Arch manual installation support

[remote bane]

200g???

Ohh

[waxen osprey]

Nah I just copied a format

[remote bane]

Fk

Forgot to write

Just give the commands

The next ones

[waxen osprey]

Ok.

Make sure you setup the partitions like that

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1

cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p2

cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1p2 cryptroot

mkfs.btrfs /dev/mapper/cryptroot

cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p4

cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1p4 crypthome

mkfs.btrfs /dev/mapper/crypthome

mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3
swapon /dev/nvme0n1p3

mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2 /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt

btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@snapshots

umount /mnt
mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,subvol=@ /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt

mkdir -p /mnt/{boot,home}

mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2 /dev/mapper/crypthome /mnt/home

btrfs subvolume create /mnt/home/@home

umount /mnt/home
mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,subvol=@home /dev/mapper/crypthome /mnt/home

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

lsblk /dev/nvme0n1

Send me a screenshot

[remote bane]

Srrsrrry took me a LONG ass time to type

[waxen osprey]

Ahh perfect dude

pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

[remote bane]

Give me all the packages

[waxen osprey]

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

[remote bane]

Throw in chromium as well

[waxen osprey]

You can pick em up as your user

So no permissions are fucked

[remote bane]

Ohh

Ok

No errors plsplsplsplspls

[waxen osprey]

Smooth sailing now fluks should be happy

[remote bane]

What did u change that time?

So that luks wouldn't fuck me in the face

[waxen osprey]

Nothing we just did them in the correct order

Without the wrong /dev/

[remote bane]

So in the future, if I fuvk up like that I just have to reset my machine every time?

[waxen osprey]

No

[remote bane]

Done

[waxen osprey]

You wont be doing anything on this scale of breakability

[remote bane]

hopefully

[waxen osprey]

I'll explain once we get to a usre

user

[remote bane]

And if so def gonna experiment on VMS

[waxen osprey]

cat /mnt/etc/fstab verify it

[remote bane]

Seems good

[waxen osprey]

arch-chroot /mnt

Aright good back where we were

[remote bane]

Check it

Should I wait for u to tell me to type since now it's chroot mode?

[waxen osprey]

Yes please

[remote bane]

Ok srysry

[waxen osprey]

Where are you from

[remote bane]

India, but kinda lived most of my live in USA lol

[waxen osprey]

I'll fill out the time zone info

[remote bane]

Ohh

I'm in USA

[waxen osprey]

Where would you like the timezone

[remote bane]

Pdt

Pacific daylight timezone

[waxen osprey]

So

LA would work

[remote bane]

Yea

Sorry should've said that frm the statt

Start*

Ohh yah we still in chroot btw

So uh take that into account

[waxen osprey]

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

We need to be

[remote bane]

to bee???

Also can I type

[waxen osprey]

Yeah sorry

nano /etc/locale.gen

Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Remove the # in front of it

locale-gen

echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

echo "arch" > /etc/hostname

[remote bane]

Systohc is an unrecognized option

Is it just 1 dash or r u sure that it's 2

[waxen osprey]

It should be two separate commands my fault

[remote bane]

Bash: nano, command not found

Ohh right. We never got the basic pkg

[waxen osprey]

Oh yeah we gotta rock vim

change nano to vim or exit chroot and grab nano

[remote bane]

How do I grab nano

[waxen osprey]

pacman -S nano

[remote bane]

Done

[waxen osprey]

then arch-chroot /mnt

[remote bane]

Nano still not found

Wtf

Vim also not found

[waxen osprey]

exit

[remote bane]

Yeh then it works

[waxen osprey]

pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

Might take minute

[remote bane]

Done

[waxen osprey]

Cool

chroot again

If we have to run pacman -S nano again

[remote bane]

Still not found

[waxen osprey]

Ok run pacman -S nano in chrot

chroot

[remote bane]

Hopefully I don't break anything

Done

[waxen osprey]

It wont

Promise

[remote bane]

Works now

[waxen osprey]

Ok so nano /etc/locale.gen

uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

You can go I'm making sure everything is spot on

Once done lmk

[remote bane]

Ohh ok

Done

[waxen osprey]

locale-gen

[remote bane]

How do I save again?

Cntrl x

And then y yea?

