génerál

[brisk gale]

so we gotta get internet

you have wifi right

[light granite]

yeah

it has a wifi card

[brisk gale]

awesome sauce

[gilded fiber]

lg being a linux fan for 2 years finally touching a linux system

[brisk gale]

so we need to use a tool called iwd

[opaque salmon]

real

[brisk gale]

run dat for me

[light granite]

my first os was kali

:/

[brisk gale]

interesting choice

[opaque salmon]

LMAO

[gilded fiber]

wow hecker

[light granite]

iwd??

[brisk gale]

yes

[opaque salmon]

i mean sure it's debian-based but lmao

[light granite]

i thought it was for regular ppl

[brisk gale]

o na

[opaque salmon]

i once wiped my hard drive trying to install kali

so you're good

[light granite]

😭

i used virtual machines

[brisk gale]

have you ran iwd yet

[light granite]

"zsh:correct 'iwd' to 'iw' [nyae]?"

[brisk gale]

Wtf

[light granite]

😭

[brisk gale]

am i tweaking

hold

iwctl

[light granite]

bro is not a femboy

[brisk gale]

sry

[light granite]

ohhhh

[brisk gale]

they musta changed it

[light granite]

i ran that yes

uh

[brisk gale]

now it should bring you to another command line called iwd

am i wrong

[light granite]

yes

iwd

[brisk gale]

okay SO

we need to get a list of stations in your computer

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

a station is just a wifi capable network adapter

so ur wifi card for example

[light granite]

hm

[brisk gale]

run station list

if you have the most run of the mill system ever there should just be one

named wlan0

[light granite]

yes

wkan 0 disconnected

wlan*

[brisk gale]

okay so we need to put it in scanning mode

so it can see your wifi networks

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

run station wlan0 scan

[gilded fiber]

nitro

[brisk gale]

and then run station wlan0 get-networks to get that list of wifi networks

[light granite]

yes i see my wifi now

[brisk gale]

now you connect to it by uh

you might see a pattern here

[light granite]

pattern?

[brisk gale]

station wlan0 connect <wifi name>

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

you might have to wrap it in quotes if it has spaces

but once you run it

it will ask for your wifi password

[light granite]

ye

[brisk gale]

once you enter it you will be connected

[light granite]

so i enter the passphrase aka password?

[brisk gale]

preferrably

[light granite]

and

[brisk gale]

das it

[light granite]

im bakc on iwd

idk if its connected or not

[brisk gale]

type quit you're done

or exit

i forgot

[light granite]

quit

[brisk gale]

ping a website

[light granite]

alr bet

[craggy crag]

Hello

[brisk gale]

Hey bud

[light granite]

yess

[brisk gale]

so now with internet

this is the second to last command you will ever have to run

[light granite]

yea bet

[brisk gale]

in the install env

your next task is to run archinstall and simply follow the instructions

on your screen

[light granite]

alr bet

[brisk gale]

the interface should be easy enough to understand

[light granite]

yeah, its fetching

[gilded fiber]

fetching

[brisk gale]

but maybe run each category by me idk if they changed anything

[light granite]

alr bet

[gilded fiber]

lg you should’ve installed it all manually

[brisk gale]

that would be the easier option tbh

for me at least

[light granite]

some interface came up,

[light granite]

its not my pc

ill install it manually on my virtual machine

[gilded fiber]

why

or how exactly

[brisk gale]

to know exactly what goes down

[light granite]

holdup

will this install arch to the comp disk or do i have to run it live everytime?

[brisk gale]

you're in control of what drive it installs to

archinstall asks you

[light granite]

alr bet

[brisk gale]

but no you do not have to run it live everytime

[light granite]

oh phew

im using my own pen drive smh

what file system do i chose in partitioning

[brisk gale]

ext4

[light granite]

ext4, xfs,f2fs etc

oh

[brisk gale]

i think it gives you a partition layout?

by default

[opaque salmon]

reiserfs

wait does linux even have reiserfs still

[brisk gale]

bare minimum you need a boot and a root partition

[light granite]

missing configs

brh

[brisk gale]

if you have low memory and a solid state drive then you should also have a swap partition

[light granite]

i need a root pass or 1 user w sudo privillage

[brisk gale]

