arch installation solved

[delicate galleon]

@pearl garden here?

[pearl garden]

that's right.

[delicate galleon]

What to do

[pearl garden]

Now you've got to be patient with people answering because it's not gonna be instant, and I can't really help much now.

[delicate galleon]

Sure

I've to wait here 😢

[pearl garden]

anyways, I also see on your photo that your pacstrap failed

[delicate galleon]

Ye ig

[pearl garden]

are you sure you have internet connection on the host machine for now?

[delicate galleon]

I'm

[pearl garden]

is it a laptop or a desktop computer? do you have the Ethernet cable plugged in or not?

[delicate galleon]

It's plugged and laptop

I pinged Google.comi

.com

It seems fine tbf

[pearl garden]

64 bites every second?

[oak coral]

Are you following the installation guide?

.aw Installation guide

[neat bridge]

Arch Wiki: Installation guide

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

[pearl garden]

are you sure you are using the newest install media of Arch? The one from November doesn't work anymore.

[delicate galleon]

Its newest I got from arch site

[pearl garden]

Download the latest one from archlinux.org, don't download from any other website

[pearl garden]

start over and follow the Arch guide

[delicate galleon]

Oki thanks

[iron notch]

uwufetch received a thank you cookie!

[pearl garden]

you're welcome

[oak coral]

Follow this and read carefully

Don't just copy paste

[delicate galleon]

Sure

[oak coral]

If you get stuck on a step I will help

[delicate galleon]

Tysm

[pearl garden]

it's normal for first time Arch users

I didn't even pay that much attention to the commands when I was installing it for the first time

[oak coral]

Yeah that's why I'm telling them to read carefully :)

[pearl garden]

I know, I know

It took me a few installs and a while to know what each command does and what to do

now I just take about an hour or two to get my Arch system up and running, if you're really interested in it, learning Linux stuff is easy and fun

[delicate galleon]

@oak coral when I pinged it showed pining does that mean my network is working?

[pearl garden]

pining?

what?

you mean just a PING line?

[delicate galleon]

Yes

[pearl garden]

it means it ain't working

[pearl garden]

if you have an android phone, the easiest way to have internet during the installation is to plug your phone to a USB port and use USB tethering, it will tether your WiFi

[pearl garden]

oh it's working

[delicate galleon]

Thanks

[pearl garden]

you said only that first PING line, and not the 64 bytes

[delicate galleon]

Sorry

[pearl garden]

when it repeatedly comes with 64 bytes from archlinux.org, it means that it's working

[pearl garden]

first create a new GPT partition (if your system supports EFI)

[delicate galleon]

Legacy

[pearl garden]

press o then

and enter

and then create new partitions with n and change the type of one of them (I'll tell you later when you get progress there)

[oak coral]

do fdisk /dev/sda

[delicate galleon]

I'm done here also

Instead of swap I wanna use zram so is it ighty?

[oak coral]

Never used it/don't know how to set it up so you're on your own with that sorry

@ me if you get stuck on anything else

[alpine seal]

looks like you need a swap partition and then run some script after installing arch

[delicate galleon]

How to exit from vim

[oak coral]

If you want to save :wq

If not just :q

I'd use nano instead

[delicate galleon]

Sure

[delicate galleon]

I forgot my password

😢😢😢

[astral otter]

Can you actually post the pacstrap command you used as well as information of what is mounted?

It looks from the first picture that you’ve likely mounted the wrong partition to /mnt

[delicate galleon]

It's finally donemy

[delicate galleon]

I forgot password

[astral otter]

Chroot, passwd, passwd <user>

This you’ve just done the install…surely you know the passwd command?

[delicate galleon]

Where to run cheoot

Chroot

[astral otter]

ISO, mount root, arch-chroot

Did you not just install arch??

[delicate galleon]

Idk to mount so u gotta help me ig

Nvm

Ik to mount

But idk 2nd step

[astral otter]

.aw installation_guide

[neat bridge]

Arch Wiki: Installation guide

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

[delicate galleon]

I can mount

But 2nd step is jard

Hard

[astral otter]

See 1.11 and 3.2 in the contents

[delicate galleon]

Sure

@astral otter

Both seems done?

[astral otter]

Yeah…so run the command then

[astral otter]

…

[delicate galleon]

? Command

How I add user

[astral otter]

Are you changing the password of an existing user or making a new user?

[delicate galleon]

Existing user

Can I make new user from here tho

[astral otter]

passwd <user>

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups

[astral otter]

Yes

[delicate galleon]

Tell how

[astral otter]

passwd does the root password, passwd <user> does a specified users password

[delicate galleon]

Syntax error

[astral otter]

With the user add command, if you want them to have sudo access best to add them to the wheel group and uncommented the first line of the sudoers file that says wheel

[astral otter]

Show me

[delicate galleon]

I did that

@astral otter

[astral otter]

Are you joking?

You could have 500 users

<user> is to signify which user you’re talking about

You put in the username you are talking about not literally <user>

[delicate galleon]

I tried specific

[astral otter]

That’s placeholder

[delicate galleon]

Nd got same error

[astral otter]

Post a good and clear picture of cat /etc/passwd

[delicate galleon]

I fixed

Now

Ty

[astral otter]

What was the issue

[delicate galleon]

My skill issue tbd

Tbf

[astral otter]

Typo on username?

