. it has saved me several times already and i havent even used it a year yet lol. so convenient.

[@waltz9230]

How has it saved you? I’m kinda indecisive about btrfs just because I’ve never used it yet so it’d be cool to hear how it’s worked for you so far.

[@gassug2]

second the guy above. i use ext4 but i hear btrfs is pretty good. i've been using arch for over a year though and haven't had a situation where i'd need to restore from backup

[@BeetleB]

Very easy to follow for quick installs. You did miss configuring the network btw, so for anyone installing this on a VM, remember to configure the network to “Use Network Manager”

[@marsmonster3947]

I just upgraded mobo and processor and had to reinstall arch. I decided to try this guided install. It hung up so many times for minutes at a time. It worked, but it took about as long as manually installing

[@damikki]

Hey DT, just wanted to say thank you for all of these awesome videos, I really love your channel content and your attitude towards freedom and free software. I especially love your doom emacs content. Anyway thank you :)

[@grenvillephillips6998]

I was amazed how well the script worked, and which offered a quick fix to a broken system, which wouldn't update.

[@arunkumarbalakrishnan8423]

Thank you! I installed Arch on my personal laptop with this. I tried with the CLI a few months ago and although I did everything correctly, I kept getting some weird error that didn't let me boot after installation. Now this works!

[@jessienicolina7243]

After trying all the other video's this was the only one that worked for me. thanks bud.

[@miguelzurita3216]

This will save me tons of time when I decide to install Arch on my laptop or PC.

[@oldlonecoder5843]

Hi DT, thank you for your warning! Thank you for this video. Just installed Archlinux using the installer. Easier than any other graphical installer I would say. JSON format saved file: Excellent! ( excepted for the exposed in plain sight auth data... lol)

[@paulfragemann3333]

The saving on /home/dt didn't work, since the script does *nothing* to the system untill you tell it to install, so you can always recheck your config to avoid system breakage. So to save that permenantly, you would have to store it on a flash drive, or put it in the ramfs of the install medium and manually upload it to somewhere.

[@marioschroers7318]

I'm still trying to write a Gentoo install script 😀 I've also had in mind trying to write an Arch install script for my personal learning and fun! 😀 Recently, I realized Linux, and specifically the terminal, offers excellent automation opportunities for many things. Python is very helpful for automation as well. Love that language.

[@gogogogogogogogogogog9]

give us the link when the gentoo script is ready

[@just__khang]

The entire NixOS is a script that you can install from. Take the Nix pill.

[@skeetplayz]

@@just__khang but gentoo is cooler

[@just__khang]

@@skeetplayz you can compile your kernel and all of your programs with flags, if you prefer that. It is harder to break as well because if it breaks, it takes a reboot to revert all of the changes. And on that, it also takes a reboot to change the whole system configuration. And above all, you only need one single file to control over your entire system and port it to another bare metal, maybe two if you want home management.

[@jw_023]

I wrote a personal arch install script a while back. There’s no better way to learn than by doing! Also, would love to see that gentoo script if you get it working!

[@RyanBragg84]

Thank you. I wanted to install Arch and this video walked me through it

[@raxonferrari7281]

I cant believe I installed Arch linux with a 3070 rtx on a 42" oled and it actually runs 4k@120hz. Cant thank you enough man def got my sub

[@RaphaelSwinkels]

Finally it worked.., i just needed some practice, first I installed the manual way (with a helping video streaming on my 📱. but that guy encrypted everything and I didn't wanna do that. So backed out for a moment, (have a second pc so that was no problem) now today I tried Novara but it gave a errorcode during install so I took the arch_usb and tried again.. only thing I changed was the LVM option with the disk partitioning... Yes it works! ☺️

[@unclefester9113]

I am pleased that they have added a install system inside the ISO disk.

[@RobtStahl]

The reason you couldn't save your config to /home/dt/ is because at that point, that dir didn't exist. It hadn't formatted your drive yet. It looks like you have to save it to the installation media, then transfer it after the install finishes providing the script doesn't unmount your new partitions on exit.

