how do i install arch via arch install to a divided partition

[sonic pilot]

hello there currently i'm desperate to install arch on my new gaming laptop since i cannot wait till next month for a second ssd however i'm extremely scared cause i don't want to delete my windows partition and lose everything so i'm here to ask how can i install arch via archinstall to a divided partition i will use for arch

i already have an iso flashed to my USB

[runic shard]

idk with archinstall

i'd recommend using the wiki

and first in windows shrink the partition

[small smelt]

open disk manager

[flint bridge]

It's better to do it manually.

[primal vigil]

you can make a seperate partiton for it too

if you do it manually

[small smelt]

archinstall is better for a first time user

[flint bridge]

Not if you are dualbooting.

[sonic pilot]

fine i will install arch manually

[runic shard]

follow the wiki

[sonic pilot]

so later on when i install arch i might ask for help

[runic shard]

and in fdisk do not delete partitions

do not make new gpt or mbr tables

[primal vigil]

also partitioning is rlly bad

on the archinstall script, i know that from experiance

[small smelt]

i partitioned everything beforehand so idk

[sonic pilot]

Question should i type every command on the wiki?

[runic shard]

no you use reading and reasoning to decide by yourself what needs to be done

there are some things that are A or B

if you arent sure ask here

[sonic pilot]

my shrinked ssd

[small smelt]

create a partition on the unallocated space

no need to format it

or assign a drive letter

[runic shard]

no

what?

[sonic pilot]

The unallocated space is where i'm gonna install arch

[runic shard]

yeah

you should make the partition from fdisk in the arch iso

[sonic pilot]

What parts should i skip into

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

I flashed arch into a usb

[runic shard]

do everything up to 1.8

[sonic pilot]

That means skip everything to 1.8 or do 1.1 to 1.7

[runic shard]

1.4 to 1.8

you did 1.1 - 1.3 already

[sonic pilot]

Well i have arch booted

[runic shard]

ok

@sonic pilot us keyboard?

[sonic pilot]

Yes

[runic shard]

ok do 1.6

[sonic pilot]

Did it and my system is 64 bits

Should i do 1.7 i mean i used iwctl to connect to my wifi aka the internet

[small smelt]

iwtcl station wlan0 urNetworkName

[sonic pilot]

I already did it

[small smelt]

no need to do 1.7 then

[sonic pilot]

My timezone is incorrect cause everytime i tried yo install linuc in general my windows partition skips 8 hours later my real timezone is a chicago timezone

[small smelt]

google 'windows use utc time'

[sonic pilot]

So i'm gonna say that while installing arch my laptop randomly decided to do a bios update after i enabled secure boot again to go back to windows and fix my timezone problem

[small smelt]

?

[sonic pilot]

I wanted to fix the timezone problem in windows but when i tried to come back into windows via enabling secure boot for some resson i was forced to do a bios update

[small smelt]

is the update causing problems?

[sonic pilot]

It made my laptop a bit slower

[runic shard]

ok so in windows you will need to change a registry key

RealTimeIsUniversal

[sonic pilot]

Just gonna say this but i'm scared of deleting my windows partition or making windows worst

[runic shard]

its ok

you installed it

without deleting it

so 👍

you should change the registry key so the timezone is correct

[sonic pilot]

I did not installed at the end it at the end i got stucked at the timezone part

i'm doing @small smelt solution to fix the timezone

Ok so i'm now here but should i click the DWORD 32 bit value or the QWORD 64 bit value sincr my laptop is 64 bits

@runic shard

[primal vigil]

windows?

in a arch server

strange

[sonic pilot]

i had to fix the timezone in windows just to install arch manually since when i install arch or linux in general the timezone goes to 8 hours more

and arch detected as 9pm depsite it was 1pm when i installed days ago

[runic shard]

dont right click there

right click on the right side after selecting timezoneinformation and do the Dword 32

set the dword to be 1

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[runic shard]

yes

[sonic pilot]

Now what?

i rename it to RealTimeIsUniversal btw

[sonic pilot]

Back to installing arch manually

[runic shard]

and set it to 1?

show a screenshot

[runic shard]

nononono

undo it

ddjjdjsj

[sonic pilot]

how can i undo it?

[runic shard]

change the name back

[sonic pilot]

what should i change the name back to?

