bootloader won't install | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 7:59 PM

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Can someone help me install the bootloader im on a i7 gen4 intel cpu

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:01 PM

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What's not working?

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And what bootloader?

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You have to be more descriptive

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:02 PM

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Grub, and it just spits out its not a efi thingy

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Even tho it is

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Like while i was trying to 'grub install' it said 'no efi dir'

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:11 PM

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Correction: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:14 PM

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Esp is the boot sector right?

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grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:19 PM

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compact jolt Correction: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

Using this

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:20 PM

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Did you mount your efi partition and created a /boot/EFI directory?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:21 PM

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How do i do that :<

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:23 PM

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Assuming you’re already chrooted run mkdir /boot/EFI. Then mount your EFI partition and run grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

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Mount the EFI partition to /boot/EFI

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:25 PM

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Mount the partition is cd right?

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:26 PM

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mount /dev/PARTIONNAME /boot/EFI

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Do you remember what partition is your EFI partition?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:27 PM

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How do i check it :p

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:28 PM

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Exit the chroot by typing exit. Run fdisk -l to see the names of all of the partitions then run cfdisk /dev/thenameofthedisk

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:30 PM

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compact jolt Do you remember what partition is your EFI partition?

Its /dev/sda1 and its a EFI system type

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:30 PM

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Alright

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Go back to the chroot

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Have you installed grub using sudo pacman -S grub?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:31 PM

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So run chroot?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:31 PM

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compact jolt Have you installed grub using sudo pacman -S grub?

Ye

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:31 PM

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heavy sedge So `run chroot`?

arch-chroot /mnt

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:32 PM

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Alr alr then what

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:33 PM

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mkdir /boot/EFI, then run mount /dev/sda1 /boot/EFI.

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Then you install grub by running: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

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The last thing you need to do is run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:35 PM

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mount: /dev/sda1/boot/EFI: cant find in /etc/fstab

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harold1

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:36 PM

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You forgot a space

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:37 PM

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With the sda1?

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Yea was that mb mb

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:38 PM

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Alright

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:38 PM

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grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/EFI should work now

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:39 PM

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Now i got a different error

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:39 PM

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Then after what Me Derp said type grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:39 PM

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heavy sedge Now i got a different error

When creating the directory or installing grub?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:40 PM

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/boot/EFI doesnt look like an EFI partition while running the grub install

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:40 PM

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Can you show lsblk -f

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:41 PM

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compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:41 PM

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Oh, your using EFI?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:42 PM

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you already mounted it

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:42 PM

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shell notch you already mounted it

Yay?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:42 PM

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run umount /boot/EFI and then rm -rf /boot/EFI

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I mean you already had it mounted before

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to /boot

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:43 PM

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shell notch run `umount /boot/EFI` and then `rm -rf /boot/EFI`

Did that now what

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:43 PM

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grub-install --efi-directory=/boot

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:44 PM

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/boot doesnt look like an EFI partition while running the grub install

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Again

compact jolt Mar 4, 2023, 8:45 PM

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Try grub-install

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:45 PM

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It cannot find the EFI dir

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:46 PM

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hm

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What filesystem did you format the EFI partition as?

manic cedar Mar 4, 2023, 8:46 PM

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did you set it to EFI when creating the partitions

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:46 PM

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Gpt, it was already formatted tho

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:46 PM

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manic cedar did you set it to EFI when creating the partitions

Ye the guide told me to

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:47 PM

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heavy sedge Gpt, it was already formatted tho

That's the partition table for the drive, not the filesystem of the partition

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:48 PM

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Ext4 iirc

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So what do i do now?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 8:59 PM

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heavy sedge Ext4 iirc

The EFI partition has to be vfat for it to work

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 8:59 PM

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How do i change it? Or is it too late?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:00 PM

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Before you reformat it, can you show me the contents of it with ls /boot?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:01 PM

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shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:03 PM

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Alright, exit out of chroot, unmount it with umount /mnt/boot, then run mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1, finally remount it with mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot and regenerate the fstab with genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

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after that, chroot back in and run pacman -S linux

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:06 PM

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Ight running the pacman linux

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Done!