[@Jaroshevskii]

It's nice to see Arch becoming more newbie friendly.

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Very interesting install script... I'm actually running the Arch-based distro known as RebornOS (literally Arch, but with some customizations), and I'm tempted to start my system over with this "archinstall" method... I have my entire install here dd'd to an img on one of my HDDs, so if I wanted to restore my installation I could, or if I wanted to grab a file or three from the image I could... I am kind of having issues with my RebornOS install I have running here, but they're minor... I"m sure I could fix them or get help fixing them, but this install script is interesting nonetheless.. Thanks for this video DT! Very interesting.

[@andrewgrasman8951]

I just used it yesterday, it still has some problems atm pipewire comes broken, though it's not to bad to fix, also gpg can't receive keys which I haven't figured out yet. if using uefi systemd-boot is default and grub is the only option

[@JonathanSteadman2003]

I love Arch Linux. :)

[@dougclark8219]

Just for laughs, I wanted to try installing Arch in a VM, just like you did, and I'm really glad you put this video out. Thanks!

[@linuxninja]

I would recommend not only reading the screens, but read them out loud instead of glossing over them and ignoring the helpful self-documenting script. This might be more helpful to the viewer. Did you demo the "/ Search" feature instead of scrolling for days?

[@hmooz999]

Nothing beats the experience of installing arch from scratch. Tho an install script is also welcomed

[@fatboy3033]

Unfortunately it does not install on my asus laptop. I tried to install a lot of times, with all available configs (GRUB aor systemd-boot; linux, linux-lts), but I always receive a black screen with a blinking cursor after reboot 😭

[@0woled]

Dt you content is always well appreciated !

[@KingKrouch]

The archinstall script comes in very handy. I’ve been using it when I test Arch for whatever reason. The downside is that some of the options (like the KDE Desktop) come with bloat apps, but lack important ones (like packagekit-qt5 which is required to use Discover). I still think it’s a far better option than Manjaro. Personally, I prefer using Fedora KDE, but Arch would be a close second.

[@newolku]

Sorry of this is a stupid question. Why is it better than Manjaro?

[@mateiul1]

@@newolku manjaro holds back packages for 2 WEEKS because "security" reasons , also vanilla arch is less bloated

[@newolku]

I asked why is it better than Manjaro.

[@KingKrouch]

@@newolku Arch doesn't have the nonsense or bloat that Manjaro does. Easy. That, and there's less quality control over package releases, at one point, there was an update that was pushed which DDOS'd the AUR repositories.

[@ArniesTech]

well an automation program cannot do it ALL otherwise we land at the CLI install again. Luckily none of that is engraved in stone. You can uninstall the "bloat" later.

[@SomeOne-rh5so]

Great job! For my level at least could be useful, it's strange that even firefox not included. I'll also try in VM.

[@ArniesTech]

Well THATs still true Arch there. They wont force a browser on you. But they kindly mention it in that message.

[@ztgasdf]

Woah, this looks _way_ different to what I used just a month ago. Did they update it?

[@DistroTube]

Yep, had a big update recently.

[@ztgasdf]

@@DistroTube Neat-o. I'll go look at it, I made a video myself using the previous script.

[@voiceoftreason1760]

I don't understand why you boot it in legacy bios mode. I'd assume most people want to use arch linux bare metal with uefi

[@brianschuetz2614]

"I've always argued that the standard command line installation of Arch Linux is easy and anyone can do it" Well, it's easy when everything goes right. I was unsuccessful at installing Arch Linux on a VM on my first attempt. I'm not afraid of the CLI and I'm not a novice with computers. I have experimented a little with Linux in the past, but I've only recently committed to it (I'm using Manjaro on my main system and my laptop has Pop!OS. Goodbye Microsoft). I tried following a video and the Installation Guide on ArchWiki. I kept running into issues. But I'm not complaining, because I learned a few things, and that was my main goal: to learn more about Linux. Of course, that was without the install script presented here. When I used the install script it was easy and I had no problems. I have a VM and a functioning Arch Linux installed. Now I want to go back and try it again without the script. I thank you for producing videos about Linux. It was one of the things that influenced me to take the leap from Microsoft to Linux and open source software.

