Partitioning the disk divides it into logical sectors. Formatting the disk places a useable file system onto that partition. I prefer lsblk to get a quick view of my storage layout. Nothing looks wrong here.
#problems with installation - partitions
marsh lantern
both partitions need to be formatted but if the MBR already exists you don't need to redo it
yes
flat mauve
You can also have partitions for things like swap (storage as ram), or for having things like a separate home partition
marsh lantern
oh sorry, actually in fdisk output you copied here, it only shows one partition
nvme0n1 is the disk itself as a whole
flat mauve
A lot of it is up to personal preference, although you'll want some form of swap, whether it be a partition or another kind
marsh lantern
nvme0n1p1 is your first partition, which should be made your efi
no I read it wrong again. It does list nvme0n1p2 on the same line. sorry if I am confusing you
use fdisk to set the partition type
yeah the more I look at it I'm like ??? getting text out of the iso directly is a bit of a pain but it's possible.
flat mauve
You could also use another partitioning tool like cfdisk is fdisk is confusing
If they already exist and are the right sizes, you wouldn't need to
What OS did this drive previously have?
That should work
marsh lantern
I may be wrong but I think your ubuntu installation is still on there. trying to install arch on top of it might lead to unexpected results
flat mauve
You want to reformat the partitions
marsh lantern
if the EFI is already functional for ubuntu it will work for arch unchanged. how much of that data are you using? if there's anything you want to save now is the time to think about doing it
type restart
assuming you're on another computer for discord you can get files out of the iso by setting a password and using scp on the discord computer
use that so you don't have to type out the output of commands for us to see
what did you f up?
if it actually worked?? you can just call umount on it
yeah iso takes a min to boot but nbd