[SOLVED]what happened?

[stiff mortar]

Did I mount my cmos? Can I safely shutdown and try again? What's with the frowny face?

@pulsar shell

[mortal copper]

uh… what

[stiff mortar]

Idk

[mortal copper]

💀

[stiff mortar]

I'm scared and confused. Accidentally pressed enter

[mortal copper]

i think it's fine

usually i just ignore errors like that

and it's fine

[stiff mortar]

Do you know why it says 130 now?

[pulsar shell]

[stiff mortar]

Can I safely restart and try again?

All I've done is connect to wifi, and mount the entire NVME slot or something somehow

[pulsar shell]

try it and see

[stiff mortar]

I'm gonna shutdown and make sure my windows still boots lol

Yeah it boots. I'll go back into arch and try again

Heartbeat was 160 lol

Legit horrified

Mounted successfully after restart

[mortal copper]

lmao

[stiff mortar]

Where do I mount my home directory? I did root, efi, and swap already

NVM ill just mount it to /home

Here is my lsblk

[mortal copper]

/mnt/home

assuming you mounted root to /mnt

[stiff mortar]

Is it too late to change it from /home to /mnt/home?

If at all possible I'd prefer it to be /home rather than /mnt/home

[mortal copper]

well did u run genfstab yet

[stiff mortar]

No

[mortal copper]

thats… not a good idea
besides, it'll change into /home after you run arch-chroot /mnt

[mortal copper]

then yeah u can change it

technically you could mount it to both

if you really wanted

doesnt matter tho

[stiff mortar]

The used space in the drives BTW was lost+found

[mortal copper]

alr

yeah itll save data after a reformat

so

[stiff mortar]

I'll be back with any more issues or if I install it successfully

[mortal copper]

ok

[stiff mortar]

It gave the same error again

Do i press control c to exit it or do i need to do something else?

[mortal copper]

fuck if i know

[stiff mortar]

Oof

I'm just gonna press control c and hope I didn't fuck up my install

Now it says the 130root for some reason

130 means I terminated it as an exit code so it's fine

[mortal copper]

ye

[stiff mortar]

How do I just reset mirrors list to what it set automatically before I messed up and ran the reflector command?

Me, being stupid, didn't make a mirrorlist backup

[mortal copper]

pacman -Fy
pacman -F /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
pacman -S (the pacman package)

if this doesnt work

exit chroot to do the pacman -F things

[stiff mortar]

Was it supposed to return this?

[mortal copper]

ya so now u install pacman-mirrorlist

pacman -S pacman-mirrorlist

in the chroot

welll

idk if u should do in or out of chroot

were you using chroot before

[stiff mortar]

Wdym in chroot? I didn't even do the install yet this was just before I did install essential packages

Nvm

I'll use it out of chroot

And no I wasn't using it before

Real quick I need to -sy core and extra databases

[stiff mortar]

OK done

[mortal copper]

alr

that reset it

[stiff mortar]

How do i make it repeat this step?

Is it a necessity?

After I reset it

[pulsar shell]

@mortal copper

[mortal copper]

no

[mortal copper]

u make a cronjob or use the systemd service, check the link

[stiff mortar]

OK, I'll proceed with installing essential packages

[pulsar shell]

@stiff mortar what de/wm are you going to pick?

[stiff mortar]

KDE and I'll experiment with replacing kwin with awesomewm

Do I need the -K?

[pulsar shell]

as it says, yes

[stiff mortar]

Sorry what I meant to ask is what does it do?

I cant find much online

[pulsar shell]

@stiff mortar https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacstrap.8#OPTIONS

[stiff mortar]

Ty

[pulsar shell]

you're welcome

[stiff mortar]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but is this good for the packages to install before genfstab?

Both things mentioned in the Arch wiki installation guide for 2.2 and this video install guide

@mortal copper @pulsar shell

[pulsar shell]

The Arch Linux community does not offer support for the information contained in videos; for installation procedures, the Installation guide is the only officially supported document. The content in the videos may be out of date or inaccurate

[stiff mortar]

ok

[stiff mortar]

Everything in the command I ran for pacstrap is from the wiki and it says failed to install packages into new root.

I'll try -Syy and try again

Still no

I'll try updating my keyring with packman -Sy --needed archlinux-keyring

*pacman

Still failed

@mortal copper @pulsar shell

I'll just try installing the bare minimum

Base linux and linux-firnware

That worked?

[pulsar shell]

@stiff mortar try it and see

[stiff mortar]

I did, currently doing section 3. Thank you for helping me all this time through my ignorance :)

Does fsck come with the base package or do I need to install it separately? I don't see it in the aur

NVM I don't think I need a user space utility for file systems

[stiff mortar]

@pulsar shell these are the warnings i got when i tried to install the other packages in pacman while chrooted into my install on my root partition
possibly missing firmware for modules: ast, xhci_pci, bfa, qed, qla2xx, aic94xx, qla1280, wd719x,
consolefont: no font found in configuration

section 5.4 is the solution https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Possibly_missing_firmware_for_module_XXXX

[mortal copper]

that's normal

most people dont care

[stiff mortar]

for anyone reading and they need help, to do this you need to add AUR/community repo support in pacman, which im working on right now, before you install the firmware

[stiff mortar]

ill install the firmware js for peace of mind

[mortal copper]

alr

[mortal copper]

u dont 'add' aur support in pacman btw

[stiff mortar]

enable it?

[mortal copper]

u also dont enable it

u just

install base-devel

and then follow the steps here

.aw install

[old pelican]

Install

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install

[stiff mortar]

ty

[mortal copper]

the instructions there are pretty bad tbh

probably best to just get an aur helper

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru cd paru makepkg -si

[stiff mortar]

Is there any advantage to paru over yay?

[mortal copper]

yeah it has more updates

but most people dont care

so you could do either

[stiff mortar]

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru cd paru && alias paru yay ||(i havent made an alias in years please forgive me if i got it wrong)||

lol

[mortal copper]

alias paru=yay

also, youll need to add that to your shellrc or it isnt permanent

im gonna have to go soon

ish

[stiff mortar]

k, ty

sleep well ms. 1 am

(almost 2)

did i mess up by doing git clone in root?

i cloned paru into root... is that fine?

running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system... ill fix the firmware things later when i have a non root profile. but for now, is it fine to have paru cloned into root?

gonna run sudo rm -rf /paru

then install into home directory

[mortal copper]

uhhhh oh yeah youre supposed to do it as a normal user

so u should redo

[mortal copper]

ya

[stiff mortar]

should i do this now while still as root user?

[mortal copper]

if ur doing it as root then dont use sudo

[stiff mortar]

but the command is fine?

[mortal copper]

yeah

[stiff mortar]

horrified for a second cause i ran cd without specifying root then when i ran ls i saw no files

everything is good now and ill proceed with install, ty

[mortal copper]

ok

[stiff mortar]

So - my 2nd NVME is one I installed into my laptop rather than come reinstalled... I don't see arch

Oh nevermind MSI was cool and realized people might install a 2nd SSD with the empty NVME slot they left and install another OS, you just need to dig a bit