[@TrowGundam]

GRUB is the only option because you are using legacy boot. On a UEFI system it defaults to systemd-boot, with the option to select GRUB instead. Also it is trying to save the configurations to the Live Environment filesystem. I feel an option to copy it to your installation post-install would be a good thing to add. That said, the version in the ISO has some bugs in the saving and/or loading of configurations. Mainly it doesn't really deal with the Disk Layouts properly. It'll pull all your other options in, so its sorta useful, since you only need to re-enter the Disks and Disk Layout settings. There is also a bug where if you enable multilib, it enables both multilib and multilib-testing. Annoying but easy enough to fix, as long as you remember to do so before installing anything from it, lol.

[@talkshowhost85]

man i always enjoy your videos, you make Linux less scary :)

[@johnphamlore8073]

Any install video after rebooting should prove the network is functional to the Internet so that one can download and install further packages. Just last week on Reddit in the archlinux sub, there was a question on how to get networking set up from just what is installed from the iso. I, who am not even a regular Arch Linux user, was the only one who could both read the documentation and provide advice to start getting to know systemd, in particular, systemd-networkd.

[@takennmc]

I was curious what icon and cursor theme you using cause I like the icons that shown in pcmanfm and was curious on them.

[@Steve37643]

I'm new to linux. Would love to switch to arch. Not sure how to do that without losing all the stuff I have on manjaro. Any tips for changing? Or any videos you have already done on the subject?

[@LeRoiAdibou]

Hi, I have a question. About 9 months ago, I bought a laptop for school and installed my first Linux distro on it (something like ubuntu), I tried few distros like elementary os, kubuntu and pop os, but each time I have had issues with the behavior of leaving suspend mode (my touchpad loses gestures, touchpad parameters are reset (on kubuntu), at the beginning I wasn't even able to leave suspend...). So I was wondering if something like arch linux could possibly helps me with my issues ? I'm currently just willing to enjoy Linux on my laptop as a beginner, but all theses issues are just so painful... Thanks for your answer, love your videos

[@gusgreen3104]

Cinnamon on Arch is coming for me now. Big thanks.

[@error-4518]

Installing Arch was pretty hard for the first time with no linux experience + finnish keyboard layout.

[@hermespymander9167]

W98 feelings but i still advise to try it at least once for anyone..its a great experience followed by Gentoo :D

[@error-4518]

@@hermespymander9167 Yea, I am currently installing and setting up Arch in vm, my goal is to get it to a point where I like and feel comfortable in it and then install it actually on my system. It is not hard with good instructions, though I am not sure if I should go with KDE plasma (I like the look and fee of it) or try to wrap my head around some window manager.

[@fahmidurarnob2470]

Please make noob to poweruser video for arch 🙂 It'll help beginner's like me🙂

[@meowmrrpnyanya]

can it provide as much customitazion as the normal way of installing?

[@akiraarchangel2911]

Not at all

[@DistroTube]

Absolutely not. The menu-based installer offers common options for things, not every option available though.

[@Steerable6827]

Unless the application was 1TB large, then no, it can never provide as much customization

[@RihoC]

Quick question, i like to test different distros on my external SSD In Calamares i can choose where to install bootloader but in here i cant see that opinon? And i have 3 drives which bootloader i wouldnt like to mess up....

[@sarahross7515]

I tried to use this on the virtualbox. But the iso didn't boot up. I thought the iso was broken, but it was not the case. For some reason, VirtualBox decided not to work. It was so weird.

[@skelebro9999]

try VMware

[@fy_poolday]

disable 3d acceleration

[@sarahross7515]

@@fy_poolday yo wtf, it worked! how?

