help installing arch

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made on behalf of @magic crater and @worthy goblet

[magic crater]

omg killertofu

[tame jay]

archinstall

just set up wifi urself in terminal with wpctl

from there archinstall will make it ez

[viscid pivot]

no

no archinstall

in my humble opinion

especially if they're newer

[hard leaf]

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

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@magic crater are you in the iso?

[tame jay]

ay thats ur choice ig

some people like it

some dont

it is a mixed bag with the results u get tho tbh

but one thing i can be certain, it kinda brings the notion of reinstalling a system if u have issues to linux, which is something that isnt rly great if u wanna learn linux

[magic crater]

welp, I got the iso

I cant get the usb to be gud

I can write it but the bios doesnt like to boot it

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@magic crater show bios please

[viscid pivot]

you probably need to turn off secure boot

[magic crater]

its already off

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oh

[magic crater]

i'll show what I have

currently formatting my usb to fat32

This my boot menu

But it boots me into this

[magic crater]

and then I get sad

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@magic crater show every bios please

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@magic crater disable tpm

[magic crater]

turned it off

when I boot into the usb its still the same

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have you tried just using a different usb port @magic crater

or another tool like ventoy

[magic crater]

yes

ventoy doesnt even write into my usb

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why not?

have you tried using another usb

[viscid pivot]

what type usb you got

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yeah

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a smurf

a decapitated smurf cuz I lost his head

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try selecting GPT and UEFI in this

[magic crater]

it doesnt write

thats a neat thing

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why?

[magic crater]

idk

it used to write

out of a sudden it decided not to

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then how do you know it doesn't write? what happens when you press "start"?

[magic crater]

lemme show you

operation returned due to time expiring

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press ctrl + L in rufus

did rufus stop writing at all? or just when you tried to select GPT and UEFI?

[magic crater]

Format operation started
Requesting disk access...
No drive letter was assigned...
Will use 'D:' as volume mountpoint
Warning: Could not delete partition(s): [0x80070032] Não há suporte para o pedido.
Opened \.\PhysicalDrive1 for shared write access
Requesting logical volume handle...
No logical drive found (unpartitioned?)
Analyzing existing boot records...
Drive has a Zeroed Master Boot Record
Clearing MBR/PBR/GPT structures...
Erasing 128 sectors
Initializing disk...
Partitioning (GPT)...
● Creating Main Data Partition (offset: 1048576, size: 3.8 GB)
Waiting for logical drive to reappear...
Timeout while waiting for logical drive
Logical drive was not found - aborting

Found USB 2.0 device 'Flash USB Disk USB Device' (1221:3234)
No logical drive found (unpartitioned?)
1 device found
No volume information for drive 0x81
Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 4.1GB, Sector size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 497, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63
Partition type: MBR, NB Partitions: 1
Disk ID: 0xA7231EED
Drive has a Zeroed Master Boot Record
Partition 1:
Type: GPT Protective MBR (0xee)
Detected File System: (Unrecognized)
Size: 2.0 TB (2199023255040 bytes)
Start Sector: 1, Boot: No

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does this happen with another usb as well?

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and this

[magic crater]

just with gpt, mbr it writes fine

[magic crater]

I dont really count, cuz the other usb I got is literally a 2gb microsb plugged into a usb "adaptor"

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well, have you tried?

[magic crater]

oh wow its actually writing lol

microsb supremacy

ok, I'll try to boot now

It writes in gpt but when I boot the usb doesn't show

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fuck

[magic crater]

Sadge

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what's in the Advanced tab in your bios? you omitted it

[magic crater]

intel vtx and vtd

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what are the boot mode options in the boot tab? UEFI and what?

[magic crater]

greyed out, cant change

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this is what i found

[magic crater]

mhm

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because seriously i'm out of ideas

you can just try with yet another usb

[magic crater]

I dont have another

I was going to buy a new one today but I had some acidents yesterday

some real bad accidents

im ok now

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that's good to hear

[magic crater]

but yeah I didnt get to buy a new usb today

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if you really can't use a usb, you could use netboot i guess

let me think

do you have ethernet?

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@magic crater @cursive star USB-less Linux installer for Windows https://rltvty.net/installlinux.html

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https://github.com/rltvty2/wli

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you can change it to be arch

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can you?

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https://github.com/rltvty2/wli/blob/main/wli_v09009.ps1#L98

Custom ISO file

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that's doesn't answer the question of

is it able to install arch?