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:07 PM

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shell notch `grub-install --efi-directory=/boot`

Now you should hopefully be able to install GRUB

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:08 PM

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Fingers crossed

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IT WORKED party

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Now what

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:09 PM

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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg will generate the config for GRUB

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:10 PM

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Ight now im done? I can reboot/ sleep

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:11 PM

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You've set a root password with passwd, right?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:11 PM

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Ye

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:11 PM

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Exit out of chroot and reboot then

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:11 PM

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Can i check in some way

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:12 PM

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I think passwd --status should show it

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:13 PM

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Thx ppl

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I can exit out of chroot reboot and remove the usb right?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:14 PM

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yep

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:15 PM

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Now i can officially say "i use arch btw"

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THE KEYBOARD IS MESSED UP

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:17 PM

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Do you have a different keymap?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:17 PM

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Think i do

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And the login is somehow incorrect

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PepeHands all this work

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 9:20 PM

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you might have to go back to iso and set your keymap

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:20 PM

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So reboot again?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:21 PM

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If you can't get the password right, then yeah probably

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also, make sure you use root for the username

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:22 PM

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Oh i didn't do that

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 9:22 PM

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration#Persistent_configuration

Keyboard configuration

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:23 PM

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Use loadkeys [keymap] to set the keymap, and then set it in /etc/vconsole.conf like that wiki page says

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:24 PM

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No mounting to drives right?

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 9:24 PM

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you will have to mount them again and chroot

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well not chroot

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:24 PM

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If you're going to use the ISO, yes

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if you manage to login you don't need to though

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:25 PM

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I just rebooted into the usb again

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:27 PM

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Just mount your root partition (sda3) and edit /mnt/etc/vconsole.conf to KEYMAP=[your keymap]

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:28 PM

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Fixed thumbsupemoji

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Logged in as root in the main os whats the plan after this?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:29 PM

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You'll want to make a user, and I assume you want a GUI?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:29 PM

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Kinda i can work with i3 too

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:31 PM

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For a user, run useradd -mG wheel [username], m creates a home directory and G wheel adds it to the wheel group, which will be used for sudo

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:33 PM

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Ight did the command

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:34 PM

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And then set it's password with passwd [username]

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This can be the same as your root password, if you want

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:34 PM

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Its gonna be the last digits of pi trollface

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:35 PM

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shell notch This can be the same as your root password, if you want

Ez ez arch is easy

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:35 PM

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And before you switch to the user, check if you have sudo installed by running it, and if you don't install it with pacman

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:36 PM

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Just sudo?

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Wait i have the goofy ahh connection issue again?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:38 PM

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heavy sedge Just sudo?

hm?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:39 PM

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Sudo isn't installed but i cant connect to the internet again

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 9:39 PM

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did you install networkmanager

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:39 PM

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No?

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Did i need to? Because the guide didn't tell me

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 9:41 PM

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yeah

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:42 PM

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empty

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 9:42 PM

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empty

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:42 PM

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Now what?

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 9:42 PM

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back to iso time

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:42 PM

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I dont wanna go back there

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Its scary

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:43 PM

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Are you using wifi or ethernet?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:43 PM

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Ethernet

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:43 PM

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You can probably just use systemd-networkd for now

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:44 PM

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Not found

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Wouldn't going back to the iso be faster?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:45 PM

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Create a file at /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network that looks like this

[Match]
Type=ether

[Network]
DHCP=yes

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You could, but this shouldn't take long

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Then run systemctl enable --now systemd-networkd systemd-resolved

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which will enable and start the services for them

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:46 PM

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Just Forever?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:47 PM

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Hm?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:47 PM

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Would tht fix the issue for this one session or just for the whole os

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:48 PM

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It should work after reboot, but it may be a good idea to replace it with a different network software with more features later

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:48 PM

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Oki

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I did that now reboot? Back into root

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:49 PM

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Do you have internet?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:50 PM

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Lemme try

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Ye

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:50 PM

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Also, it's probably better to just install base-devel instead of sudo, as it includes it as well as some other packages you'll probably need

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 9:50 PM

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Installed!