[waxen osprey]

echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

Yes ctrl+x y enter

echo "myarch" > /etc/hostname

nano /etc/hosts

[remote bane]

My arch is whatever name I want or?

[waxen osprey]

Yes

::1             localhost
127.0.1.1       myarch.localdomain myarch```

passwd Sets the root password

pacman -S cryptsetup btrfs-progs

nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

[remote bane]

When do I exit chroot

Can I run those?

[waxen osprey]

Later

We are almost done

Run em baby

Insidde /etc/mkinitcpio.conf look for HOOKS=

Match it to this
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block encrypt filesystems btrfs fsck)

[remote bane]

It's taking forever to download

[waxen osprey]

Yeah we will rank your mirrors out of the iso

[remote bane]

There's no hooks that match exactly that

It's missing encrypt

[waxen osprey]

Yeah make yours match it

[remote bane]

Ohh, all the hooks?

[waxen osprey]

Mhm those are all you'll need

mkinitcpio -P

[remote bane]

Holdon there's like 5 hooks and I have no copy pastr

[waxen osprey]

All good

We are about finished

Do you have a bootloader in mind or you don't care?

[remote bane]

Grub

Also that right?

Can I save it, safely

[waxen osprey]

Looks good

[remote bane]

Ok just ran this

What's happening

Errors

Ohh fuck

Fuck I did encyrpt instead of encrypt

[waxen osprey]

Yup lol

pacman -S grub efibootmgr

[remote bane]

Uhh

I may or may not have ran the other command already

D:

[waxen osprey]

Nah you're supposed to

The mkinitcpio?

[remote bane]

Ohh I was about to lose it if I had to redo it

[remote bane]

Ye

[waxen osprey]

Nope we still good

[remote bane]

What bootloader do you recommend?

I just had grub cause heard it's reliable

[waxen osprey]

I use GRUB or systemd-boot

[remote bane]

Grub it is!

[waxen osprey]

GRUB is nice

[remote bane]

Installed

Now what

So what did we just do

[waxen osprey]

nano /etc/default/grub

Installed grub

[remote bane]

Mkinitcpio

[waxen osprey]

Now we are going to configure it for btrfs

[remote bane]

K

[waxen osprey]

Creates your initial ramdisk environment

[remote bane]

Check that out

Uncomment that to enable booting from Luke encrypted devices

[waxen osprey]

Ok find GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

[remote bane]

Found it

[waxen osprey]

Let's actually run UUID

Quit the nano session

[remote bane]

Uuid?

[waxen osprey]

and run blkid /dev/nmve1n1p2

Yeah unique id for partition incase disks swap identifiers again

[remote bane]

It's 0

[waxen osprey]

I need the UUID

[remote bane]

Mb

[waxen osprey]

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet cryptdevice=UUID=ff1e8357-6eee-4d19-97ad-af315692b812:cryptroot root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot rw rootflags=subvol=@" Confirm before you match the lines

UncommentGRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y

[remote bane]

Space after quiet?

[remote bane]

Uncomment before or after

[waxen osprey]

yep

Remove the # in front of its line

[remote bane]

K

[waxen osprey]

Ok

Let's try and mount efi real quick for GRUB

[remote bane]

Done commands

Hopefully I did em right

[waxen osprey]

mount | grep /boot

[remote bane]

Done

[waxen osprey]

It return something?

[remote bane]

Yep

[waxen osprey]

Ok

grub-install /dev/nvme0n1

[remote bane]

Cannot find EFI directory

....

[waxen osprey]

Ok thats ok

We just need to add it. I was going for systemd-boot but GRUB is fine

umount /dev/nvme0n1p1

or umount /boot

[remote bane]

Did second one

Dont even wanna risk typos at this point

[waxen osprey]

ok mkdir -p /efi

[remote bane]

Done

[waxen osprey]

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /efi

[remote bane]

Not an error ....but

[waxen osprey]

Yeah thats fine.

[remote bane]

k

Now? @waxen osprey

[waxen osprey]

mount | grep /mnt

Verify we are good

[remote bane]

Returned nothing

[waxen osprey]

lsblk

and screenshot

[remote bane]

Still in chroot

[waxen osprey]

Yes that's why you didn't get a return just thinking if we really need to exit

Fuck it exit

Lets double check

mount | grep -E '/mnt|/efi|/home'

Should return 3 entries

nvme0n1p1 cryptroot crypthome

[remote bane]

Uhh oh

...

