i've never seen that before, but i would guess it's secure boot. find that option in your BIOS and either disable it, or set it to "Other OS"
#Problem with drives not loading
glossy oar
usually you spam the f2, f12, or Del key at boot
it depends on manufacturer
you use arrow keys and the enter key to navigate the settings
disable it
select the option with the arrow keys
and probably change it by pressing enter on it
can you send a pic?
oh it's just showing you the status on that screen
you probably change it in another tab
yeah
in none of the tabs?
it should be possible to disable it. i've never heard of a computer where you can't
if you try to change this, what are the options?
does it say something about other os
or is it just uefi and legacy
okay leave that alone then
and you can't select this?
you may have to set a supervisor password to be able to change that setting
doing that will make it so that you have to type the password every time you wanna enter the bios
so if you set it, be sure to write it down because it can be difficult or impossible to reset it if you forget it
it's worth trying
i guess you don't
you could set it to something simple like asdf
if it lets you
alr
cool
what's your options
nice
yep
okay
you can go back to bios and change the boot order
that works too
do you have any experience with linux?
why do you want to install arch
fair enough
but you should know that it's not a very beginner-friendly OS
👍
average windows experience
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Set_the_console_keyboard_layout_and_font
Available layouts can be listed with:
# ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/*.map.gz
you could do ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/*.map.gz | grep qwertz
grep is for filtering the output of a command
this will only show you ones with qwertz in the name
(if it wasn't clear, you type iwctl before doing the things this says, to get into the iwd prompt)
press Ctrl D
exit or q probably also works
ping google.com and see if you have internet
press ctrl C
glossy oar
press ctrl C
this is the key combination to terminate whatever is currently running in the terminal
like this? you do it `like this`
if you want a
code block
then it's
```
like this
```
to do syntax highlighting you do this
```javascript
console.log("hello world");
```
console.log("hello world");
usually it does a similar thing (opening something like a start menu depending on what desktop environment or window manager you have)
on linux it's often called the Super key
you looking at lsblk?
you could check with lsblk -f or fdisk -l
if you don't wanna close cfdisk you can switch to another TTY with Ctrl Alt f2
partitions are how disks are divided into pieces for different uses (bootloader, OS files, user files, swap, etc)
cfdisk is a tool for creating and manipulating partitions
lsblk is a tool for listing partitions
yeah
windows identifies different partitions using drive letters like that
linux does it differently though
i'm not familar with cfdisk specifically but here's how the disk partitioning and formatting process usually goes:
you create a partition, which is just marking a section of your disk for a specific use
you then create a file system on that partition, so you can actually use it to store files
on linux most people use the ext4 file system
windows uses ntfs
formatting is probably referring to creating the file system
which is what mkfs does
(MaKe File System)
yep
root
but yes
some people make a seperate partition for their user files (downloads, settings, etc) but it's not required
have you heard of the "page file" or "paging" in windows
basically it's used as extra ram for when you run out of real ram
but it has other uses
yes, your system will become quite sluggish if you're swapping heavily though
because disk storage is much, much slower than ram
so, windows identifies different drives with drive letters like C:/ and D:/
but linux does have that
instead, you take the paritions and give them different locations where you access them
so, you mount your root partition at /
and / is the root of your system
if you want another partition like the boot partition to be accessbible at /boot
then you mount the boot parittion at /boot
you can think of it like that yeah
also
when you, for example, do mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
/dev/sda1 is a way to access the raw data stored on the partition
not the files, but the actual bits that make up the file system
when you mount it, you tell the kernel to load the file system driver, which can interpret the bits on the partition and expose the file system to you in a way that you can use it
and you tell it to expose the files on there at /mnt
instead of somewhere like D:/ like windows would
it looks like you're trying to mount the EFI system partition, but it's a partition that you ran mkswap on
i think you have your paritions mixed up
the partition you wanna mount at /mnt/boot/efi is the one that you ran mkfs.fat on
sda1 is your EFI System Partition (ESP), it's where your bootloader will live
it's fat32 because it's an old file system because your BIOS has to be able to access it to load the bootloader
the linux kernel and related things will live in /boot, which is a part of your root partition in this configuration
you can find every package at https://archlinux.org/packages/
you can also search for packages and see info on the command line
pacman -Ss <search terms or package name> to search
you probably want at least sudo and nano as extra packages
but you can also install these after the pacstrap
the pacstrap has to include the base package
indeed
glossy oar
you probably want at least `sudo` and `nano` as extra packages
.
