Help setting up arch after install ( kde )

[halcyon plume]

I just finnised installing arch ( dual booting ) and whn i boot am in a termianl and i have to do for name root and sfter my code what do i have to do ?

[mystic tartan]

This is normal

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

The rest has to be setup afterwards as per general recommendations

[copper sapphire]

did bro rrly say rtfm to a roblox player

[halcyon plume]

Wdym ?

[copper sapphire]

insider joke

[mystic tartan]

Yes I did. This is an arch support server what did you expect

[halcyon plume]

Yea can some1 help me step by st3p ?

The wiki is not for me

I get confused

[mystic tartan]

I don't want to be rude but this might be a sign that Arch is maybe not the right distro for you. Anyway though. What would you like to have in your setup?

[halcyon plume]

Kde plasma

Or hyprland

[mystic tartan]

we could do both

[halcyon plume]

Ok ok

Lwt mw boot into arch

[mystic tartan]

I will be teaching you how to navigate the wiki, just so you learn a bit too :D

[halcyon plume]

Ok ok

Ty

Ima go get some water

[mystic tartan]

In the linkthat I sent above this is point 4) Graphical user interface

[halcyon plume]

Ok

I will login as root

[mystic tartan]

yes

[halcyon plume]

Ik

Now

?

[mystic tartan]

oh yea we should probably do user account first

[halcyon plume]

Hwo

How

[mystic tartan]

which would be secion 1.1 in the general recommendations

[halcyon plume]

Ok

Lwt me go see

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

[mystic tartan]

you will then find User Management as a link which will give you this helpful thing

[mystic tartan]

yes at the bottom it links to general recommendations after install

[halcyon plume]

Ok

So i just copy this command from the screnshot ?

Yea

[mystic tartan]

understand it first

[mystic tartan]

yes because you need to obviously adjust the command to what you need

[halcyon plume]

Wdym by that

[mystic tartan]

do you have the wiki open?

[halcyon plume]

No bxa i am on phone

And i have to be on dc to talk with you

[mystic tartan]

true, so you want -m to create a home folder and nothing else

that will give you the default bash login shell and not additional groups

[halcyon plume]

Oo ok

What is the command ?

[mystic tartan]

the wiki provides an example for this

[halcyon plume]

Ohhh archie nice name

Ok so i do useradd -m archie ?

[mystic tartan]

yes, the # means you need to be root but seeing as you are logged in as root this is the command

[halcyon plume]

Ok

Done

Now what

[mystic tartan]

you probably want sudo

[halcyon plume]

No need

[mystic tartan]

what is your plan for privilage escalation then?

[halcyon plume]

I mean no need for this command

[mystic tartan]

yea i told you

[halcyon plume]

Now after this command what do i do

[mystic tartan]

do you want to install it?

sudo is not shipped by default

[halcyon plume]

Oh

I need it dont i ?

So yea

[mystic tartan]

technically you don't but it is convenient

then follow the install steps in the wiki and then do the configuration steps

[halcyon plume]

I cant open the wiki bcs i talk to you

Can you sent me the commands pls

[mystic tartan]

then you don't learn

[halcyon plume]

Or you are bored ?

Ok

[mystic tartan]

installing sudo is really easy you can do it no problem :D

if you have questions just ask :)

[halcyon plume]

Ok

In the wiki in what part is it

[mystic tartan]

On a phone click here for the contents

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

hen installation and afterwards configurations

[halcyon plume]

Ok

I dont understund how to install sudo

Pacman -S sudo

?

[mystic tartan]

yes

small p though

[halcyon plume]

Oh

Ok

So

[mystic tartan]

but that is probably just phone writing P instead of p at the start I guess

[halcyon plume]

Yep

Ok installed

Oh

Wait

[mystic tartan]

ok

[halcyon plume]

A lot of errors

[mystic tartan]

ah do a system update filrst: pacman -Syu

[halcyon plume]

Ok

Same

Faild to do things

[mystic tartan]

oh wait

ping archlinux.org

[halcyon plume]

Oh yea

Wait

My tp link internet think it doesnt connect and i have to unplug it and plug it again

When i boot to linux

[mystic tartan]

LOL

[halcyon plume]

And i forgot how to connect

[mystic tartan]

wdym you forgot how to connect? Wifi?