[runic shard]

RealTimeIsUniversal should be TimeZoneInformation

then where it says 1 on the right side

that should be RealTimeIsUniversal

and on "1" where it says 0x00000000

it should be 0x00000001

double click and type 1

[sonic pilot]

What should i click on

[runic shard]

make it like this

dont worry about any of the other ones

just make sure its TimeZoneInformation and RealTimeIsUniversal set to 1

[runic shard]

double click on RealTimeIsUniversal

and set to 1

i hope you can do this

send a screenshot when you are done

[sonic pilot]

like this?

[runic shard]

perfect

now reboot

and your hwclock is in UTC from linux

and windows also thinks the hwclock is UTC

[sonic pilot]

My timezone is chicago

[runic shard]

its the installer

idm

[sonic pilot]

Ok so now what should i do

[runic shard]

so you want to install arch

you have empty space on your disk?

lsblk -f pls

[runic shard]

you want to put linux in this middle section

[sonic pilot]

In where (i tooked a picture of this again because the other one was burry imo)

[runic shard]

the empty space you saw in windows

how much ram u got?

[sonic pilot]

How can i see the ram i got

In arch

[runic shard]

pacman -Sy htop
htop

at the top you see ram

[sonic pilot]

Here is my ram

[runic shard]

16 gigs

oke

you can press q to leave the menu

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[runic shard]

wdym

left

anyways do you wanna install?

[sonic pilot]

Yes

I left htop already

[runic shard]

ok we need to make new partitions

enter fdisk

with

fdisk /dev/nvme0n1

[sonic pilot]

You mean In arch

i already made a new partition in windows

That was designed for arch

[runic shard]

dont

windows cant create the partitions properly

[runic shard]

no but you need to shrink the main C from windows

just leave unpartitioned space

[sonic pilot]

shrinked again

[runic shard]

ok now you need to go into the arch installer

[sonic pilot]

I'm back here

[runic shard]

now run
ping google.com

and see if that works

if you see reply just ctrl + c

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[runic shard]

u got network

nice

now run lsblk -l

[runic shard]

ok run fdisk /dev/nvme0n1

[sonic pilot]

What should i click next

[runic shard]

run n

[sonic pilot]

Typed M for a screenshot of this

[runic shard]

then just press enter 1 time

and then type +512M

show output after that

[sonic pilot]

Pressed enter 1 time then typed +512M but

[runic shard]

the sequence is

n
<enter>
+512M

[runic shard]

ok wait

so its

n

enter twice

then +512M

[sonic pilot]

So should i exit fdisk or type N again

[runic shard]

press enter 2x then +512M

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[runic shard]

rn type +512M and enter

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[runic shard]

ok

t
7
1

this

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[runic shard]

no

on new lines

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

Ok so now i changed my linux filesystem to efi sysrem

[runic shard]

ok

now run

n
<press enter>
<press enter>
+16G

[sonic pilot]

Typed enter two times so in here should i run +16G

[runic shard]

no

enter again

then +16G

[sonic pilot]

Sgould i now type +16G in here or enter again

[runic shard]

here +16G

[sonic pilot]

Done it

[runic shard]

now

t
8
swap

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[runic shard]

now run n and press enter until you see the Command (m for help): prompt again

[sonic pilot]

In here

[runic shard]

now run

t
9
23

[sonic pilot]

Did it install on the other unallocatwd partition?

[runic shard]

wdym

yes we creating new partitions

[sonic pilot]

I see

Did this btw

[runic shard]

now run p and show the result

[sonic pilot]

Here

[runic shard]

looks good

run w

[sonic pilot]

Here

[runic shard]

and now that we are back in a shell run

mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p7
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p8
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p9

(they are all separate commands btw)

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[runic shard]

now run these

mount /dev/nvme0n1p9 /mnt
mount /dev/nvme0n1p7 /mnt/boot -m
swapon /dev/nvme0n1p8

and once you done you can follow the wiki from here

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

[sonic pilot]

Well

[runic shard]

run lsblk -f

[runic shard]

it worked

you ran wrong commands but it worked

now run

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware sudo man nano networkmanager grub

all on 1 line

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

You need also base-devel efibootmgr os-prober

[flint bridge]

It should be
pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware nano networkmanager grub efibootmgr os-prober

[sonic pilot]

Should i do it again even trought what speedy told me was succesful?

[flint bridge]

Yeah, just run it again.

[sonic pilot]

What should i run first base-devel efibootmgt os-prober or the pacstrap command?

[flint bridge]

Just run this one
pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware nano networkmanager grub efibootmgr os-prober

[flint bridge]

Looks good.