[@skelebro9999]

@@sarahross7515 coz the 3d acceleration is trying to find 3d stuff maybe but the arch iso doesn't have anything 3d

[@sarahross7515]

@@skelebro9999 I mean I don't think so because I tried it using an older version before and it had worked. After the update, everything got broken.

[@neilsmith9220]

A terrific video. Thank you very much !!!

[@cubdukat]

I notice that there doesn't seem to be any UEFI entries. Is Arch compatible? I have a motherboard that's got Secure Boot permanently enabled, but the implementation is so buggy that I can't boot from a thumb drive to be able to install any kind of Linux. It took me three weeks to get it to install Ubuntu 20.04.3. I wanted to replace it with Arch since I managed to boot that up with no problems, but I'm still unsure of myself and my abilities. I still have to follow along with instructions when doing it in Virtualbox; I don't dare try it on my actual system. Maybe after I do a clean install of Win11 and have nothing to lose...

[@mgnishibuya1]

I'm very confused. I just downloaded an iso right now and trying to install with bootable USB. I can't see like that. I mean the script is not included I thought.

[@reapertasin4848]

After watching 23 video find the real video. Thanks for you nice explanation

[@PouyaAtaei]

minute @14.47, you can't choose /home/dt, because neither the disk is partitioned yet, nor the file system added, nor it is mounted. All you have at that point I think is the removable media.

[@samismydog]

Honestly wonderful feature for me trying to install it quickly.

[@Leo-bh8mc]

Hi Derek, I'm installing Arch-linux by. of your previous tutorial it is very good but I have a problem with installing the st-distrotube packages and the distrotube dmenu - the database does not exist, so you can tell me something. Thank you in advance Leo Poland Warsaw.

[@nvfpv]

I did this but chose the Awesome desktop version - it just leads me to a command line???? Where is the GUI? Do I have to restart everything? 😭😭

[@arandomfox999]

I chose KDE for fun to see how it has changed, and it does install vim by default along with a couple of other packages like openSSH etc.

[@ArniesTech]

probably because vim is already part of that pre-packed KDE bundle.

[@distant6606]

18:10 i think they were greyed out because u didnt check the checkbox that said set gtk theme

[@fritzbratwurst136]

The Script doesn't work. Crashes immediately on my Computer.

[@sillyness3456]

So, if I want to look cool, I need to install Gentoo?

[@megatronskneecap]

This guy *IS* god. Thank you SO much.

[@MrKnockout66]

So I used this installer and used i3 gaps. When I reboot I get a black screen with my network information and time in the bottom right and a 1 in a blue square in the bottom left. Im completely lost

[@escrow9004]

@Paul the Human Aeroplane do you know how to fix i3 install via archinstall? the latest ISO doesn't have latest archinstall version, and the latest ISO has a typo with i3 installation, so it doesn't get installed properly and the installation overall fails.

[@escrow9004]

@Paul the Human Aeroplane Gotcha. Thank you for this!

[@cbbcbb6803]

Can Gambas be used as a Linux scripting language for Arch Linux?

[@cliftonfestusmalvea9777]

i got an error could not install grub

[@tonyravindran]

I just installed Arch in Virtual Box following this video. I am unable to access the network from Arch. NAT is enabled

[@HikaruAkitsuki]

At last I made a perfect installation on my Arch Linux on my VMWare Pro. There is kinda learning curve because I used to Ubuntu base. But I feel safer to use Arch. Hope I made it to install it in baremetal to gain maximum performance.

[@donaldwilliams6821]

This script has come a long way It's even better now BUT they still haven't fixed the issue where you tell it to enable BTRFS compression but it doesn't add the entries to /etc/fstab Even hyprland it available now. thanks for this

[@FAILG0AT]

Hey dt i put arch-arm on a raspberrypi yesterday and a little bit back you talked about using a pinebook, which is also arm. What are the limitations of arm vs the 86_64 in regards to arch? Will the aur still work normally? What should i expect? Other non dt answers are also welcome.

