Hi, will update with help here
#I'm installing for first time
cedar cave
cedar cave
Help plz
What should I do?
It looks like I don't have enough space for the swapfile
slow perch
It seems you have skipped quite a lot of steps before attempting to create the swapfile
Why do you even need a swapfile? A swap partition is not sufficient?
You should follow the official install instructions on the wiki
cedar cave
It seems you have skipped quite a lot of steps before attempting to create the s...
I have the feeling all the shit I did got fucked
How do I check if I even have arch installed?
I made two partitions
And installed some stuff
And edited sone files
honest pendant
you're trying to create a swapfile on archiso not the installed system
also you can worry about swap post-installation anyways, if you want you can just skip that step
slow perch
If you have restarted your system you must remount those partitions to be able to access them with the installer. If you installed a bootloader already you should remove your install media before continuing
cedar cave
If you have restarted your system you must remount those partitions to be able t...
Does this mean take my usb with arch in it out
slow perch
If you have installed a bootloader, yes
honest pendant
if you have an installation and have configured grub, then it should boot
honest pendant
do you have shit mounted
cedar cave
Don't think so
honest pendant
mount it then
cedar cave
I was mounting earlier
honest pendant
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
then mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/boot
slow perch
you have to remount every time you restart the computer
cedar cave
`mkdir -p /mnt/boot`
then `mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/boot`
Special device dev/sdxt doesn't ecist
honest pendant
i meant xy as a placeholder
cedar cave
Dmesg1 may have more info after failed mount system call
slow perch
yeah after the install is complete it's automatic, but before it's complete and you boot up to the installation medium you need to remount
honest pendant
do lsblk to list drives
honest pendant
`mkdir -p /mnt/boot`
then `mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/boot`
you'll want the ID of the one you installed grub on for this
honest pendant
ok so prolly sda1
west goblet
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
honest pendant
ls /mnt/boot/EFI
cedar cave
Grub_uefi
cedar cave
If there is a point in the wiki tutorial you all could refer me to continue with I'm down
Lemme check
west goblet
oh
honest pendant
the boot partition just has EFI stuff
west goblet
ok
honest pendant
do you recall running grub-mkconfig at any point?
cedar cave
Should I just continue with my meme tutorial like a bug man?
cedar cave
do you recall running grub-mkconfig at any point?
Would it hurt if I do it again?k
honest pendant
that tutorial seems to kind of suck
cedar cave
Awesome, any command to run? Also yall rock for helping ty userbyte
cedar cave
you need to chroot and do some other shit first tho
Got it, lemme look into that on the wiki
Awh thank you
Will check too
It's just intimidating. I'm a bug person. I need to be commanded
honest pendant
This is my first Linux distro
interesting choice
slow perch
You for sure did not pick the easiest one as your first distro
honest pendant
but if you're willing to learn, which it seems like you are, theres no problem with going arch rly
honest pendant
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Generate_the_main_configuration_file
anyways you need to chroot into the root partition first before doing this
well not necessarily but its easier that way
honest pendant
anyways you need to chroot into the root partition first before doing this
so, assuming the root partition is mounted to /mnt, you can do arch-chroot /mnt
once you're in there, ls /boot to verify that grub folder(s) and kernel images exist
cedar cave
Yes I did get an error trying to do their command, I will do that arch chtoot rn
Warning, mnt is not a mount point
This may have undesirable side effefts
honest pendant
aight so we need to mount to that then
exit out of the chroot if it put you in one
cedar cave
Chroot failed to run command bin/bash no such file or directory
I don't think I'm in it
honest pendant
aight
cedar cave
Just root@arch ~#
honest pendant
does the prompt say root@archiso
honest pendant
ok good
cedar cave
Yes
honest pendant
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
honest pendant
oh ur using lvm
honest pendant
is you're lvm home encrypted?
honest pendant
the video you linked does indeed instruct you to encrypt the drive, did you skip that part?
honest pendant
ah ok
slow perch
what does the lvs command display?
slow perch
great, and then lvdisplay
slow perch
you can mount the root one with mount /dev/volgroup0/lv_root /mnt
honest pendant
`mount /dev/sda2 /mnt`
lasse just guided you through the lvm version of what i was telling you to do earlier
honest pendant
so, assuming the root partition is mounted to /mnt, you can do `arch-chroot /mnt...
anyways you should be able to do this now
cedar cave
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
honest pendant
have you not generated fstab yet?
honest pendant
anyways you should be able to do this now
.
cedar cave
Just arch chroot mnted
honest pendant
do ls to make sure everything is there
honest pendant
ok ls /boot/grub
cedar cave
honest pendant
looks good
cedar cave
ok `ls /boot/grub`
Sending now
honest pendant
aight
cedar cave
honest pendant
ah ok it looks like you've already generated a grub config
cedar cave
# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
Should I do dis
honest pendant
yeah looks like ya did
cedar cave
Wait so everything's done I thibk
slow perch
Yeah, remember to unplug the USB before you start your system up, then it should boot up to the installed system instead
cedar cave
Yeah, remember to unplug the USB before you start your system up, then it should...