[sonic pilot]

Did it now what

[flint bridge]

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

[sonic pilot]

Did it now?

[flint bridge]

Run arch-chroot /mnt

[sonic pilot]

What should i write

[flint bridge]

You need to config the installed system now.

[sonic pilot]

How can i do it

[flint bridge]

You want to dualboot, right?

[sonic pilot]

Yes

[flint bridge]

Run mkdir -p /mnt/win-efi

[sonic pilot]

Done

[flint bridge]

Run mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/win-efi

[flint bridge]

Run lsblk -f

[flint bridge]

Run nano /etc/default/grub

[sonic pilot]

Permission is denied

[flint bridge]

Typo, it's nano /etc/default/grub

[sonic pilot]

Now i'm here

[flint bridge]

Remove the # from the last line.

[sonic pilot]

Do i net to press something to edit it?

[flint bridge]

No, just use the arrow key to move around.

[flint bridge]

It's the same as how you do it in windows.

[sonic pilot]

I removed now what

[flint bridge]

Now save the file by pressing ctrl+o and Enter and ctrl+x

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Okay, run cat /etc/default/grub

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Run grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB --recheck

[sonic pilot]

Now what?

[flint bridge]

Looks good, now run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[sonic pilot]

Did it now what

[flint bridge]

Looks good, run systemctl enable NetworkManager

[sonic pilot]

Done

[flint bridge]

Add a host name run echo "Spygear69" > /etc/hostname you can change Spygear69 to something else.

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[flint bridge]

It's the name you want to give the laptop/system?

[sonic pilot]

Yes

[flint bridge]

Then just run it.

[sonic pilot]

Did it now what?

[flint bridge]

Check cat /etc/hostname

[sonic pilot]

Yes

[flint bridge]

Looks good, run hwclock --systohc

[sonic pilot]

Done now?

[flint bridge]

Okay, what is the system languge that you want to use?

Is it English or something else?

[sonic pilot]

Spanish but i want my keyboard to be a english keyboard

[flint bridge]

Run echo "es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Typo, run it as you see it echo "es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen

[sonic pilot]

There

[flint bridge]

You didn't type "

[sonic pilot]

There

[flint bridge]

Okay, check cat /etc/locale.gen

[sonic pilot]

It is

[flint bridge]

Looks good, run echo "LANG=es_ES.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

[sonic pilot]

Would that make my keyboard go into spanish to the point i can type ñ

[flint bridge]

No, that's to make the system use the spanish as the main languge.

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

No, you are missing a " run ctrl+c and try again echo "LANG=es_ES.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Looks good, run locale-gen

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Good, run echo "KEYMAP=us" > /etc/vconsole.conf

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Typo, you are missing > type it again echo "KEYMAP=us" > /etc/vconsole.conf

[sonic pilot]

Done

[flint bridge]

Good, run passwd and type some password.

[sonic pilot]

Created a password

[flint bridge]

Good, run useradd -mG wheel alain

[sonic pilot]

Any typo?

[flint bridge]

Good, run passwd alain and give it some password.

[sonic pilot]

Password was created

[flint bridge]

Good, run EDITOR=nano visudo

[sonic pilot]

Before doing it do i have more stuff to do in the iso

[flint bridge]

No, why?

[sonic pilot]

Just curious cause i don't wanna be on the installer all night and having to continue tomorrow

How many commands do i have left?

[flint bridge]

It's not going to be long at the moment.

[sonic pilot]

I see

[sonic pilot]

I did the command btw

[flint bridge]

Go down in the file and find this # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL line.

[sonic pilot]

Here

[flint bridge]

Okay, remove the # from it.

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Okay, save the file ctrl+o and Enter and ctrl+x

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Good, run echo "127.0.1.1 alain.localdomain alain" >> /etc/hosts

Make sure it's correct first.

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[flint bridge]

Typo, you need the >> like echo "127.0.1.1 alain.localdomain alain" >> /etc/hosts

[sonic pilot]

Is this any good?

[flint bridge]

Okay, hit enter

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Check cat /etc/hosts

[sonic pilot]

Here

[flint bridge]

Looks good, run lspci -k | grep -A 3 -E "(VGA|3D)"

[sonic pilot]

Cannot find the | bar

[flint bridge]

Okay, what gpu do you have, is it Nvidia?

[sonic pilot]

Yes

[flint bridge]

Okay, what Desktop Environment do you want to install?