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

Manjaro user here, aur works when you search for raspberry packages but there are not many be aware!

[@FAILG0AT]

@@RafaCoringaProducoes thanks for the heads up, my fav part about arch is the aur so if there are only a few packages should i go with an alternative like opensusa, fedora or popos? Or perhaps they will have similar problems with arm packages?

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

@@FAILG0AT desktop usage for pi is via raspberry pi os arm32 because ubuntu and manjaro are arm64, great systems but without many programs as much avaiable on pi apps comunity store 32 bits. In 2021 youtubers showed opensuse fedora and windows on pi, and they ve seen to me as works in progress! There are alternatives like fyde os (chromeOS based not sure if open source). I guess trying archintall could not hurt since u might get a light system with i3wm or sway and found the programs you need.

[@N0zer0]

17:50 Firefox is a gtk application. You have to tick the box for Set GTK themes to change GTK Style.

[@Hyperboid]

No, it's not. The entire UI is made using HTML+CSS+JS.

[@N0zer0]

@@Hyperboid it's not about the UI. gtk3 is one of the dependencies.

[@pfv3462]

thanks for trying this installation with the script again, this time I managed it too, last time I couldn't get the installation done! thanks

[@KyzerSusie]

I've given it THREE more tries, the last time picking the exact same installation choices in this video with the exception of the desktop (I chose cinnamon), and it still won't install. On reboot I selected Boot Installed OS and I get a black screen with Booting... and it goes no further. One difference I noted was at the end of the installation process I get the prompt 1root@archiso and not root@archiso, though I'm not sure that makes any difference. I keep plugging away at this, but even with the archinstall this is a very frustrating, and I don't consider myself a beginner when it comes to Linux.

[@iampraneetverma]

I have installed arch linux with this archinstall last night, and looks like the user created is not in the sudoers file, this script is missing something, now i have to figure how to add my home user to sudoers file

[@RUTM2]

Thanks for all you do

[@edupazz]

Hey, dt, what VM do you use?

[@nicklesseos]

If the disk format breaks because of lsblk remove the flash drive boot disk, it copied the whole installation medium to your ram when you first plug it in. It will not error out anymore

[@q2yogurt]

I just tried the script myself using the 2022.05.01 iso, can't set any password as if the inputs aren't recognized. edit: rebooting fixed the issue, simply re-running the script doesn't. I have also noticed this script installs vim by default so there's no need to specify it ;)

[@nmac101]

Hey, it says it's missing the keyring. Please help, i cant wait to install arch

[@areftv9705]

No ethernet icon on bottom panel. What should I do?

[@benzeglam]

Just wandering how much memory vanilla arch with lxqt uses on start up?

[@portaltotheweekend_189]

do you have to have the may iso downloaded to use this script?

[@FelixNielsen]

This is brilliant

[@gamerking64]

In my testing, selecting the multilib repo also enables multilib-testing repo which is weird!!!

[@whydoweexist5213]

How do you set up the network just after the install?

[@andreasbaumann6943]

Was released on 1st of April 2021, maybe that's why nobody took it seriously? ;-) But it is a thing (a nice one). I recently also added it to the Archlinux32 ISO..

[@Phynellius]

I tried it back when it was an early release and had similar issues with it failing partway through. I needed some brushing up on running commands anyway, been away from Linux for a while. Maybe next time I setup Arch I'll try it out

[@betablockrr]

Could you show us how to use the saved configuration via json files. I have mine on a USB but no idea how to use them

[@taidee]

Well DT, if you had configured Virt Manager for EFI boot, then it would give you extra options on for booting up and it uses systemd boot as default. You also missed configuring Network, but I think the mistakes were caused by the fact that you were talking and this script needs absolute focus. Otherwise this script is really good and very fast.

[@jordanarmeno8331]

Does this work if i want to install to a usb ?