[halcyon plume]

Yes i dont remember thw commands

Wait

Ima go see them

[mystic tartan]

probably iwctl

[halcyon plume]

Command not found

But why

[mystic tartan]

oh you probably skipped installing your network mananger

[halcyon plume]

I javent done anyth8ng dude

I just vooted into arch

And didnt know what to do

[mystic tartan]

that was part of the install guide

[halcyon plume]

I did that

Lets do it again

[mystic tartan]

did you click the network configuration link?

[halcyon plume]

What nwtwork th9ng ?

[mystic tartan]

or the other one on the bottom?=

[halcyon plume]

...

LOL

i juat did the things some1 said to me to do

He wxplained them

[mystic tartan]

and that is EXACTLY why you should learn how to read

you need to set that up using the archiso

[halcyon plume]

Lol

Sooo

[mystic tartan]

since you can't connect to the internet from your install

[halcyon plume]

I am cooked ?

[mystic tartan]

no

[halcyon plume]

Oh ok

[mystic tartan]

just really inconvenient

boot from your archiso USB

[halcyon plume]

Me ?

Wait

Ima plug it

[mystic tartan]

who else is here xd

[halcyon plume]

Lik

Lol

[mystic tartan]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#Automatic
while you wait you can pick one of these network managers to use

[halcyon plume]

What is the easiest

🙂

[mystic tartan]

probably NM

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

NetowrkManager

[halcyon plume]

Ok

Ok i pluged the usb and i am in

[mystic tartan]

chroot into the system (you don't need to mount your swap)

[halcyon plume]

Tell me the commands

[halcyon plume]

I dont jave a swap file

[mystic tartan]

just like you did in the install, mount your / to /mnt and /boot to /mnt/boot

then arch-chroot /mnt

[halcyon plume]

I dont remember shit

Tbh

[mystic tartan]

real question actually, what made you choose Arch?

[halcyon plume]

Its the best one
I jave tried mint ubuntu nobara fedora

[halcyon plume]

And its just good i like it

[mystic tartan]

ok I don't know how your system looks so you will now have to send some output

lsblk -f

[halcyon plume]

Sda5 is the 1gb one

And the sda6 is the 79gb one

[mystic tartan]

ah i see dual boot

[halcyon plume]

I actually believe that i should had used arch8nstall lol

[mystic tartan]

sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt

[halcyon plume]

Yep

[mystic tartan]

I think you should install CachyOS ngl

[mystic tartan]

after that, sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot

no sudo I am stuid

you are root already

[halcyon plume]

Lol

[mystic tartan]

wtf, do ls /mnt pls

[halcyon plume]

Ok done

[mystic tartan]

send output

[halcyon plume]

...

Command 🙂

[mystic tartan]

did you run ls /mnt?

wtf

lsblk -f again pls

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

make sure I can read the mountpoints

[mystic tartan]

oh you forgot sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt

[halcyon plume]

Done

[mystic tartan]

yes then the other one

[halcyon plume]

Sda5 ?

[mystic tartan]

yes

[halcyon plume]

Done

[mystic tartan]

then arch-chroot /mnt

[halcyon plume]

W

Lol

[mystic tartan]

are you trolling?

[halcyon plume]

Nop

Why would i

[mystic tartan]

why did you mount it on top of it

[mystic tartan]

you needed to run this

[halcyon plume]

Oh ok

[mystic tartan]

we can fix it from here but reboot is prob faster for you

[halcyon plume]

So i reboot ?