[sonic pilot]

Kde plasma

[flint bridge]

Run pacman -S --noconfirm nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings plasma-desktop sddm

[sonic pilot]

Good newd i have a keyboard with the | bar is from my old gaming pc

[flint bridge]

Good, you can run this lspci -k | grep -A 3 -E "(VGA|3D)"

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[flint bridge]

Looks good.

[sonic pilot]

I runned it now what?

[flint bridge]

Run pacman -S --noconfirm nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-prime nvidia-utils nvidia-settings plasma-desktop sddm

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[flint bridge]

Typo

[flint bridge]

Correct it
pacman -S --noconfirm nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-prime nvidia-utils nvidia-settings plasma-desktop sddm

[sonic pilot]

Fone can i now press enter

[flint bridge]

Hit Enter

[sonic pilot]

It finished

[flint bridge]

Good, run pacman -S --noconfirm amd-ucode nvidia-prime pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

[sonic pilot]

Is this good

[flint bridge]

Typo

[sonic pilot]

I don't see a typo

[flint bridge]

Fix it pacman -S --noconfirm amd-ucode nvidia-prime pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

[sonic pilot]

Is this any good

[flint bridge]

Typo

[sonic pilot]

Fix it can i now press enter?

[flint bridge]

Good, hit enter.

[sonic pilot]

Is over now what

[flint bridge]

Good, run mkinitcpio -P

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[flint bridge]

Yeah, hist enter.

[sonic pilot]

Did it

[flint bridge]

Good, run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[sonic pilot]

Did i do it good

[flint bridge]

Good, run systemctl enable sddm

[sonic pilot]

Now?

[flint bridge]

Good, run cat /etc/fstab

[sonic pilot]

Here

[flint bridge]

All done now.

[sonic pilot]

What should i do now?

[flint bridge]

Run exit

[sonic pilot]

Ran exit

[flint bridge]

Run umount -R /mnt

[sonic pilot]

Done

[flint bridge]

Now reboot reboot and remove the USB live iso.

[sonic pilot]

Done i installed arch

[flint bridge]

Yeah, that's Plasma (KDE)

[flint bridge]

Hit ctrl+alt+F4

[sonic pilot]

Did it now its frozen

[flint bridge]

Hit ctrl+alt+F5

[sonic pilot]

Here

[flint bridge]

Login there, type alain and hit enter then type the password then hit enter.

[sonic pilot]

Now i'm here

[flint bridge]

Run sudo pacman -S --noconfirm kde-utilities kde-applications

[sonic pilot]

Like this?

[flint bridge]

Hit Enter.

[sonic pilot]

I did it and it said i had errors and that the packages weren't installed

[flint bridge]

Connect to the internet first.

[sonic pilot]

How?

[flint bridge]

Are you using Wifi or Ethernet cable?

[sonic pilot]

I use wifi

[flint bridge]

Run sudo nmtui

[sonic pilot]

What option should i press enter on?

[flint bridge]

The second one then find your wifi

[sonic pilot]

Connected

[flint bridge]

Okay, run sudo pacman -S --noconfirm kde-utilities kde-applications

[sonic pilot]

I pressed accept to exit and can i do it in here?

[sonic pilot]

Is done

[flint bridge]

Now reboot sudo reboot

[sonic pilot]

Wair a second is still the same

[flint bridge]

Looks good. You can open the terminal.

[sonic pilot]

Ok so i waked up and i'm going to the hospital for a meeting but while on the go

I'm gonna ask you how can i enable the multilib so i can install apps like wine or steam

[flint bridge]

Edit the pacman config sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

[sonic pilot]

Should i do a sudo pacman -Syu befero doing all of this?

[flint bridge]

No.

Just run sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

[runic shard]

no only after

[sonic pilot]

Got it

[sonic pilot]

Question how can i install the discover store?

[flint bridge]

Open a terminal and run pacman -Qs discover

[flint bridge]

Run sudo pacman -S --noconfirm plasma

[sonic pilot]

Question how can i make sure git is installed on arch since for some reason i feel like i didn't install it

[flint bridge]

Just run sudo pacman -S --noconfirm git go noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji

[runic shard]

why go?

[flint bridge]

To setup YAY later.

[sonic pilot]

it worked

so does that mean i have git installed?

[flint bridge]

Yeah, check git -v

[sonic pilot]

Yes i have git installed

[flint bridge]

Okay, does discover work?