Bro what

[light granite]

eh ill create a user

[brisk gale]

no no

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

that literally should not happen

[light granite]

what the

and then there is disc config

[brisk gale]

are you not in the arch live env

[light granite]

im in archinstall

[brisk gale]

you kinda just auto login as root

OH

yeah you need to make a user account

forgot

[light granite]

😭

how bout disk config

[brisk gale]

isn't that your partition layout

[light granite]

i messed ts up when installing kali

[brisk gale]

you should probably do that

[light granite]

idk i wanna format everything

[brisk gale]

ok well it's gonna make a new one for you

or at least you have the option to

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

yep mhm

[brisk gale]

yurp

a linux swap partition serves the same purpose as something like the pagefile/swapfile on windows

[unborn cedar]

@brisk gale Congrats! You're now 110 years old!

[brisk gale]

it is virtual memory on yo disk

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

helps when you don't have much memory to begin with

becomes useless after like 8 GB to me

[light granite]

so what do i select?
use a best effort default partition layout
manual partitioning
pre-mounted config

[light granite]

the pc has 4 gigs of ram iirc

[brisk gale]

let's see what archinstall will give you

use the default and tell me what it makes

[light granite]

alr bet

so uh im in a menu type sh

[brisk gale]

just give me the sizes and types of the partitions it made

[light granite]

alr holdup

976 MB (its MiB but ill use MB)
461 GB
3.8 GB

[brisk gale]

so i assume that 900 MB one is the boot partition

[light granite]

how do i check?

[brisk gale]

uhhhhhh

if it shows labels for the partitions it should say EFI System

or it could be marked as bootable

i don't know what the archinstall partition editor looks like

[light granite]

lemme type

primary Fat32 /dev/sda1 976MB boot,esp
primary ext4 /dev/sda2 461GB (blank for some reason)
primary linux-swap /dev/sda3 3.8GB swap

[brisk gale]

wait this is goated

[light granite]

there r also some other valuses

[brisk gale]

although i don't really like how small the boot partition is

i have ran out of space on the boot partition before with only 1 gig

[light granite]

damn

[brisk gale]

oh nvm .

i tweakin

mine actually is 1 gig right now

you're fine

[light granite]

😭

bet

[brisk gale]

i like how it gave you a swap partition too

just the right size too i'd say

[light granite]

ye bwt

[brisk gale]

it might just be copying the amount of ram you have available

[light granite]

do i click the hard drive?

[light granite]

oh what

[brisk gale]

whar

[brisk gale]

yeah that's what most people do

[light granite]

when i click on the hdd it shows filesystem

[brisk gale]

uhhhhh don't click anything right now idk what that is

[light granite]

oh

it shows ext4,xfs,f2fs, and btrfs

[brisk gale]

the blank partition is your root partition

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

but your partition layout looks good

confirm your choices

[light granite]

uh

[brisk gale]

maaan what did you click on

☹️

[light granite]

im back

[light granite]

on dis menu

[brisk gale]

say yes to whatever

[light granite]

yes??

there is no yes br

[brisk gale]

what is the closest thing to yes you see

[light granite]

my hdd name and my usb drive name

[brisk gale]

🧐

[light granite]

i can click on both tho

[brisk gale]

i didn't know you had a second drive in this computer

[light granite]

noo

it only has 1 drive

[brisk gale]

oh what

[light granite]

and there is the usb

[brisk gale]

bro at this point just send a picture of the screen 😭

i have no idea what you're talking about anymore

[light granite]

yea i am

gime a sec

dk if u can read it but the cam is ass

[brisk gale]

is there any way to write the partition layout

like a write button

[light granite]

well i can click the drive

[brisk gale]

what happens when you click it

[light granite]

filesystem

[brisk gale]

rly

that's it

[light granite]

lemme send

[brisk gale]

ext4

[light granite]

bet

should i create a separate partition for home?? (its asking)

[brisk gale]

i never got the appeal of that

no

[light granite]

alr ima click no

[brisk gale]

Wtf

where did the swap partition go

[light granite]

idk

[brisk gale]

okay at least i understand it now

go back to partitioning

[light granite]

yea

[light granite]

i click the highlited one?

[brisk gale]

yea

[light granite]

bet

disc configuration type

[brisk gale]

default i think

[light granite]

use a best-effort default parttn layout
manual parttn
pre-mounted cinf

alr

[light granite]

this menu again??

