Arch installation with archinstall and dual boot walkthrough

[last tapir]

thread for another user

@coarse falcon use this to ask for archinstall support

.aw archinstall

[misty sable]

Arch Wiki: Archinstall

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

[coarse falcon]

ok so do i partition before archinstall

@last tapir

[last tapir]

Load archinstall and it will let you

[coarse falcon]

yeah but It doesnt show free space

so do i have to use cfdism

@last tapir so should i partiton manually

using lovely cfdisk

[rapid saffron]

can you show ur cfdisk

[coarse falcon]

sure

[rapid saffron]

take a picture on your phone or somethin

[coarse falcon]

lemme abort

[rapid saffron]

aight

[coarse falcon]

i am on phone

[rapid saffron]

yeah i figured

[coarse falcon]

First i am aborting archinstall

[spark heron]

@coarse falcon

fdisk /dev/sdX (sdX being your thing you're installing it on)

type N, press enter and spam enter three times and then you have one fat partition that takes all your space that you can use and you select it inside the drive thing in archinstall.

[karmic star]

@coarse falcon do u have ur pc as UEFI and ur USB as UEFI too ? or ur trying to install it as legacy

[rapid saffron]

fdisk..?

[spark heron]

i forget the command

[coarse falcon]

i took the picture

[rapid saffron]

the tui one is cfdisk

cli is fdisk

[coarse falcon]

csm bios mode since windows doesnt boot in uefi mode

[spark heron]

not fdisk hold on,

[rapid saffron]

oh ur doing a bios install

[spark heron]

OH

welp

[rapid saffron]

that makes things a bit different but its fine

[karmic star]

cfdisk -z /dev/sda

enter this

and then

choose gpt

[rapid saffron]

process is essentially the same except you dont make a efi partition and you install grub to mbr

[spark heron]

yeah. it is fdisk

[last tapir]

I'll let you guys walkthrough him

[karmic star]

delete everything there and ill tell u what to exactly make

[rapid saffron]

second pic is the disk you wanna install to im guessing

[karmic star]

create a 512MiB partition

[rapid saffron]

nah i think he wants to dual boot

[coarse falcon]

also i am dualbooting

[karmic star]

ah

[spark heron]

he wants to dualboot

[coarse falcon]

your correct

[last tapir]

As this is guest wizard's thread, not mine. Good luck with archinstall

[rapid saffron]

this is not efi

[last tapir]

Tho I would recommend a manual Installation

[karmic star]

then im not good at doing both windows and arch install..just in partitioning

[last tapir]

.aw partitioning

[misty sable]

Arch Wiki: Partitioning

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

[karmic star]

yea thats way better

[last tapir]

.aw Installation guide

[misty sable]

Arch Wiki: Installation guide

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

[coarse falcon]

also i am only doing archinstall because its faster

[last tapir]

.aw dual boot

[misty sable]

Arch Wiki: Dual boot

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

[last tapir]

Alternatively you could jump into EndeavourOS if you're lazy asf

[coarse falcon]

anyways do i partition those free space

[karmic star]

faster yea but not better than manual way cause u know what is happening in the manual way

[rapid saffron]

theres a chance it just doesnt work

[last tapir]

[rapid saffron]

also yeah endeavour is way easier

[karmic star]

but installs bloat XD

[rapid saffron]

not rly

[last tapir]

You can install Arch the Chad way or go EndeavourOS if you're lazy

[karmic star]

i just dont like it myself

[rapid saffron]

it installs a DE for you and enables its extra tools repo

thats pretty much it

[coarse falcon]

may i make a poll?

for manual install or archinstall

[rapid saffron]

i vote endeavour

[spark heron]

i vote archcraft

[last tapir]

https://media.tenor.com/7EttrztgjiAAAAAM/palpatine-star-wars.gif

[alpine sage]

i vote manual

[karmic star]

everyone gonna say manual...just go for endevour since its faster

[coarse falcon]

i will do in #tech-general

[last tapir]

.poll

[misty sable]

Too few arguments for command poll!
Usage: .poll [channel] <title> <options>

[spark heron]

archcraft is nice too , maybe not for bios tho

[last tapir]

Smh do it here

[karmic star]

just go for endevouros dude..way easier for u

@coarse falcon

[last tapir]

You heard the people. Do manual Installation

[alpine sage]

yeah if he is a new GNU/Linux user EndeavourOS might be better

[coarse falcon]

i am doing manual

[karmic star]

alr so..do partitioning urself with windows then ping me and ill walk u through the rest

[last tapir]

Get an USB drive then ping us

Or burn a windoz DVD

You need both windoz and Arch ISOs to do the job

[brittle knoll]

Don't they already have an ISO?

