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sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:11 AM

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hey so i recently ive had this itch to install arch on my brand new pi 4 (well its actually a replacement but since no one really cares im not going to go in detail about this) since my computer already has arch linux installed. though all the guides ive tried havent worked for some reason so i turned to you guys. do you have any better method to do this?

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also small detail

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its a model b

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if you need to know that

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:14 AM

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Model B is the only model of Pi 4

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:14 AM

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oh

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yeah

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never heard of pi model a

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atleast not in the 4 family

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:14 AM

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did you follow the official installation guide? https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-pi-4

Raspberry Pi 4 | Arch Linux ARM

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:14 AM

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wait theres guide for that

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i just googled

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:14 AM

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(also note that Arch Linux ARM is a separate distro from regular Arch)

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:15 AM

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oh this guide seems right

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lemme try it

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:15 AM

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sinful bone atleast not in the 4 family

i think there was only a model A for the Pi 1 and 3

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:15 AM

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3A seems like a real model to me

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i think it happened

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also i just found a random hack
u can actually see ur disks names (not their partitions tho) without sudo

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wont have to sudo this time

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ok ima follow the guide ill let you know if theres anything i need

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:17 AM

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sinful bone also i just found a random hack u can actually see ur disks names (not their par...

or you could just use ls /dev

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:17 AM

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oh

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well that works too

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uhh

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what the heck

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is my pc hallucinating or smth

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/sda2 is literally there

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@wild sentinel

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what do i do

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ok ima just redo my steps

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maybe i went wrong

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oh it became sdb

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help me

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:25 AM

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if it became sdb then use sdb

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:26 AM

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well now sdb isnt getting recognized anymore

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ok screw this im trying again

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im speedrunning

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also i forgot i already had the file downloaded from my previous attemps so im saving more time

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k its extracting

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oh do i have to follow this part too

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:31 AM

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sinful bone oh do i have to follow this part too

do that if you want the 64-bit version, ignore it if you want the 32-bit version

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:31 AM

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well i got the aarch64 zip

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i guess ill run that command at the bottom before unmounting partitions

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@wild sentinel why is it taking so long

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:44 AM

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SD cards are slow

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:44 AM

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yeah

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oh it just finished

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ill continue

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now i gotta sync

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waiting

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arth

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sed -i 's/mmcblk0/mmcblk1/g' root/etc/fstab

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do i replace mmcblk0 and 1 with my partitions?

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@wild sentinel

wild sentinel Oct 15, 2024, 8:50 AM

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no

sinful bone Oct 15, 2024, 8:50 AM

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ok im just gonna run it

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there

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i unmounted

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now testing time

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uhh my case fam os dpomg sp,e weord stiff

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and now its not recgonizing mmc1 sd card

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help?

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lemme sind pic

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send

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