[delicate galleon]

Yes

xd

[astral otter]

😂

any other issues?

[delicate galleon]

Yes

It's showing failed to start session..

[astral otter]

What DE / WM are you using?

[delicate galleon]

Xfce

Lightdm

[astral otter]

Installed a greeter?

Okay that’s a yes

[delicate galleon]

I did

[astral otter]

What dm does it use?

[delicate galleon]

Idk

I can showwh

What I installed

[astral otter]

Tty, systemctl status lightdm

Might be LightDM

[delicate galleon]

sudo pacman -S --needed xfce4-goodies file-roller network-manager-applet leafpad epdfview galculator lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings capitaine-cursors arc-gtk-theme xdg-user-dirs-gtk

I installed em

[astral otter]

Okay show systemctl status LightDM

[delicate galleon]

On live iso again?

[astral otter]

Try

Tty

[delicate galleon]

Otherwise I can't access terminal normally

[astral otter]

Why can’t you tty?

[delicate galleon]

Where to run it

[astral otter]

Google how to tty

[delicate galleon]

Sure

[pearl garden]

press ctrl+alt+F3

[delicate galleon]

Done

[astral otter]

Do you think I don’t know how to TTY? XD

I want them to learn how to google their problems

[delicate galleon]

I did

Now what I run

[astral otter]

The command I told you

[delicate galleon]

Tty status lightdm

Or

[delicate galleon]

This

Systemctl no work

[astral otter]

That one, tty isn’t part of the command

[astral otter]

Why not?

[delicate galleon]

Can't find service

[astral otter]

Did you try it the way I suggested

With the capital letters

[delicate galleon]

Yes

[astral otter]

Show me

Try in all lowercase as well just in case if you haven’t already

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightDM#Enabling_LightDM

Give that page a read

[astral otter]

Might be lightdm on arch

[delicate galleon]

What can we doim

I'm fine with any smooth de

Like KDE aight too

[oak coral]

lightdm is lowercase

[astral otter]

I mean if you want kde go with kde, if you want gnome go with gnome

[delicate galleon]

Done

It's showing smh

[astral otter]

What is it showing?

Disabled, enabled, running?

[delicate galleon]

@astral otter

[astral otter]

It seems to be a common issue

Try Googling it

Or just uninstall and install kde or gnome or whatever

[delicate galleon]

Sure

[oak coral]

What keyboard layout did you set?

[astral otter]

This is a very nice reply because google told me that was almost definitely the issue

[delicate galleon]

xd

rolled to artix

@astral otterbtw do I paste it here?

[oak coral]

[delicate galleon]

yes

gonna get arch repos
and install
artix-archlinux-support

[astral otter]

Dunno, never used artix

[delicate galleon]

then it's good enough for me

[delicate galleon]

ty

anyone know fix for it

[astral otter]

.note isokeyring

[neat bridge]

#9309 📣 If you are struggling to run archinstall or pacstrap, the first set of things to do is:

rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
pacman-key --init 
pacman-key --populate
pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring```

And if that fails, do:
```pacman-key --refresh-keys
pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring```


If refresh keys takes more than a minute just hit ctrl + c and continue, it likely has still worked.

It is not recommended to do the following as you become at risk of installing malicious packages:
```edit pacman.conf
and change the SigLevel to Never in pacman.conf```

[astral otter]

Try the top commands

If you need to reinstall the keyring don’t do it with -Sy

The above is because it frequently happens in the iso

[delicate galleon]

ty

YAYAYAY

I would've never rolled to

arch

if this worked before

tysm

@astral otterdo I keep it down server or up

[astral otter]

I have no idea, I don't use artix

[astral otter]

if you're not using arch repos I'd guess disable the arch repos and enable the artix ones?

[delicate galleon]

hey

I can use arch repos

on artix

[delicate galleon]

@astral otterhey

having issue

gpu related ig

here

[astral otter]

Why are you sending me a friend request

[delicate galleon]

oh

sorry

my amd gpu ain't getting used on arch

[astral otter]

#readme-support-access

Read the third bullet point

I’ve woken up to this server having like 15 notifications, most of which are moderation based

Those I don’t mind

But damn give me a chance to reply before you ping me

[astral otter]

Beyond installing the right amd drivers, if it’s a laptop some sort of program to turn them on when needed, if it’s a desktop making sure that your wires are connected to the gpu and not the cpu for monitor output, I can’t really help you

[delicate galleon]

Laptop

[delicate galleon]

sorry

[astral otter]

Then I’m guessing you need something like optimus (I don’t know if that’s maybe just for nvidia?)

It is

I don’t know if this is related maybe:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=279808

You’ve now deleted your original message

Which means if someone is searching for a similar error to avoid making a thread they lose the vital context

Consider closing this thread and making a new one for your gpu issues instead

[delicate galleon]

oki

how I close thread

arch installation solved

.solved

/solved

... solved

[neat bridge]

#9742 📣 If there is nothing else that we can do for you, please close this thread by adding "[SOLVED]" to the title.

• You can do this on desktop by clicking the three dots on the top right of the page, and pressing "Edit Post".
• You can also do this on Android / iOS by long tapping your post in the text channel list, and tapping "Edit Post".

Your title should be like so: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/503224329191030787/1039841700417384498/image.png
Thank you

[astral otter]

You need to actually read what it says

see how the title there has been edited to say [SOLVED]?