[karmic star]

no cause he doesnt have a usb

[brittle knoll]

How did they boot at the start?

[karmic star]

arch dvd

[last tapir]

Arch installation with archinstall and dual boot walkthrough

[coarse falcon]

i got the usb drive

currently downloading the windoz iso onto the usb drive

@last tapir

[brittle knoll]

So you're doing a manual installation now?

[coarse falcon]

@brittle knoll yes but First i need help with mbr2gpt

[brittle knoll]

Alright

[coarse falcon]

@last tapir wake up lune

its not the time to sleep

[brittle knoll]

I can help you with it

If nothing goes wrong it should only be a few commands

[coarse falcon]

ok

how do i convert my mbr windows partition in windows iso

[brittle knoll]

Windows is the only OS on the disk, right?

[coarse falcon]

yes

and Theres freespace

[brittle knoll]

Get to the menu that says install or repair, and choose repair

then pick troubleshooting, then command line

[coarse falcon]

does this need the windows iso

[brittle knoll]

yes, do this in the windows ISO

[coarse falcon]

where is it located

[brittle knoll]

I believe it's the second menu you should see, after the welcome screen with the language selection

[coarse falcon]

Ok i opened the command line

and dine

[brittle knoll]

Run diskpart and then in diskpart run list disk

and send a photo

[coarse falcon]

done

disk 0 is the main disk

[brittle knoll]

ok, exit out of diskpart

[coarse falcon]

It is split between windows and free space

[brittle knoll]

you have a recovery partition, right?

[coarse falcon]

of windows?

[brittle knoll]

yes, you should have one unless you deleted it

[coarse falcon]

yes i do!

[brittle knoll]

ok, good, once you're out of diskpart run mbr2gpt /disk:0 /validate

this will just check if it can be run

[coarse falcon]

Vaildation complete Successfully

[brittle knoll]

Cool, you may want to backup anything important just in case something goes wrong

[coarse falcon]

how to proceed

[brittle knoll]

with mbr2gpt?

[coarse falcon]

ues

yes

[brittle knoll]

mbr2gpt /disk:0 /convert will convert it

[coarse falcon]

It succeeded to convert

Although It gave me a error about ReAgent.xml

its telling me to disable and enable winre manually

@brittle knoll How do i do that

[brittle knoll]

let me look

Are you able to boot?

[coarse falcon]

its booting

It booted!

@brittle knoll yes

[brittle knoll]

ok, if you run reagentc /disable and reagentc /enable in an administrator command prompt it should fix the recovery

[coarse falcon]

after this i'll be able to dualboot arch

[coarse falcon]

i cant boot into arch Linux in uefi

[brittle knoll]

Can you elaborate?

[coarse falcon]

well i have no secure boot

when i boot into arch linux It makes a noise like a coin and it stays at a Black screen

[last tapir]

Sorry bro, I have a job so I wasn't around

[last tapir]

Wdym

[last tapir]

Arch doesn't need secure boot

Just make a ventoy usb on GPT mode and copy archiso to it

Alternatively you can use EndeavourOS ISO

Then boot into it and proceed to install

[coarse falcon]

fkxed it

also i install arch tommorow

[last tapir]

remember to disable CSM on your BIOS

then boot into arch iso and proceed to instal

.aw installation guide

[misty sable]

Arch Wiki: Installation guide

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

[coarse falcon]

i fid

Also i converted my windows partition to uefi

[last tapir]

cool. why don't you use windoz to make a ventoy usb with arch, windoz10 and endeavourOS ISOs?

so you have an AIO USB

[coarse falcon]

because EndreavourOS is so 2022

[brittle knoll]

ok

[last tapir]

Wdym?

I suggest it as it will be easier to dual boot. Unless you want vanilla Arch

[coarse falcon]

and i am doing this tommorow

[last tapir]

take your time. you can choose between doing vaniila arch installation or a guided one with calamares and GUI desktop thanks to endeavourOS

[rotund epoch]

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[coarse falcon]

i done

[last tapir]

... solved