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gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 5:46 PM

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hi there, you can still fix it instead of reinstalling
boot into the live usb again and chroot, i can tell you the steps but i think it's worth trying it first

as for the error, did you use genfstab or manually wrote in fstab?

stone minnow Aug 21, 2023, 5:46 PM

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um

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im sorry i am very new to this

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boot into the live usb again.. as in restart?

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i have a fresh hard drive, i burned the arch ISO onto a usb

gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 5:47 PM

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it's fine lets start slowly, did you install already or are you starting?

stone minnow Aug 21, 2023, 5:48 PM

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thie is a fresh hard drive

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its been formated

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i am installing it for the first time

gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 5:49 PM

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i see, is it the uefi prompt? it would be helpful if you could take a screenshot of the error

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also which tool did you use to burn into the flash usb? usually i'd use balenaetcher or ventoy

stone minnow Aug 21, 2023, 5:50 PM

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i used Roofus

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from my windows comuter

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downloaded the ISO of the arch website

gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 5:51 PM

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try using balenaetcher to burn the iso and let me know if that works

stone minnow Aug 21, 2023, 5:51 PM

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so i should format the USB and brun to the ISO again with this

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i am guessing this is the Balenaetcher https://etcher.balena.io/

balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives

A cross-platform tool to flash OS images onto SD cards and USB drives safely and easily. Free and open source for makers around the world.

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ok i will try the new ISO

gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 5:56 PM

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yes, but i think this is normal and i'm probably overlooking it
let me know how it goes

stone minnow Aug 21, 2023, 5:57 PM

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when it has the ACPI error that is said (AE already exists) is that normal? i have not tried installing Arch before... unless i made a mistake burning the ISO

gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 5:58 PM

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it's certainly not supposed to happen

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acpi is for low level stuff like power

stone minnow Aug 21, 2023, 5:58 PM

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haha ahhh ok guess this is going to be a intresting first time for me

gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 5:59 PM

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might help you a lot later on; when your system breaks you can fix it from the flash usb or another livegui via chrooting
so you don't have to reinstall all over again once you can't boot into it

stone minnow Aug 21, 2023, 6:06 PM

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ok

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so i flashed it

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i will try install

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yes seems working

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UUIS mounted

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Ok great

No I am actually on the installation process

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gentle sand Aug 21, 2023, 6:25 PM

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okay that means you can continue now, good luck and enjoy!

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and if you're still confused you can install it in three ways

manual way from the wiki (including the boot loader)
automatic way with archinstall command (really easy to use for fresh drives)
watching a youtube guide (best if you understand the difference w/ legacy and uefi)

stone minnow Aug 22, 2023, 2:07 PM

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Thanks so much!

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@gentle sand Thanks a bunch my friend

Should I delete this post now?

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gentle sand Aug 22, 2023, 2:10 PM

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stone minnow <@889935936023035985> Thanks a bunch my friend Should I delete this post now?

i'm happy to help, mark it as solved or delete it as you like! ^^

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