Wait
So
Type reboot
Remove USB
Then do it
honest pendant
unmount everything first
cedar cave
unmount everything first
How shoold i?
honest pendant
umount /dev/sda1
umount /mnt
cedar cave
Ty all for bein patient ik it's tough XD
slow perch
you are currently chrooted, type exit to exit the root, then umount /mnt/boot and umount /mnt
honest pendant
its not super crucial to unmount but it saves some shutdown time and is safer
slow perch
Did your PC boot to bios after removing the USB?
cedar cave
It says no bootabke device
It does this
honest pendant
is your system efi?
slow perch
Can you see your disks in bios?
cedar cave
cedar cave
is your system efi?
UEFI
slow perch
that should work
cedar cave
Acer spin 5 i5 some old craptop
slow perch
what if you make it try to boot from the hdd
cedar cave
How so?
slow perch
you should have a boot selection menu
cedar cave
The hdd hfs thing?
slow perch
yeah that, it's the only disk your bios sees
cedar cave
honest pendant
oh i think you have secure boot on
cedar cave
Disabled in this slide at least
cedar cave
Yeah I can't access that section with keyboard
honest pendant
ah ok
cedar cave
You know what I think it may be with the system time/date and making sure that info is correct at first
Didn't work
Maybe I need to set it in my archlinux installation m?
Justbrecheckinf
Put the usb back in?
slow perch
I think you should make sure the bootloader is installed correctly
Yeah boot back to the USB again
cedar cave
Maybe I need to set it in my archlinux installation m?
Checking it's date and time
Ok I'm back in arch
How would I ensurebbootlader installed correctly
celest fable
Checking it's date and time
Quick heads up. You can use archinstall script. And never follow random YT dude. Videos mostly skip a lot of stuff and get outdated quick.
TLDR
slow perch
Mount the filesystems again and chroot in to your installed root
celest fable
And be sure to be using pure UEFI and secure boot disabled. Also use ventoy or dd/balena etcher to flash the arch ISO
Then do the rest as said by lasse
@cedar cave
Note: idk if you're dual booting or not
cedar cave
Not dual
celest fable
Not dual
And as backup plan you can use EndeavourOS/archinstall if you are lazy/have issues installing Vanilla Arch
.aw Installation guide
slow perch
Yeah the secure boot saying it's in standard mode is a bit sus, but you did say it's disabled. Once you are sure it's disabled then
mount /dev/volgroup0/lv_root /mnt and mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/root and arch-chroot /mnt and pacman -S grub efibootmgr and grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=<use here whatever you had before>
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celest fable
For now
celest fable
Yeah the secure boot saying it's in standard mode is a bit sus, but you did say ...
Depends of the bios. Acer doesn't elaborate that good tbh
slow perch
you can also check if it's efi or not
cedar cave
How do I check everything that is mounted
celest fable
How do I check everything that is mounted
Lsblk
slow perch
on the arch install before you chroot you can check if it's efi by doing ls /sys/firmware/efi
cedar cave
Do you guys think this will take hours?
slow perch
that indeed is efi
cedar cave
Lsblk and ld sys firmware on screen
I have to install vanilla. I am becoming a soveigrn based uuuuser
my first distro
I would only hop to gentoo
slow perch
don't worry, it's going to work in the end
celest fable
I'm out. Good luck with Arch.
Advice: if you're new to Linux, you may like Linux mint. Unless you really want arch.
cedar cave
I'm out. Good luck with Arch.
Advice: if you're new to Linux, you may like Linu...
Ty :3
slow perch
Depends of the bios. Acer doesn't elaborate that good tbh
sorry I did a typo here, it's not /mnt/root it's /mnt/boot
celest fable
I have to install vanilla. I am becoming a soveigrn based uuuuser
No, you're not. Using arch and gentoo doesn't make you a haxxor
Mom, I use arch, so I can haxxor the NASA
https://media.tenor.com/rdeS8cJ55YQAAAAM/hackerman-error.gif
slow perch
oh sorry I also pinged the wrong post 😂
cedar cave
Mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot gives an error
slow perch
Yeah the secure boot saying it's in standard mode is a bit sus, but you did say ...
can you do ls /mnt
celest fable
Ppl praying on my downfall
Actually IDC what you use. Just saying if you're up for the challenge. Arch expects you to fix all the issues yourself, from installing it to doing system mantainance
cedar cave
No, you're not. Using arch and gentoo doesn't make you a haxxor
*Mom, I use arch...