[brisk gale]

i think

just press escape

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

should bring you to this place again

[light granite]

and now back here

[brisk gale]

do you have a swap partition now

[light granite]

wha

[brisk gale]

oh bruh

ext4...

[light granite]

would you like rto bla bla bla /home

😭

[brisk gale]

no

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

literally have no idea what it's doing

[light granite]

this menu

[brisk gale]

okay thank god

is there a swap partition there

[somber nymph]

damn its been like 2 hours

or 3

[light granite]

way better than trying and troubleshooting kali, mint, xubuntu and ubuntu server

[light granite]

i dont see swap partition

js that menu

[brisk gale]

so frustrating for whar

🤬

[light granite]

LMAO

i should ask gpt

[brisk gale]

no no

[light granite]

bru

😭

[brisk gale]

we woulda been done if i had just walked you though the manual install process

being so real

[light granite]

alr

(how long would it take?)

[brisk gale]

not long

[light granite]

oh bet

[brisk gale]

like 30 minutes or something

just get out of archinstall

[somber nymph]

ngl it might be better if u guys vc or smth and algae streams

[brisk gale]

perhaps

[light granite]

holdup

we could try graphical

cuz now i need to create a user

[brisk gale]

pls

[light granite]

alr

😭

abort?

[brisk gale]

yes

abandon ship

[light granite]

im on cli now

[brisk gale]

we going manual

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

so i guess we already know /dev/sda is the drive we want to install arch on

run cfdisk /dev/sda

it should just bring you straight to the partition editor

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

if there are any partitions still there

which i assume there are

delete them all

[light granite]

yeah

like all?

[brisk gale]

every single one

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

create a 1G partition

and set the label to EFI System

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

the first label in the list

at the very top

[light granite]

u mean partition type?

[brisk gale]

yes

[light granite]

bet

and next

[brisk gale]

create a 4G partition of type Linux swap

[light granite]

what do i set that as?

[broken onyx]

[light granite]

type

[brisk gale]

uh

uhhhhhh

[light granite]

oh

[somber nymph]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1293211327795429528/1337130920603418737/bacoon.gif

[light granite]

took a while to find but found it

[brisk gale]

yeah

now your last partition

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

when you go to create it it should fill the size box with the rest of the space you have

this is fine

[somber nymph]

what country does carlton live in

[brisk gale]

🇺🇸

[somber nymph]

oki

lol

[brisk gale]

it should also have a type of Linux filesystem by default

this is also fine

[light granite]

i js create a new one and leave the partition size?

[brisk gale]

yea

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

just create it and leave everything

[light granite]

skullyshook

[brisk gale]

the defaults are okay for this one

[somber nymph]

mb my cat sat on my keyboard

[brisk gale]

and then write the partition table to disk

[somber nymph]

???

[light granite]

i ckick write

[brisk gale]

ya

type out the word yes as confirmation

https://tenor.com/oD5tumIpwsE.gif

[light granite]

ohhhh

now i quit

[brisk gale]

yah

now we format tha partitions

[light granite]

bet

im on the cli

[brisk gale]

sda1 shuld be boot, sda2 is swap, sda3 is root

boot part should be formatted as fat32

mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1

[light granite]

bet

[light granite]

and

[brisk gale]

swap space has a special filesystem

mkswap /dev/sda2

[light granite]

what should by output be

if i did it correctly?

[brisk gale]

🧐

[light granite]

setting up swapspace version 1 sm sm

[brisk gale]

ohhhh

well generally

if it doesn't say it failed then it succeeded

🧠

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

so i guess we're good then

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

finally we just format sda3 as regular ext4

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

[light granite]

done

[brisk gale]

now we mount!

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

there should be a folder made for you called /mnt already

we need to mount the root partition there

[light granite]

😭

[brisk gale]

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

[light granite]

done

[brisk gale]

now we need to make some folders in this partition

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

use mkdir to make /mnt/boot

and then /mnt/boot/efi

[light granite]

😭

what exactly should i type

[brisk gale]

it's easier than you think

just put the two together

mkdir /mnt/boot

[light granite]

alr bet done

[brisk gale]

and then do the same thing for /mnt/boot/efi

[light granite]

mkdir /mnt/boot/efi?