base is required
that's about it
you can install a desktop environment later once you're booted in the new system
if you leave a command running like the pacstrap, i would leave the lid open because i'm not sure if it would go to sleep if you close it
but yeah you can just leave it
or you can power it off, and boot back into the iso when you wake up
the only thing you would have to re-do is mounting the partitions
because mounting the partitions is a thing you have to do every time you boot a system, unless you configure them to be mounted automatically (using /etc/fstab)
in the iso, you can't make it automatic
oh yeah
linux and linux-firmware are required
and grub
nano is a text editor most people use
i don't know what sof-firmware is
but firmware for some kind of devices
base-devel is a collection of tools for building programs from source code (you need this to build things from the AUR)
yes
this is something people normally do after pacstrapping and chrooting into the system
but you can do it with pacstrap
you probably want that as well, it's for messing with UEFI boot entries
might be needed by grub
chroot ("change root") is a way of simulating being booted into a different system
when you run arch-chroot /mnt later, you're making it so what was /mnt is now /
you lose access to the things provided by the iso but it's like you're on your new install (without actually booting it)
are you chrooted
i.e. have you ran arch-chroot yet
because that's something you do after chrooting
okay, that command should work then
does it give you an error?
kindred fern
why not archinstall script?
glossy oar
i don't think that command is supposed to output anything
all it does is create a symbolic link
if you run date you should see the date and time though
often commands don't output anything, and people think it didn't do anything
but some commands don't give any output when they succeed
such as copying, moving, renaming files, etc
what did you do that you want to undo
you'll have to delete the user and make it again with the correct name
one sec
userdel -r username
userdel -r Alun1n
FYI, if you're wondering how to use a command, usually if you do that command with -h or --help it will show you what options it has, and what they do
and if you have man-db installed, you can usually do man <command> to view a more detailed manual for the command
glossy oar
looks like you tried to boot the new install but grub is not configured properly
go into your bios and go to the boot tab, you can modify the order there
huh
that's weird
idk
this is the GRUB bootloader, but it can't find its config file (it probably hasn't been created yet)
you should boot into the iso
that's what it looks like when the config file is setup right
but what you're seeing is not the flash drive
it's the new install
it's the arch installation you're working on creating
it's not the usb
but the install is broken right now because grub isn't configured
you have to get back into the iso
i don't know why your boot order thing is messed up in your bios
probably EFI USB Device
but try arch
idk
ok then try usb
is it not plugged in?
yeah try replugging it
def not windows, so i guess arch
but it seems like arch is the misconfigured grub
i'm wondering
did you make sure that sda was the drive in your laptop you wanna install arch to, and not the USB itself, which the iso is on?
like, is it possible that you've been trying to install arch to the usb
ok
lol
you might have to boot into windows and reflash the usb with archiso
hey, at least your Windows installation isn't broken!
do you have another device on hand that you could flash a usb with if you broke everything?
i think you did install arch in the usb
lmao
flashing it with rufus should work
does this laptop have multiple drives inside it?
or were you planning on installing arch on the same drive as windows
or were you planning on wiping windows and having only arch
that's doable
i would go ahead and shrink the C drive while in windows
to make room for arch
i mean, if you want windows and arch on the same drive, you have to make room to install arch on it
because windows is probably currently using the whole drive
but windows has the whole 475
basically you need to use window's disk partitioning tool to shrink the C drive to make room to install arch in
then, during the arch install, you will pretty much do it the same way
but you just make new paritions in the empty space instead of completly re-partitioning the drive
i think it's called diskpart
it's part of windows
i think it's gui
this might be the wrong tool
there's supposed to be a gui app
but i have no idea how this works either
you can probably find a tutorial for it
it's a tutorial for the partitioning tool
it doesn't make a difference
the amount of space you wanna take away from windows
correct
if you can strink it that much (if there is enough unused space)
then yeah
it is a good idea to leave a little extra room for windows (a couple gb at least) in case you need to come back to windows, you don't wanna completely run out of space
wha
is it asking you to change the letter
because you probably don't need to do that
something to remember when you do the arch installation this time:
you will be working with like /dev/sdb3 or whatever as the root partition
if windows is taking the first 2 partitions
oh i see
that works
you've made a new partition in the space you took away from windows; in the arch iso, you will need to delete it again and made new ones (for root and swap) but that's not a problem
you will use the EFI partition of windows
you can still use the guide
at least follow
.aw "installation guide"
granite emberBOT
glossy oar
bc i don't wanna hold your hand
but i'll help you with any questions
either one
i would probably change the boot order
yep
yeah the archiso uses grub too
btw the reason that the system didn't break, even though you totally overwrote the contents of the usb while booted on it, is because when you boot the archiso from the usb, the entire system is copied into RAM
like you can boot the iso and unplug it
and it still works
it's also here
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Prague /etc/timezone
if you're chrooted now
i like to use fdisk
can you run lsblk -f and show me the output
o.o
i'm not sure why the main drive is missing
but it should be there
lsblk -af do you see anything except loop0, sda, and sda1?