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 9:53 PM

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And to enable sudo for your user, run EDITOR=[text editor] visudo and uncomment the first line about wheel

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:00 PM

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So it would be like EDITOR=nano visudo?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:00 PM

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Yeah

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:02 PM

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And then the %wheel one?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:02 PM

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Yep

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:03 PM

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Got it now what, the GUI?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:04 PM

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Do you have an idea of what you want?

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a WM like i3 is also an option

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:05 PM

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I can always change right?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:05 PM

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Yeah

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:05 PM

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Ive been a year with kde and gnome and i want sumthin different

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You have a recommendation

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:08 PM

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Well, there's a lot of other options

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What kind of DE are you looking for?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:09 PM

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One you can customize

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:11 PM

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Well xfce4 is pretty customizable

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:11 PM

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I'll go with that then

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:13 PM

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I believe you'll want the xfce4 and xfce4-goodies packages

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:13 PM

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Oki

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 10:13 PM

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And you'll want lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter for a login screen

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After that just run systemctl enable --now lightdm and it should start

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I have to go for a bit, so hopefully everything works out lol

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:16 PM

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Thanks so much for helping me with the install obama_care

tidal aspen Mar 4, 2023, 10:16 PM

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heavy sedge `grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory`

try mounting your efi partition to /boot/efi or just /efi

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(from iso /mnt/boot/efi or /mnt/efi)

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oh

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its solved

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nevermind lmao

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:17 PM

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Thanks its already solved tho lol

tidal aspen Mar 4, 2023, 10:17 PM

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lol

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:18 PM

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When do i switch to user tho?

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 10:18 PM

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whenever you're ready to enter your graphical environment

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just do ctrl d to exit the root login and login as your user

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:19 PM

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Theres an error installing xfce4

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failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 10:20 PM

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do pacman -Syu then try installing it again

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:21 PM

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Works!

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YEAHH BABYYY

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brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 10:30 PM

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yay!

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:33 PM

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how do i get it to notice my second hdd, and i have no sound lol

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 10:34 PM

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do you see your second hdd in lsblk -f?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:34 PM

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yee

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 10:35 PM

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make a directory to mount it somewhere (like sudo mkdir /media/second_hdd)
then sudo mount /dev/sdXy /media/second_hdd
then you can add it to /etc/fstab to make it mount automatically if you want

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oh and you can sudo chown Sayori:Sayori /media/second_hdd to be able to access it as non-root

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 10:39 PM

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?

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oh wait im dumb

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i need to put the info right? the name of the hdd

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still doesn't work :/

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 11:04 PM

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sudo mkdir -p /media/steam_lib

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:07 PM

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how do i add it to fstab then?

brazen geyser Mar 4, 2023, 11:09 PM

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easiest way is probably
sudo pacman -S arch-install-scripts
genfstab -U / | grep steam_lib | sudo tee /etc/fstab

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:11 PM

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the /dev/sdXy is the drive?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:11 PM

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It's probably better to just use the file manager's method of mounting it

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But adding it to the fstab works as well

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:12 PM

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shell notch It's probably better to just use the file manager's method of mounting it

how

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also the audio doesnt work, can't listen to men

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:13 PM

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I think the gvfs package allows thunar to manage drives

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:13 PM

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shell notch I think the `gvfs` package allows thunar to manage drives

so pacman -S gvfs?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:13 PM

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Yesh

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:13 PM

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im learning :D

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then what

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:15 PM

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I believe you should have the option to mount them in the file manager

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:17 PM

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nope

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as far as i can see not

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(also the time is one hour behind

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:20 PM

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If you go through thunar's settings do you see an option related to GVFS?