[sonic pilot]

yes it works

[flint bridge]

Did you enable Multilib?

[sonic pilot]

yes

[flint bridge]

Good, everything works, right?

[sonic pilot]

yes

[sonic pilot]

best screenshot tool for arch

[runic shard]

depends on window manager

prob use the kde one on kde

[flint bridge]

Plasma has one built in.

[runic shard]

but on hyprland i do some sort of grim "$(slurp)"

[flint bridge]

It's Plasma not Hyprland.

[sonic pilot]

name?

[runic shard]

i know

[runic shard]

spectacle

try press win + shift + s

[flint bridge]

Then why grim "$(slurp)"?

[flint bridge]

Just press

• Print Screen -> full screen

• Shift + Print Screen -> select area

• Alt + Print Screen -> active window

[sonic pilot]

been installing xpadneo for arch and my question is should i copy the later commands like sudo bluetoothctl inside the folder in the terminal (cause i did a cd xpadneo or nah outside the folder

[flint bridge]

What xpadneo does?

[flint bridge]

You need to install it from the AUR.

But first setup YAY.
Run cd /tmp/ && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay && cd yay/ && makepkg -si --noconfirm

[sonic pilot]

Connect a xbox controller to linux

[sonic pilot]

I installed yay already

Via the github https://github.com/Jguer/yay

[flint bridge]

Okay, just run yay -S --noconfirm xpadneo-dkms

[sonic pilot]

I installed xpadneo via a git clone https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo.git

From here

How can i uninstalled

[flint bridge]

Run whereis xpadneo?

[sonic pilot]

sorry for the late respond i was in school

[flint bridge]

It's not installed in your system, so just run yay -S --noconfirm xpadneo-dkms

[flint bridge]

How old are you?

[sonic pilot]

18 graduating depsite not going to college due to bad grades

[flint bridge]

Good.

[flint bridge]

What do you want to do after school?

[sonic pilot]

programming and other stuff related to technology

but it shouldn't matter now what matters is xpadneo

[flint bridge]

Great.

[flint bridge]

Just run that command.

[sonic pilot]

did it already

[flint bridge]

Make the terminal big so it shows all the output.

[flint bridge]

Run sudo mkinitcpio -P

[flint bridge]

You have installed it, just reboot and test it.

[sonic pilot]

how can i test it?

[flint bridge]

Try to connect the controler.

[sonic pilot]

is not working

[flint bridge]

Is it Bluethoot?

[sonic pilot]

yes

[sonic pilot]

Just gonna say i wanna install xpadneo again since you aren't familiar with it might ask for a guide in the linux gaming server

[flint bridge]

Check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad
Then scroll to the xpadneo section.

[sonic pilot]

anyway i can uninstall this

is a dependenxy for xpadneo and i want to uninstalled since i delete the xpadneo folder but i can't

i mean how can i uninstall dkms linux-headers bluez bluez-utils

[flint bridge]

Just run sudo pacman -Rns dkms linux-headers bluez bluez-utils && sudo minitcpio -P

[sonic pilot]

did not work

[flint bridge]

Because they are things that depend on them.

[sonic pilot]

Then what should i do?

[flint bridge]

Why are you trying to remove them?

[sonic pilot]

Because i wanted to remove the dependencies i wanted to install xpadneo

But yeah i might not do it

[sonic pilot]

question did i removed the dkms linux-headers bluez bluez-utils stuff

[sonic pilot]

i tried to install sudo pacman -S dkms linux-headers bluez bluez-utils once again and this happened

at this point i don't know what to do i feel like i want to uninstall arch depsite i don't wanna break my pc

[sonic pilot]

What should i do @flint bridge

[sonic pilot]

Just going to say i uninstalled arch @flint bridge because i wanted to reinstalled without weird things installed

I have 2 question and those are

1. How can i delete the grub boot option

And 2. If i want to install arch again should i do it the same as last time?

[runic shard]

1. Eliminar option ....

and you choose the grub one to delete it

and you can delete the 512Mb partition that is the arch boot partition\

then you can expand your C: to make it the rest of the empty space

[sonic pilot]

question i might install arch manually once again and the question is should i make a new forum post that is dedicated to instally arch manually or just follow the steps i had in here

[runic shard]

idk if you want to restart maybe just do it in this post

but dont follow previous instructions

[sonic pilot]

like what instructions?

[runic shard]

idk you mentioned sth about old steps