#distrohopping tips? and how to setup seperate /home partition?

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crystal skiff
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HOW???

viral cosmos
viral cosmos
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shows what title asks here

crystal skiff
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i see

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@viral cosmos can i make a new partition on my current drive that i am talking to you by?

viral cosmos
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not on linux

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you can do it from live usb /gparted

crystal skiff
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wait

viral cosmos
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Do you have more than one drive in your computer? Then you may want to move your /home directory (or other directories) to their own drive. It certainly makes reinstalling much faster when you don't have to backup all of that data and then move it back onto the machine after the reinstall.

WARNING!!!
I am not responsible for lost documents, ...

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crystal skiff
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ill just delete windows

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for arch

viral cosmos
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arch is more complicated for separate home.

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it can be done but u gotta do it carefully all from commandline

crystal skiff
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what should i use for flashing arch to a usb

viral cosmos
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just ventoy ur usb

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then copy the arch iso to it

crystal skiff
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uhh

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how what ventoy?

viral cosmos
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The first 1000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/techhut08211 Ventoy can can add multiple operating systems on a single USB drive!

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO and other formats. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over,...

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that explains it well

crystal skiff
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ok

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thanks

viral cosmos
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for manual arch install. I suggest watching Ermano Ferrari vids

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YT channel : EF linux made simple

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UPDATE: Since the kernel 5.7 the allocate command is not anymore working. Use the dd command instead as explained in the Wiki.

In this video I am installing Arch Linux with a Swap file instead of a Swap partition on a UEFI laptop and KDE. This is the base OS installation with a Swap file, the advantage being a Swap file can be resized and offer...

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there is a part 2 to that vid for desktop

crystal skiff
viral cosmos
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the arch iso doesnt load?

crystal skiff
viral cosmos
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did u watch the video?

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part one, plus part 2

crystal skiff
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Yes, the terminal isn't that one

viral cosmos
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oh.

crystal skiff
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It's really weird. I can send pictures in a few hours.

viral cosmos
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verify the ISO,.. (2nd white ventoy screen)

crystal skiff
viral cosmos
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compare to orginal sha256 sum (should be found on the downloads area of arch site

crystal skiff
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