the usb is sda
but the other drive in your laptop should be there
it makes no sense that it's not there
central US
i would use this one
i linked to it in #tech-general
the only thing i can think of is that maybe running cfdisk has messed with something and made the drive no longer visible
if you did run it on that drive
if that is the case, it would be fixed by a reboot
just immediately check lsblk -f again
if you don't see the drive then i have no clue what's wrong
that's real weird
i guess
after like 7 pm your time
noon for me
glossy oar
yeah
did you select the correct boot device
you could also unplug the usb
so it's no longer an option to boot
i'm assuming you did run grub-install during the installation process?
did you install any bootloader
yeah
you need to go back into the iso, mount your partitions, and chroot in
and i can show you how to do that
granite emberBOT
Too few arguments for command note!
Usage: .note <name>
glossy oar
what do you mean
ah ok
yeah
loadkeys then you can jump striaight into mounting partitions and chrooting
i can
?
it does
#789648338995380224
arctic stream
We even have a stage channel
glossy oar
pacman -S grub
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
/etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab
sudo pacman -S ukui xorg-server
sudo systemctl enable lightdm
sudo pacman -Syu
nmcli --ask device wifi connect NETWORK_NAME
glossy oar
sudo pacman -S konsole
sudo pacman -S base-devel
cd
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin
makepkg -si
sudo pacman -Rns ukui
sudo pacman -S plasma-meta
sudo pacman -S sddm sddm-kcm
sudo systemctl enable --now sddm
glossy oar
```
cd
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin
makepkg -si
``...
.
sudo pacman -S git base-devel
yay -S google-chrome
yay -Ss <thing to search for>
check your sound settings
icon in the bottom right
we can hear you
yay -Ss azul
p7zip
yay -S dolphin
zip
unzip
sudo pacman -S unzip
~
glossy oar
i don't know about performance, because most modern browsers are pretty heavy
for chromium-based i would reccomend brave, otherwise firefox or librewolf
librewolf disables some stuff like history and cookies by default so if you use that, you would probably want to re-enable them
yes
chrome does too but i think you did it wrong
nvidia-settings package
spectacle app
you can move around your monitors in system settings
glossy oar
nvidia-settings is the linux equivalent of this
sudo pacman -Rns PACKAGE
this removes the package, its configuration files, and its dependencies as long as they are not required for anything else
you can read about all the options to pacman with man pacman
is that your main monitor?
glossy oar
have you checked this settings page
have you tried changing the resolution of that display
or moving its position around
i'm not sure
yes
what for
what program is it
that's not gonna work
wine doesn't work for programs that integrate tightly with hardware like that
it's good for random applications like games which don't directly mess with hardware
you can try it if you want; it's as simple as wine file.exe
but i don't think it will work
you have to install it
remember that you can search with -Ss (on pacman or yay)
it's just wine
probably wine-stable
hang on
do ctrl + C
to cancel
try sudo pacman -S wine instead of yay
i think it's trying to build an aur package
oh
you need to enable multilib
sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
near the bottom you will see these 2 lines
you need to remove the # from in front of them
i think it's a nano configuration
^S to save, ^X to exit nano
^ is control
then sudo pacman -Syu
then you can sudo pacman -S wine
-Sy is usually a bad idea
because it updates your pacakge lists without updating all your packages
which can cause something called a partial upgrade
it's usually fine
but sometimes it makes things break
wha
is that like a gui dialog
you can do that, but i would reccommend starting it in the cli
(terminal)
granite emberBOT
Too few arguments for command addnote!