I will

[mystic tartan]

yes

into the USB again

[halcyon plume]

Ok

Oh and sorry if i am annoying:)

[mystic tartan]

then
mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot
arch-chroot /mnt

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

it's not that you are annoying it's just that I am really not sure if what I am doing here right now if worth it

bare Arch is not for an average desktop user

[halcyon plume]

Ik

I should had just gone with archinstall lol

Ok i am in

[mystic tartan]

archinstall is buggy as fuck. Why did you not look into CachyOS?

[mystic tartan]

in the chroot?

[halcyon plume]

No

Ok i am in the chroot

[mystic tartan]

ok then follow the steps to install and enable networkmanager: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Installation

[halcyon plume]

Pacman -S NetworkManager ?

[mystic tartan]

yes

as per wiki for wifi you need either wpa_supplicant or iwd as well

[halcyon plume]

Ok now

[mystic tartan]

have you enabled it?

[halcyon plume]

I really start to th8nk arch is not for me

[mystic tartan]

it's just reading and doing

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

bare Arch is so damn nice because it is DYI and makes you understand your system more in detail

if you just want an Operating system that just works I wouldn't recomment it

[halcyon plume]

Lol

Shouod i give up ?

And come back in the future with more experience?

[mystic tartan]

you can push through and learn a lot a long the way or just use a distro that is already setup. The choice is yours

[halcyon plume]

I want to install arch but its to damn hard for me sadl6

🙂

So i will not give up

But just so you know i jave 30m left

[mystic tartan]

perfect :D

that is enough time to setup wifi

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

have you enabled the networkmanager service?

[halcyon plume]

No

Idk how

Just sent me the commands and i will pit hem

Explain them in the end

I eill read them

[mystic tartan]

I don't have to since they are LITERLLAY 2cm down in the wiki

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

click on start/enable to see how that is done

ok ngl I might have been a little harsh

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

the wiki for that actually is quite shit

systemctl enable NetworkManager

[halcyon plume]

Oh ty

[mystic tartan]

only tells you how to start it not how to enable it weird

[halcyon plume]

Done

[mystic tartan]

good thing is to check the Configuration section after installing something

[halcyon plume]

Ok

I do this command ?

[mystic tartan]

READ

[halcyon plume]

Ok

Ok ok

[mystic tartan]

since you already did /etc/hosts in the install (I hope) we are actually done (we don't need to run the command since we haven't changed any configuration files)

[halcyon plume]

I don5 remember doing it

[mystic tartan]

so wifi works now in your install as well

[halcyon plume]

🙂

[mystic tartan]

ok then check cat /etc/hosts

[mystic tartan]

seems good

[halcyon plume]

Ok ok

[mystic tartan]

you can reboot

[halcyon plume]

Ok

Do i unplug the usb ?

[mystic tartan]

yes

[halcyon plume]

Kk

I am booting into arch

[mystic tartan]

you might need to connect to the Wifi in you install now

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

cursive things are stuff you want to change depending on your setup

[halcyon plume]

How do i see if ssid or bssid

[mystic tartan]

Should show in the list

[halcyon plume]

Wait brb

Now ?

I type the name ?

[mystic tartan]

Now you connect

[halcyon plume]

Nmcli device wifi connect HOLLAND ( for exaple ) password password ?

[mystic tartan]

Yes

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[mystic tartan]

But you need to be careful with spaces

Put nmcli device wifi connect "HOLLAND" password 123 instead

[halcyon plume]

I havr to type the wifi password right

?

Fuck. I gtg

Sorry for your time

Can we do it tmr ?

Anyways gn

Sorry 🙂

[mystic tartan]

I have an exam tomorrow but I'll see if I find the time

[halcyon plume]

If you cant i will find some1 else or just wait for you 🙂

[mystic tartan]

or set it up by yourself by checking the wiki, that takes longer but will help you in the long run

[halcyon plume]

Ok

[halcyon plume]

Gl on the exam

[mystic tartan]

ty

[copper sapphire]

how did bro even boot 😭