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try it and see

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well, the autor clearly states they don't actually recommend using it on main pc

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https://github.com/kryptocodes/arch_bat

[magic crater]

Nope

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well then i guess you can inject the arch iso directly to one of your partitions

[magic crater]

I could buy the cable

[magic crater]

I was thinking of this prob

[magic crater]

I wonder why

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you could try this though

but the author of wubiuefi says they don't support arch

but i guess you could try if it's just the iso anyway

but i recommend doing it manually

[magic crater]

The only idea that came to my mind was trying to dual boot linux in another partition and fron there delete the other whole

But that is probably not possible

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isn't that what we're trying to do?

[magic crater]

Im reading all now, I was getting to my bed

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good

[magic crater]

Mhmm

Idk why acer has this many problems with trying to install smth from a usb 🥀

There are tutorials on YouTube on how to do the opposite, install windows to the acer aspire 5 that had linux

I tried it and my laptop just black screened for a while and came back to life

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why would anyone ever do that

[magic crater]

I also dont know why

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you were supposed to go to bed

[magic crater]

I tried that like 2 days ago

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tried what

[magic crater]

The method the guy showed to install windows from the Linux laptop

In fact, it did not work

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do you think if you did the method backwards it would work /j

[magic crater]

Its not like theres a backwards way

[magic crater]

welp

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You should've waited 10 minutes before sending this message

[magic crater]

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It could've been perfect 12 hours in between the messages

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Let's hope it works

[magic crater]

hopefully this doesnt explode anything

something is happening

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not a good sign

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this all can be avoided by getting a usb

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assuming it's not an issue with the laptop

[magic crater]

acer hates me

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@magic crater which one? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Acer

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Acer#Flaky_Secure_Boot

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a 515-54

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@magic crater try this next

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this one? https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Nitro-AN515-54-51M5-15-6-i5-9300H-1650-8GB/dp/B07RJQKZ2G

[magic crater]

its not the nitro

lemme pull it rq

https://www.acer.com/br-pt/support/product-support/A515-54/NX.AX0AL.005/downloads?sn=149038949935

acer aspire 5

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do this and update your bios @magic crater

[magic crater]

boot option is now custom but still boots me into the efi shell

[timber vector]

If you laptop has other usb ports try them

[magic crater]

already

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Bruh

[magic crater]

I could install a older version of my bios ig

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Do.other distros work?

[magic crater]

havent tried

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👍

[magic crater]

but

I do believe it wont matter

and it would take ages to download another iso

[timber vector]

Alpine iso

~300mb

[magic crater]

hey killertofu, sticzus

I found these missing

the left its the ISO dvd and in the right is the usb

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And which usb is that? The smurf one?

[magic crater]

idk if this can mean anything

[magic crater]

yes

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Show me the full contents of the USB

Do like tree or something in the cmd

On your smurf

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or dir @magic crater

[magic crater]

this is the dvd from the iso

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do tree /F D:\

on both

[magic crater]

nvm just sent it as txt

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well it seems like the only difference is

so i don't know what was the windows explorer meowing about

[magic crater]

idk also

im starting to get crazy

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walk down to the nearest store and get a >5$ usb and use that one

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Is your phone rooted? :D

[magic crater]

I dont think so

[magic crater]

I cant do that rn

its night time and I got some facial problems

thats not much but I do need the lift to go to the store

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I would give you a lift

[magic crater]

if my friend comes here tomorrow to get me my bike I can ask for him to buy one

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Rn i will try and boot arch linux iso from windows 11

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Try and copy the mentioned files to the usb via the file explorer

So mount the iso file in file explorer

It eill have a name

For it has the name DVD DRIVE 😄 ARCH_202507

Bruh : D = emoji

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but everything seems good

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?

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!

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Oh wait

i havent finished it

Thats beta dont do.it yet

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Wait did he fix.the issue?

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no

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Oh

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but the files don't seem missing from the usb

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well almost created a foolproof way to boot archiso from hdd

I did it

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of course, there are ways

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Create new FAT32 partition Labeled ARCH_202507

Copy the iso files there

Than reboot and see boot menu

If it not there dont worry

You somehow booted into efi shell from usb so

Use it to execute /EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi

but before that you must find which is your archlinux partition

Write that partition and : in the efi shell

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Then this

And good luck

[Btw always resize windows partition from windows itself onlyyyyyy]

@magic crater

[magic crater]

Greetings

I will read what you got for advice

Hopefully it fixes it, if not ny friend is gonna buy me a new usb

[magic crater]

welp as you said I copied the iso files to the usb

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yo bye bye

it worked

[magic crater]

not so much 🥀

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how so

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@magic crater

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helo

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Hi

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Wtf happened now?

[magic crater]

systemd not supported or sum in these lines

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Send screenshot