[@nmrood8726]

why is it reading only 19gb of the ssd ? please help

[@theperson7718]

Hey DT. love watching your videos. There very helpful and informative. I however have a question and maybe a problem but not sure on the problem part just yet. I looked through your videos to see if you touched on this at all and couldn't find anything that stood out to me so that's the nature of this question and if you or anyone in the comments might know the answer. So the question is when I open up CPU-X and go to graphics to see what my amdgpu driver is it says Mesa 22.1.6 and when I go on AMD's website to look at the latest release it says 22.20. So I'm running basic Arch kde plasma 5.25.4 version and I was under the impression that arch is supposed to be a bleeding edge distro yet it seams like there a few.......well alot of releases behind when it comes to the drivers for my card. BTW my card it the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT OC 4GB if that helps any. Any help here would be awesome as I'm trying to play The Surge 2 and it crashes everytime I get to the character creation screen. I know this isn't a linux thing as I have 243 hours logged but that was when I had my NVIDIA GTX 970 and before Linux killed support for older cards. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me out to either solve this or just explain the driver release cycle from arch and when I might see a newer driver. Thanks and have a nice day,/night. morning/afternoon/evening. 😃

[@Booruvcheek]

I dunno.. when you set up Arch manually, you can't avoid knowing how little (or how much) is actually installed, how the drive is partitioned, the config files you create, edit, etc.. And that's a part of the experience. I wish archinstall script was more verbose about what it is doing. Or maybe I missed it as it scrolled past my eyes too fast / was cut in editing. Perhaps there's an installation log describing every detail you can read after the install? I'm about to install Arch on my new laptop, but I guess I'll do it the old way. I haven't done it in a while, so maybe I just want to experience the process again :)

[@theodorealenas3171]

What's important for me is, eventually you'll stumble upon problems. If you've stumbled upon them this early on it's better. It's both a testament and an introduction to controlling a system.

[@Booruvcheek]

@@theodorealenas3171 That's right, and knowing exactly what you have installed / configured is a vital stepping stone in your troubleshooting process.

[@just__khang]

Lies. When you come to arch and install it, chances are you know absolutely nothing about it and all you do is copypasting some scripts online. It is a lot for you to assume that anyone installing arch, at least for the first or the second time, is reading wiki page full of jargons and spending the next few days just getting things up and run. Unless you have nothing to do and you are just installing linux for some weird social circle cred then go on.

[@theodorealenas3171]

@@just__khang to me copy pasting commands essentially doesn't work. Eventually you'll reach a dead end and either quit or read a bit. The Arch wiki is a bare minimum. It's not enough as is even. You won't get Arch in the end 1/3 times, with just the Arch wiki

[@Booruvcheek]

@@just__khang ​ @Minh Khang Lê Hàn 1) A lie is a deliberate distortion of truth. Sir or madam, are you telling me I'm deliberately misleading people? I suggest you apologize. 2) Your assumption about "chances are you know absolutely nothing about it" are simply incorrect. Arch is not a distro for first time Linux users, unless they heave strong will, are determined and specifically want to dive in at the deep end. Arch is famous for its DIY philosophy, which implies having to learn how things are set up. Reading Arch Wiki is absolutely essential in this regard, and if the user scoffs at it, saying its full of jargon, then why bother installing Arch at all? There are distributions far friendlier to people who don't want to learn about Linux (although in the end, they WILL have to learn, or go back to Windows or Mac).

[@nevoyu]

DT you didn't config a network manager during install, so your VM actually doesn't have a network connection.

[@DistroTube]

I'm aware. The installer is a bit weird in that it when you enter a sub-menu and escape out it always automatically moves you to the next entry. Which is not the expected behavior. I caught myself almost skipping several steps on this video because of that. In the end, I missed the network setup because of this behavior. But I wasn't going back and re-recording this video because of such a minor thing. These videos take way to long too record/edit. Besides, the 'archinstall' devs should probably know about this since I'm probably not the only one skipping installation steps accidentally.