5

[waxen osprey]

Screenshot

[remote bane]

Ig u could say it gave back 2 extras...?

[waxen osprey]

First one is ok

The one im concerned with is the double /mnt points

[remote bane]

So how do I fix that...

Wanna just try and boot it?

It's 1:30 am and I still have hw to do

Ohh wait

I Could try unmounting

And then reassigning the /mnt

[waxen osprey]

cat /mnt/etc/crypttab

[waxen osprey]

cat /mnt/etc/fstab

[remote bane]

@waxen osprey

[waxen osprey]

Idk how the hell we ended up with two root mount points

[remote bane]

Fk...

[waxen osprey]

You didn't accidently send one with / and /@

It's ok we can fix it

Just don't what the fuck happened there

[remote bane]

So like

How

Dude

Wanna just wing the boot

See what happens

Or we can try n fix this

[waxen osprey]

blkid /dev/mapper/cryptroot /dev/nvme0n1p1 /dev/mapper/crypthome /dev/nvme0n1p3 /dev/nvme0n1p4

[waxen osprey]

Ok now we need to confirm UUIDs

[remote bane]

Huh

[waxen osprey]

cat /etc/crypttab

[remote bane]

@waxen osprey

[waxen osprey]

Alrighty then, let's fix this up

[remote bane]

How

[waxen osprey]

nano /etc/crypttab

[remote bane]

K

[waxen osprey]

# See crypttab(5) for details.

# NOTE: Do not list your root (/) partition here, it must be set up beforehand by the initramfs (/etc/mkinitcpio.conf).

# <device>       <UUID>                                    <key file>         <options>
cryptfs         UUID=539a5556-5b33-4b68-8a53-98da4f222b1f9 /etc/mypassword2   swap_cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,swap_size=256```

Is what is should look like

[remote bane]

Uhh doesn't look like that at all

There's a whole name column

@waxen osprey so do I delete all of that?

[waxen osprey]

Let me check the requirements for name real quick

[remote bane]

Where r u getting all this info from

Can barely find anything here

[waxen osprey]

# See crypttab(5) for details.

# NOTE: Do not list your root (/) partition here, it must be set up beforehand by the initramfs (/etc/mkinitcpio.conf).

# <name>    <device>                                    <password>          <options>
cryptfs     UUID=539a5556-5b33-4b68-8a53-98da4f222b1f9   /dev/urandom        swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256```

Now after that cat /etc/fstab

[remote bane]

Are those supposed to be in hashtags

[waxen osprey]

Yeah they're fine

nano /etc/fstab

[remote bane]

Uncomment cryptfs or no?

Huh

After first uuid

It's just a /

I'm so confused

[waxen osprey]

Yeah this is actually kinda scuffed atm, the dual / root subdirectories fucked us at generating fstab

[remote bane]

Jolly

[waxen osprey]

It's ok I can fix it

Just gotta alot to type

Ok so we may need to revisit the crypttab

But let's do fstab first

# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system>                          <dir>  <type>  <options>                                                                 <dump> <pass>
UUID=9c1e5ec-bf33-4fbd-8891-cd2efabe1aab /      btrf   rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=5,subvol=/          0      0
UUID=9c1e5ec-bf33-4fbd-8891-cd2efabe1aab /home  btrf   rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=256,subvol=/@home   0      0
UUID=0187-E33C                           /boot  vfat   rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/mapper/cryptfs                      none   swap   defaults                                                                  0      0````

Make it look just like that,

Here's the corrected crypttab ```# Configuration for encrypted block devices.

See crypttab(5) for details.

NOTE: Do not list your root (/) partition here, it must be set up beforehand by the initramfs (/etc/mkinitcpio.conf).

<name> <device> <password> <options>

cryptfs UUID=539a5556-5b33-4b68-8a53-98da4f222b1f9 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256```

Make sure everything is on the correct line, don't get thrown off by word wrap

[remote bane]

U sure no hashtag?

[waxen osprey]

It's for reading purposes

nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

[remote bane]

This is actual hell to type

[waxen osprey]

Confirm our hooks

I know I just did it off a screenshot lmao

You can type it or reboot and start over

Entirely up to you

[remote bane]

Not really much of a choice xD

cries in pain

[waxen osprey]

Me too

But I wont leave you until you're arch certified

[remote bane]

:D

[remote bane]

Doesn't this have 1 too many arguments

I'm on phone so I can't really get the spacing right

Nvm

[waxen osprey]

You got it?