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I think it should be under the advanced tab

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it may not say GVFS though

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:23 PM

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i dont see it

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:23 PM

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is volume management enabled?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:23 PM

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idk

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:24 PM

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what filesystem is the drive?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:25 PM

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how do i check

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:26 PM

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what did you format it with originally?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:28 PM

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pfff probs linux only vers

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:31 PM

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heavy sedge idk

it's under the advanced tab

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also, you restarted thunar after installing gvfs, right?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:31 PM

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huh???

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:31 PM

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shell notch also, you restarted thunar after installing gvfs, right?

closed and opened yea

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:32 PM

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File -> Settings/Preferences

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It could be under edit too

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:32 PM

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alr

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im in the preferences tab

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:34 PM

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Under the advanced tab it should mention something like gvfs or volume management

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:34 PM

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yee

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then config?

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:38 PM

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what?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:38 PM

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nvm

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got it

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now to fix the audio

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:41 PM

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Pipewire is probably the option for an audio server

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Unless you want to use pulse audio for some reason?

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:41 PM

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idk

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which ever is easier

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:43 PM

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Install the pipewire, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-jack, and pipewire-alsa packages

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Choose wireplumber when asked and override all packages

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:43 PM

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ight

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done

shell notch Mar 4, 2023, 11:45 PM

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And reboot

heavy sedge Mar 4, 2023, 11:45 PM

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ight

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now what

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how do i change it

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found out how obama_care

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one last thing

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how do i add 1 hour of time

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:06 AM

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Does the xfce4 settings have an option for automatic timezone?

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:08 AM

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idk

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i just put in CET

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and now it works thumb_up

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:12 AM

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also it seems that you need to restart xfce4 for gvfs to work

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so are you able to see the drives now?

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:13 AM

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yah

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i need to put in the sudo passwd to access tho

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there was a way to now do that right?

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also need help with installing steam, unless yall are buzy i can wait lol

brazen geyser Mar 5, 2023, 12:25 AM

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it should be as simple as sudo pacman -S steam

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:26 AM

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its not

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shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:29 AM

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you need to enable multilib for pacman

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it's the repo for 32-bit apps

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edit /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment the hashtags before this

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It's also probably a good idea to uncomment Color and ParallelDownloads, which make pacman faster and look nicer

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:32 AM

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shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:33 AM

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You uncommented both lines, right?

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Also, avoid using Sy, it can sometimes lead to partial updates (use Syu when you need to update the repos)

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:34 AM

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oh

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lemme do syu first

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:34 AM

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shell notch You uncommented both lines, right?

ye, still the same error

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:37 AM

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Well that's the error I get when I comment out just the include line

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Can you show a screenshot of it?

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:38 AM

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shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:38 AM

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weird, the community include got commented out

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:39 AM

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should i uncomment that

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:39 AM

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yes

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:40 AM

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bruh

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:41 AM

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no I meant this

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:41 AM

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owh

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:42 AM

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recomment community-testing, uncomment that line, and run pacman -Syu steam

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:43 AM

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that works!

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obama_care

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yeah i have no network connection

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:45 AM

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that's weird

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:45 AM

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ikr

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:46 AM

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maybe try a different network software, I'd recommend network manager, though you could also use something like network manager

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:47 AM

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how?

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im already glad i got the os working lol

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:50 AM

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install networkmanager with pacman, run systemctl disable --now systemd-networkd systemd-resolved and then systemctl enable --now NetworkManager

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:52 AM

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imma try that then sleep (its like 2 am lol)

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yay?

shell notch Mar 5, 2023, 12:56 AM

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You installed it, right?

heavy sedge Mar 5, 2023, 12:56 AM

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think so

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