[brisk gale]

yeppers

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

see you're figuring it out

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

now this next one

[light granite]

yeah 😭

[brisk gale]

mount /dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot/efi

[light granite]

uhh

yeah, my brain is haywire

[brisk gale]

hint: remove the word "to" from that sentence

that's how i like to think of it

[light granite]

😭

alr

[brisk gale]

did you get it

[light granite]

i did

[brisk gale]

awesome sauce

[light granite]

;-;

[brisk gale]

now thankfully our swap partition doesn't need to be mounted anywhere specific

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

just run swapon /dev/sda2

[light granite]

done

[brisk gale]

this was the hardest part of the install

😃

[light granite]

wiat wat

[brisk gale]

literally everything is smooth sailing from here

[light granite]

😭

[brisk gale]

it's just editing configuration files after this next step

[light granite]

oh bet

[brisk gale]

and this next step is a command called pacstrap

[light granite]

for pacman, i'm assuming?

[brisk gale]

it's to set your drive up for installing packages through pacman yes

[light granite]

ohh ic

[brisk gale]

so just type out pacstrap -K /mnt and DO NOT PRESS ENTER

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

we need to give it a list of packages after this

and i'll explain to you why we need to install each one

[light granite]

alr

[light granite]

k as a capital K im assuming?

[brisk gale]

yes

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

so after you have that typed out then type out these package names i'm bouta give you

make sure they are each separated with spaces

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

base is for core system utilities

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

to install AUR packages, we need to build them first because they do not come prepackaged

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

so we need to install base-devel

[light granite]

instead of base, i write that?

[brisk gale]

no write both

[light granite]

alr bet

[brisk gale]

and then the linux kernel is actually distributed as a package

which is very awesome

the package is predictably called linux

[light granite]

we don't have kernel yet??

[brisk gale]

we have nothing on your drive

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

so far you should have base, base-devel, and linux typed out

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

now for the next

linux-firmware is a package with a bunch of firmware for common devices

you should have this

basically a bunch of drivers in windows terms

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

this basically completes a base system but we need a little more than that

[light granite]

ye

[brisk gale]

the grub package i'm sure you've heard of before

it's grub

[light granite]

yes the grub menu

[brisk gale]

need that to boot

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

but we also need efibootmgr

for EFI systems

like you have

grub depends on it so it can install properly

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

second to last package is networkmanager

[light granite]

ohh that

skullyshook

i have ptsd from it

[brisk gale]

so we can have internet once we've booted into our system

gives us a MUCH nicer interface for managing internet

[light granite]

yea

[brisk gale]

i get to that when the time comes

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

and our very last package is a text editor of some sort

how new are you to editing text in the terminal

[light granite]

probably

uh a week

[brisk gale]

what program

[light granite]

huh

wdym prgram

[brisk gale]

what did you use to edit text in the terminal

[light granite]

shell?

[brisk gale]

ye

[light granite]

ohh

we need shell

[brisk gale]

uh no

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

the base package installs a shell for us

that would be bash

we need a text editor right now

[light granite]

yeah ig

[brisk gale]

since you're relatively new to text editing in the terminal

your last package is nano

[light granite]

i'm sorta getting lost here

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

so just to confirm

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

your package list is

base base-devel linux linux-firmware grub efibootmgr networkmanager nano

[light granite]

yes

[brisk gale]

and all together

the full command is

pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware grub efibootmgr networkmanager nano

[somber nymph]

im now back at my grandma's and you guys still haven't finished

[brisk gale]

we almost there

[somber nymph]

unreal

[light granite]

yep

[brisk gale]

press enter and wait while your new system downloads and installs

😃

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

👴

[light granite]

i'm naive to linux :<

[brisk gale]

it's 4 AM for me rn

[light granite]

wait what

skullyshook

[brisk gale]

but i'm basically all in on this dude's arch install

so i gotta finish it

[light granite]

😭

[somber nymph]

yeah

[light granite]

u gotta sleep man

[somber nymph]

to deep into it to back out

id like to see you guys finish soon

[brisk gale]

your system will literally not be bootable if i just leave you here

[somber nymph]

(not in a sus way)

[light granite]

oh

[light granite]

i don't understand how its sus

[somber nymph]

sure

[brisk gale]

oh god i just realized

i have to teach you vim for like one part of the install

😨

[light granite]

(whats a vim)

[brisk gale]

this text editor

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

very esoteric

it was designed to keep your hands on the keyboard at all times

so you can imagine how strange the binds are

[light granite]

skull_gone

[brisk gale]

as a result

but hey where are we in the install right now

[light granite]

close

not that

wait what

176 files??