[remote bane]

Yes

@waxen osprey

So

Just to clarify

The first argument

On the left

Has a hashtag

Right?

On both the files

[waxen osprey]

Nope

[remote bane]

Damn

[waxen osprey]

Remove the # in front of each entry

[remote bane]

No hashtags got it

Same for crypt tab? But only the one that I added

No hashtag

[waxen osprey]

Nope but the rest looks good

[remote bane]

Wait holdon

This is my cryptab

Does it look fine

[waxen osprey]

Lemme double check uuid

Spot on

[remote bane]

I'm ready

Aight what's the command now

[waxen osprey]

Ok let's check mkinitcpio

nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Double check the HOOKS and FILES

FILES should have /etc/password1

[waxen osprey]

If FILES doesn't have an entry make one

Perfect

[remote bane]

Has 1

[waxen osprey]

Oh no

HOOKS are wrong

[remote bane]

Huh

[waxen osprey]

The HOOKS are wrong

[remote bane]

Ohh wtf

OHH

I forgot to write it

Feck

Feck

Fvck

[waxen osprey]

Lmao

[remote bane]

Is there a way to copy paste?

[waxen osprey]

Well let's hope everything else got wrote

Not yet

[remote bane]

Can u retype the hooks pls

[waxen osprey]

HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block encrypt filesystems btrfs fsck)

[remote bane]

Finally

Finally

Please tell me that it's good

[waxen osprey]

You only had to change the uncommented one hahahahahaha

Goof ball let's continue

[remote bane]

.....