U wait til I make my own OS
celest fable
my first distro
Should be Linux mint
slow perch
ls /mnt/boot
cedar cave
cedar cave
Should be Linux mint
:(
celest fable
Y so mean
Just having some truth on the process. But if you're up for the challenge and do want/Know how to mantain arch, go ahead and Install it
cedar cave
Ofc why else would I install it
I'm tryna learn
And lasse and byte and others have helped ke
Me
celest fable
I'm tryna learn
Most users learn arch on a spare PC/vm
celest fable
That's what I'm doing
I admire your enthusiasm tho. Without other derail or ado, good luck with Arch. Choose a desktop/wm later. For audio, use pipewire
.aw pipewire
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celest fable
.aw desktop environment
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celest fable
.aw window manager
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slow perch
It appears you don't have the boot partition installed correctly, as the mount did not succeed and you already have a /boot with all the files it should have
celest fable
They could wipe arch and start over
cedar cave
Yeah the secure boot saying it's in standard mode is a bit sus, but you did say ...
Fuck idk what I used before on the last one
celest fable
slow perch
Wiping is an option which is something I have done a lot in the past too while installing arch
cedar cave
It appears you don't have the boot partition installed correctly, as the mount d...
Fuck
How long will this all take
cedar cave
I think imma go to sleep soon I've been doing this for hours now. Will prob try to resume
At that point I'd wanna justbusebthe script but I shouldn't
slow perch
It's probably best to sleep before trying again
celest fable
How long will this all take
The time it takes is proportional to the to the user spends figuring out arch Installation
celest fable
This arch shit ain't no game
Wdym? I just said something with simple words.
slow perch
I've been using arch for 10 years and still are not able to install it correctly on first try most of the time
you'll get it working eventually
celest fable
I've been using arch for 10 years and still are not able to install it correctly...
3 years arch user here and I can install it fine . Last time it took me 20 mins to install it
slow perch
3 years arch user here and I can install it fine . Last time it took me 20 mins ...
good for you
slow perch
you could try without the lvm stuff, if you follow the official wiki instructions
cedar cave
So from the way beggining?
The wiki instructions are hard but fuck it
I prob should just try start from there
celest fable
I gotta wipe everything?!
If you screw up or missed a step on arch Installation process, yes.
That's why you follow official guide
celest fable
So from the way beggining?
Do you really need lvm?
celest fable
.aw lvm
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cedar cave
Do you really need lvm?
Idk
Prob not idk what it isi
I see person do something I follow
Fuck
slow perch
Just follow this guide to partition the disks https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide#Partition_the_disks
celest fable
I've be3n doing thisbshitbfor 5 hours
The time required to install Arch is proportional to the skills and time invested figuring out arch install by the user.
Can't rephrase it better or simplier.
slow perch
The time required to install Arch is proportional to the skills and time investe...
That's not extremely helpful right now
celest fable
I've be3n doing thisbshitbfor 5 hours
My first install took me 2 hours. Now it takes me 10 to 20 mins
cedar cave
My first install took me 2 hours. Now it takes me 10 to 20 mins
How
slow perch
It does not matter how long it's going to take as long as you are learning
celest fable
I see person do something I follow
So if the person says, throw your PC from the window of a 5th floor , you will do it?
cedar cave
So if the person says, throw your PC from the window of a 5th floor , you will d...
If it has elementaryOS or ubuntu
cedar cave
I just want arch to rice
And send it to my friebds
A screnshot
Ok not entirely true
celest fable
I just want arch to rice
You know you can rice any distro, right?
slow perch
you can rice any distro you want, arch is great if you want to learn how linux in general works, not just ricing your wm
celest fable
And send it to my friebds
celest fable
I've just heen watching too much luke smith
Anyways. For now, wipe the drive and start over. Follow official guide and do s regular install or use archinstall
slow perch
not really
cedar cave
Kind of part of my reasoning for wanting
Oh
Well I gotta make up another cope
If I'm trans should I use arch?
slow perch
Ubuntu and Mint are based on Debian, Fedora and CentOS are based on redhat
celest fable
I could guide you but I don't have the time rn
celest fable
Ik arch Installation process by memory
slow perch
Ik arch Installation process by memory
and whos being smug about using arch now
cedar cave
Improve my software dev schools
celest fable
Yes I want to get better
I hope i get some time on weekend to guide you. I can't rn.
cedar cave
I'll lyk all know if I install sometime. Hell yeah
celest fable
and whos being smug about using arch now
Not smug. Just my dark humor way of teaching
celest fable
If I'm trans should I use arch?
What
BRUH
celest fable
How being trans means that you have to use arch? That's so BRUH
celest fable
Well look at yalls pfps
And? Personal choices have no relation to the system you use. What if someone is trans and uses macOS?
cedar cave
How being trans means that you have to use arch? That's so BRUH
Maybe debian is trutrans
celest fable
Dont make me lose the last amount of seriousness and respect I have to you.
celest fable
And move that to #lgbtq
celest fable
Or #tech-general
cedar cave
xd
cedar cave
Hi
My boot partition wasn't installer correctly as my joint didn't succeed. How should I wippe everything?
Hai :3 I just shredded dev sda1 and sda2 does that mean my device is now clear of everything?
celest fable
My boot partition wasn't installer correctly as my joint didn't succeed. How sho...
You can use gparted live then make a new partition table > GPT
Or use cfdisk
.aw cfdisk