skullyshook

[brisk gale]

176 packages

[light granite]

2/176 completed

[somber nymph]

basically 176*100

real

[brisk gale]

a base system is like under a gig i think

[gilded fiber]

you’ve been doing this for how long now

[somber nymph]

approx 3 hours

[light granite]

4-5 days

[gilded fiber]

just use mint at this point vro

[light granite]

lost count

[somber nymph]

(carlton helping)

[brisk gale]

he has had a couple issues with debian based distros

[light granite]

mint 'hangs'/freezes

[brisk gale]

i may have forgotten a crucial step .

[gilded fiber]

arch based distro

[brisk gale]

and you may or may not get lucky here

[light granite]

💀

[gilded fiber]

if you really want arch

[somber nymph]

🪑
🏃‍♂️

carlton pfp do be lookin like

[light granite]

oh fyck

[brisk gale]

it's entirely dependent on if your system clock is synced

[somber nymph]

😬

[light granite]

i tried to remove the cmos battery

couldn't tear it down

so the bios didn't reset

[brisk gale]

because pacman verifies each package with a digital signature

[light granite]

the bios time is synced

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

if the time is incorrect then it will fail

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

THANKFULLY if it does fail then it keeps the packages you already downloaded

[light granite]

oh

phew

[brisk gale]

so in that event we can just run one command and run the pacstrap command again

pro tip you can press the up arrow to go through your past commands

[gilded fiber]

so pro

[light granite]

ik that thankfully

(ty mc)

[brisk gale]

i will just tell you the command right now

just in case

timedatectl set-ntp true

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

tells the system to ask a time server for the current time

every few secondz

for accurate time reading

but yea run that if it fails to verify signatures

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

we wait patiently for pacstrap's results

[light granite]

yes

[strong cloak]

lg yapping

whats new

[light granite]

LMAO

[light granite]

all of them r downloaded

[brisk gale]

is it installing them now

[light granite]

oop

failed to isntall

[brisk gale]

yep

[light granite]

to new root

[brisk gale]

sync your time

[light granite]

bet

[somber nymph]

did kozun just say lg yapping and left

lg made kozun left for not replying

[light granite]

😭

[light granite]

dne

[brisk gale]

run the pacstrap command again

remember up arrow

[light granite]

ohh

and

wait

is it downloading them alll??

or installing?

[brisk gale]

downloads then verifies then installs

they're all downloaded already

[light granite]

ohh

running build hook kms 💀

wtf

oh

it sayys warninngs

[brisk gale]

we good

normal

[light granite]

possibly missing formware for module (sm shi)

[brisk gale]

it is normal

[light granite]

alr

now were in

the cli

back again

[brisk gale]

okay so our next step

we need to generate something called an fstab file

[light granite]

alr bet

[brisk gale]

this tells linux what drives it needs to mount when it boots

[light granite]

ye

[brisk gale]

we use the genfstab command to get a list of mounted partitions on a drive

and then we send that info to a file

[light granite]

oh boy

[brisk gale]

it is /mnt/etc/fstab

it's one command though

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

it looks like

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

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

we use the -U switch to identify the drives by ID instead of by name

helps if you change drives or something

[light granite]

do i fr have to use the ">>"" ?

[brisk gale]

yea that's the switch for sending console output to a file

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

because by default genfstab just spits out the fstab to the console

[light granite]

yes done

[brisk gale]

okay now we need to actually get into the system we just installed

[light granite]

ohh interesting

[brisk gale]

run arch-chroot /mnt

[light granite]

ayes

done

[brisk gale]

cli should look a little different now does it

[light granite]

yeah

[brisk gale]

you're in the system

there's more we need to do here

[light granite]

oh bet

[brisk gale]

before we mess anything up, set a password for the root account

with the passwd command

[light granite]

bet

passwd (my password) ?

[brisk gale]

no

just passwd

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

it will ask for the new password

[light granite]

alr

yes done

[brisk gale]

okay from here it's just one line commands and configuration files

[light granite]

alr bet

[brisk gale]

this is the first time you'll be using the nano text editor i think

it has "sane" keybinds

[light granite]

oh damn?

huh

[brisk gale]

like ctrl c to copy text lol

it will show them at the bottom

very easy to use

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

so our first file to edit

we need to set a host name for this computer

run nano /etc/hostname

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

now the host name can really be anything

[light granite]

im on some gui?