Yeah.... Let's continue indeed

[waxen osprey]

```mkinitcpio -P````

Cross fingers

[remote bane]

Error

[waxen osprey]

pacman -Syu linux

[remote bane]

Error

[waxen osprey]

Holy shit.

[remote bane]

😭

[waxen osprey]

oh

chroot

Skip the download

[remote bane]

How do I enter it

[waxen osprey]

run mkinitcpio -P

arch-chroot /mnt

[remote bane]

Same error

FUCK

[waxen osprey]

Ok now pacman -Syu linux

[remote bane]

Already done

[waxen osprey]

Run it again

[remote bane]

K

Building a lot of shit

[waxen osprey]

Yep

[remote bane]

OHH

YES

NO ERRORS ON MKIN

ITS GOING

ohh there's an error

[waxen osprey]

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot /dev/nvme0n1

[waxen osprey]

Ahh fuck

[remote bane]

Lots of missing firmware

[waxen osprey]

Nope no errors

[remote bane]

It finished tho

[waxen osprey]

Warnings are ok

Run the grub-install above

[remote bane]

Ok

[waxen osprey]

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[remote bane]

....what the fuvk

[waxen osprey]

Now I know you made that bitch an EFI partition

[remote bane]

Huh

What did I do

[waxen osprey]

The type

[remote bane]

Yeh I made it EFI

At the very beginning

[waxen osprey]

Yeah I remember lol

Dammit man that really sucks

[remote bane]

It sucks more for u

U wasted 8 hours tryna help me 😭

[waxen osprey]

Didn't waste shit

alright

lets try some shit real quick

umount /boot

[remote bane]

Not booted already

Still in chroot

[waxen osprey]

exit

umount /mnt/boot

[remote bane]

Not mounted

[waxen osprey]

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1

parted /dev/nvme0n1 set 1 esp on

[remote bane]

You may need to update fstab, it says

[waxen osprey]

Its ok

You got it mounted and parted?

[remote bane]

Yea

[waxen osprey]

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot You got this?

Ahh ok mount her up

[remote bane]

Mounted

Srry I cannot process anything rn

[waxen osprey]

arch-chroot /mnt

[remote bane]

K

[waxen osprey]

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[remote bane]

HOLY SHIT

IT WOTKED

[waxen osprey]

And then prayls /boot/EFI/GRUB

[remote bane]

NO ERRORA

[waxen osprey]

WE aint out of the woods yet g

[remote bane]

Uhh....

[waxen osprey]

Thank god.

[remote bane]

succ...esss?

SUCCESS!!!

What did you do to make it work 😭

Also is arch on my ssd now, officially

[waxen osprey]

Yeah it's on there let's hope our fstab is good

ls /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/initramfs-linux.img /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img

Confirm all exist

[remote bane]

Yep

Returned nothing

No errors

But no results either

@waxen osprey . So, if I reboot now and boot into my ssd... Will it boot

[waxen osprey]

ls /boot

Can't yet we arent finished

[waxen osprey]

Let's do something real quick

exit chroot

[remote bane]

Ok

[waxen osprey]

cp /mnt/etc/fstab /mnt/etc/fstab.backup

[remote bane]

What does that do

[waxen osprey]

pacstrap -K /mnt btrfs-progs nano networkmanager

[remote bane]

Ohh btw did we ever do snapshots on this installation

[waxen osprey]

Copies the current fstab

WE did I just made them less so it's more manageable

[remote bane]

I see

[waxen osprey]

Yes, root and home

[remote bane]

Done

[waxen osprey]

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

[remote bane]

Returned nothing

[waxen osprey]

After that```arch-chroot /mnt

[remote bane]

Yep

[waxen osprey]

passwd

Set root password

systemctl enable NetworkManager

Enable this so we don't take any chances.

exit

umount -R /mnt

swapoff -a

reboot

[remote bane]

Swapoff -a command not found

Nvm

Wrong syntax

Okay

Rebooting

[remote bane]

Now what

[waxen osprey]

Oh ok

[remote bane]

Ssd

Or usb

[waxen osprey]

Now make sure you boot into the correct ssd

And you should see a GRUB bootloader

[remote bane]

HOOOOO

[waxen osprey]

With an Arch Linux entry

[remote bane]

YOU DID IT

YOU DID ITTTT

[waxen osprey]

No you fucking did it

Now we still need to make a user and shit

[remote bane]

I just copied and somewhat understood the concept

Ohh fk

It booted but

Ohh

Wait

[waxen osprey]

Well you did a pretty advanced setup for your first time.

[remote bane]

It's just taking centuries to boot

[remote bane]

Rly?

Ohh no

[waxen osprey]

Yeah dude no one runs btrfs or encryption out of the box

Dammit

[remote bane]

Were those not the correct uuids

[waxen osprey]

Unless I typed em wrong

[remote bane]

I should've cross checked

Any way to unfuck it up now?

Cause like I know how to do it now and I can just scroll through this form to reinstall it

[waxen osprey]

Yeah boot back into live environment

[remote bane]

How do I reboot

[waxen osprey]

Alt + Ctrl + Del or reboot

[remote bane]

Wait live environments?

Like on the SSD?

[waxen osprey]

Nah usb

[remote bane]

Fresh reinstall?

[waxen osprey]

Nooo

Just need to fix UUIDS

[remote bane]

Aight

I'm in

Ok, what's the to do list boss

How do I view the uuid

[waxen osprey]

do blkid

[remote bane]

Which id is actually important?

Ohh

[waxen osprey]

Ok now send fstab

/etc/fstab

[remote bane]

K

[waxen osprey]

just cat it and send another one

[remote bane]

Cat isn't working on etc fstab

Ohh

There's just nothing there

Istg I wrote the files

I'm not being gaslit by this software

[waxen osprey]

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 cryptroot

mount -o subvol=/ /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt

```mkdir -p /mnt/home````

mount -o subvol=/@home /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt/home

mkdir -p /mnt/boot

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

[remote bane]

Mnt home no such file or dir

[waxen osprey]

mkdir?

[remote bane]

I did

[waxen osprey]

Double check your typing

[remote bane]

It's like 3am, u mind if we continue this tomorrow? At this pace we aren't gonna make much progress @waxen osprey

[waxen osprey]

Don't mind at all

[remote bane]

Rly sorry for wasting ur timeD:

Just reboot right?

[waxen osprey]

Didn't waste my time

You're learning

[remote bane]

Yeh

Ty bro

[waxen osprey]

We can ensure the mounts whenever you get back on

generate our fstab and boot in

[remote bane]

I'll see u tomorrow, gn. Hopefully it's done tomorrow

Yessir

Lemme send u a friend req

[waxen osprey]

Yeah totally

[remote bane]

Ty, gn

[waxen osprey]

Gn bud