Usage: .addnote <name> <text>
glossy oar
i expected something like that
what do you want GeForce Experience for specifically?
because there's probably another way to do it
that's already handled by arch
somebody made something similar to it https://github.com/MAPReiff/ShadowRePlay-Linux
KDE Plasma
same as on windows i'm pretty sure
you can also present all your open windows with Ctrl f9
huh
maybe it's your keyboard layout?
you just run them
you don't have to do anything special with them
idk. i would check this setting
how did you install obs
i know
i don't know what' s up with that
glossy oar
idk. i would check this setting
.
-Rns
but running the install command again will reinstall it too
you don't have to uninstall it first
perhaps open another support thread and someone with more nvidia/obs knowledge can help
check layout and caps lock
if that's correct, then you probably got it wrong too many times and are temporarily locked out
if you need to use sudo but it's not taking your password you can get a root shell with su
you type your root password
you can do su and then faillock --user USERNAME --reset
where USERNAME is your user
you can switch to TTY
glossy oar
you can do `su` and then `faillock --user USERNAME --reset`
this
or you can just login as root
i would guess that you have the wrong keyboard layout enabled
you can reset the lockout with that faillock command
switch to a TTY and run it
ctrl alt f2
ok
faillock --user USERNAME --reset
whatever your username is
Alum1n i think
java -jar file.jar
any error message?
have you tried starting it in a terminal
just type minecraft-launcher
you can do stuff line mine<TAB>
for autocomplete
it's backticks, not single quotes
`
idk why it's broken but you could use a third party launcher like multimc
what is feather
what is it...
oh it's a weird proprietary launcher
just use multimc or forks and add your own mods for performance and the other features
i see
looks kinda useless except it has a custom gui
you can do everything else yourself
fully customized and with an open source launcher
i'm just saying there's no reason to use it over something like multimc
u could also google
first of all, -Rns is not a command
it's the arguments you need to give to pacman or yay
secondly, if you didn't install feather-launcher through pacman or yay, then you can remove it that way
if you want to get rid of something you downloaded it, use rm in a terminal or just right click and delete the file in the file manager
if you wanna run the windows uninstaller to get it out of your wine prefix, then you need to find the uninstaller.exe file and run that with wine
probably something like
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/SOMETHING
you'll have to look around in that directory to find the exe
ls lists files
no
run the uninstaller exe with wine
what's in there?
lol
they're all the same
yes
e
what thingy
click add instance
then select that version
ya
by clicking the button that says "Launch"
you probably need java 8 for this version of mc
you're trying to launch it with the java 20 that you have installed
you don't have to switch you just need to install java 8 lol
install jre8-openjdk
then go to the Settings tab of the instance and enable Java, click auto-detect, and select java version 8
you have the instance open here
if you closed that then just click edit instance
nice
you don't need to run any jars
nope
don't use that
just click this button
and you can add mods in the mods tab
do you have the jars
but on github i'm guessing the jars are there
you don't need to build them from source code
just download them and add them here
something pretty close is KolourPaint
and something more advanced is gimp
which aims to be a foss version of photoshop
why are you running the forge installer jar
there is a button in multimc that does it automatically
glossy oar
.
that won't work anyway
multimc puts the files in ~/.local/share/multimc
not ~/.minecraft
if you get stuttering while in game, check f3 and see if you are running out of ram
i think by default it only gives like 1 GB to the game
you can increase it in the settings right below the java version
unzip file.zip
what mod is it? you can probalby find it on modrinth or curseforge
did you download this
flameshot
it's a different screenshotting software
glossy oar
did you download this
because this does not contain the jar
as it says, this is the source code
it doesn't even look like it's a mod
it's written in javascript
oh idk
it doesn't look like a mod
in the current directory
unzip will say where it put stuff too
while it's unzipping it
it tells you
it either dumped a bunch of files in your current directory
or it created a directory
type ls
it's in there
u a pvper?
i like modern minecraft lol
check modrinth
then why play 1.8
yeah
you can also use ctrl f9