can somebody pls walk me through all the options for archinstall

[proud onyx]

Thanks

[radiant aspen]

What do you have so far?

[pale spindle]

okay send a pic of the main menu first

and then u can go into each option and set it

[proud onyx]

Okay

[radiant aspen]

go to mirror region first i think

[proud onyx]

Ok

[radiant aspen]

order doesnt rlly matter but top to bottom makes sense to me

[proud onyx]

Choose my country

[radiant aspen]

yea

[proud onyx]

Okay did that thanks

[radiant aspen]

then drives i think, what do you see there?

[proud onyx]

My USB drive and my internal disk

[radiant aspen]

does it have any options saying make partition table or smth?

[proud onyx]

No although I haven't chosen a drive yet

But I don't need a partition

I want to replace the entire drive

[radiant aspen]

you'll still need to set a partition for booting and one for root, optionally one for swap

Select the internal drive if thats an option, idk what the screen looks like

[proud onyx]

I chose it and it spit me back to the main screen with it says 1 drive selected

[radiant aspen]

alright, go to the next section

[proud onyx]

It's called disk layout

[latent venture]

you can do an automated disk layout of you want

[radiant aspen]

yea the best effort one is prob best

[proud onyx]

Okay I choose that one

It's asking me to choose a file system

[radiant aspen]

ext4 is the standard, btrfs is also nice but if you dont know any, id suggest ext4

[proud onyx]

Great I choose that one

Do I need a endyption password

[shell olive]

if you want to

(you'll have to enter it every single time you boot tho)

[radiant aspen]

if you want the data to be encrypted. Usually not needed, but if your hd ever gets stolen they cant see whats on your disk if you use encryption

i dont use it personally

[proud onyx]

I dont need it next is bootloader

[radiant aspen]

grub should be fine

[shell olive]

there you have the standard, and systemd-boot

[proud onyx]

Great

Next is swap

[radiant aspen]

how much ram do you have?

[proud onyx]

4gb

[latent venture]

do swap

[radiant aspen]

yea def use swap

[latent venture]

oh yeah definitely with 4gb

[proud onyx]

It's a old laptop

[shell olive]

yeah with 4gb you can't do much without swap on these years

[proud onyx]

Okay next is hostname

[shell olive]

just use whatever you want there

[radiant aspen]

swap is space on your disk reserved for when ram overflows, so your machine doesnt crash

[proud onyx]

Is it just like username

[shell olive]

yes

but for the pc

[latent venture]

it's basically the name of your pc

[radiant aspen]

i call mine gorb lol

[proud onyx]

Okay root password

[radiant aspen]

Secure pass, make sure you remember it

if someone knows root's pass, they can do anything on the computer

[proud onyx]

Kk

Done

[latent venture]

now onto a user account

[proud onyx]

User account

[radiant aspen]

next is user i think, usually it's username is your first name and pass can be whatever you want

[proud onyx]

Is it okay to use the same pass as the root

[latent venture]

yeah

technically less secure but eh

[radiant aspen]

it's fine as long as you dont give it out to people you dont trust

[proud onyx]

I tried my name and it said it is invalid

Is there rules

[latent venture]

lowercase (I think)

no spaces and stuff like that

[proud onyx]

Oh okay

Should I be a superuser

[latent venture]

yes

[radiant aspen]

yeah

[latent venture]

that just lets you use sudo

[proud onyx]

Oh okay

[radiant aspen]

and configure wifi and inputs i think

[proud onyx]

Okay next is profile

[radiant aspen]

what's in there?

[latent venture]

desktop environment basically

do you know what you want to use?

[radiant aspen]

oh yeah. id recommend kde or gnome

[proud onyx]

Yeah I want kde

Plasma

[latent venture]

desktop -> plasma

[proud onyx]

It says kde that's fine right

[latent venture]

yes

[radiant aspen]

plasma is often just called kde

[proud onyx]

It says I need a graphics driver

[radiant aspen]

what gpu do you have?

[proud onyx]

Integrated Intel

[radiant aspen]

select intel then

if thats a thing

[proud onyx]

Done

Next is audio

[latent venture]

I would do pipewire

[radiant aspen]

pulseaudio i think, thats what i use

[latent venture]

as it's newer

[radiant aspen]

probably right

[proud onyx]

Next is kernals

[radiant aspen]

default prob

[latent venture]

just leave it with linux

[proud onyx]

K

Addination packages

I want firefox

[radiant aspen]

you dont need anything here, but basically anything you want to pacman -S later

[latent venture]

do firefox then

but it doesn't really matter

[proud onyx]

Yeah I'm familiar with pacman as I coming from Manjaro

[radiant aspen]

id just install after you boot up again tbh

[proud onyx]

Timezones

I got this

Automatic time sync

[radiant aspen]

yeah select that

[proud onyx]

Okay it's set to true next is optional repositories

[latent venture]

you'll probably want multilib

[radiant aspen]

dont need anything there

[latent venture]

but archinstall might have issues with it

so I wouldn't do nothing for now

[radiant aspen]

i think you can do that in pacman's config file

[proud onyx]

Ok leave it blank

[radiant aspen]

ye

[proud onyx]

Ok so now It says save config install or abort

[radiant aspen]

install

that should start the process, hopefully nothing errors but you should be good

[proud onyx]

Okay it's all happening

[radiant aspen]

might take a few mins

[proud onyx]

Kk

How much space does it take up

Asking because I only have 128gb

[radiant aspen]

not much, probably a few gigs

[proud onyx]

Kk

Thank you both for all your help

Its working good

[latent venture]

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