[brisk gale]

linux just asks that you keep it lowercase

no spaces

[brisk gale]

yah

[light granite]

alr

so i js type the name

[brisk gale]

i usually just set my hostname to arch

[light granite]

ima put my friend's name

[brisk gale]

that would be his user account name

[light granite]

well, its his lapto

😭

[brisk gale]

okay

sure

[light granite]

alr bet

[brisk gale]

there should be a keybind at the bottom for saving the file

[light granite]

uh

[brisk gale]

i think ctrl is represented by an up arrow

^

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

what is the keybind

[light granite]

im searchin

[brisk gale]

it's either save or write

same thing

[light granite]

ohhh

it has write out tho

[brisk gale]

same thing 2

[light granite]

alr bet

[brisk gale]

it will probably ask you where you want to save it

but it fills out the right path

just press enter

[light granite]

write to file

yes

now i exit?

[brisk gale]

yes

[light granite]

im on the cli

[low lynx]

Hi

[unborn cedar]

@low lynx Congrats! You're now 2 years old!

[brisk gale]

now we need to get your locale done

[light granite]

ye

[brisk gale]

run nano /etc/locale.gen

you will need to do some searching

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

yeah cuz this file already exists

it has a bunch of locales

that are all commented out

you need to find the right one according to your area

[light granite]

im on the gnu nano

[brisk gale]

i have no idea what your country's locale code is though

[light granite]

yeah

js any country will be fine

[brisk gale]

for me it's en_US.UTF-8

for american english

[light granite]

ohh

ill type that then

[brisk gale]

don't type it

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

you need to actually find it in that list

it's alphabetized

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

and then just delete the hashtag that it starts with

to uncomment the line

[light granite]

the gnu nano thing is empty

[brisk gale]

😨

did you type out the right path

[light granite]

im sure i did?

[brisk gale]

/etc/locale.gen

[light granite]

so i js quit and type it in again?

[brisk gale]

yeah

nano /etc/locale.gen

[light granite]

OHH

its locale

not locate

😭

[brisk gale]

brah

okay find en_US.UTF-8 and uncomment the line

[light granite]

what am i looking at here?

[brisk gale]

a list of locales

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

by deleting the hashtag it starts with

[light granite]

so basically delete the # of en_US.UTF-8?

[brisk gale]

yes

[light granite]

Dne

[brisk gale]

write and quit

[light granite]

write out basically?

[brisk gale]

yah

[light granite]

shyt

i accidentally pressed ctrl v

[brisk gale]

you have nothing in your clipboard

but i hope nothing happened

[light granite]

yeah

[brisk gale]

we should be good

[light granite]

yeah

im back on cli

[brisk gale]

run locale-gen and you should see the locale you uncommented in the console

[light granite]

en_US.UTF-8

[brisk gale]

good

[light granite]

and some other ine

[brisk gale]

oh ?

what did it print out

[light granite]

es_SV.UTF-8

[brisk gale]

wtf lol

it's okay

[light granite]

should be fine?

yea

[brisk gale]

i guess you have spanish on your computer now

it don't matter because this next step we set the language we actually use

[light granite]

😭

bet

[brisk gale]

run nano /etc/locale.conf

[somber nymph]

4

[brisk gale]

notice the conf

[light granite]

oh sh

[brisk gale]

🤪

[light granite]

huh

[brisk gale]

just run the command mang

[light granite]

empty screen?

[brisk gale]

good

this is a new file

[light granite]

ohhhhhhhh

i was so worried

[brisk gale]

type exactly this

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

to use english

[light granite]

alr

done

[brisk gale]

write quit

[light granite]

doub;e checkd

[light granite]

write??

ohh

yes back on cli

[brisk gale]

that was the last config file you had to edit

now we gotta set yo timezone

[light granite]

oh phew

[brisk gale]

just to make this easier

what is your timezone exactly

[light granite]

lemme google (its 4:08 pm)

[brisk gale]

trying to figure out what that is for arch

[light granite]

ohh

[brisk gale]

okay so

i need you to start typing this out and not press enter

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/

[light granite]

oh alr

[brisk gale]

if you press tab it should show you a huge list of regions

my guess is that you are in the Asia region

[light granite]

yeah

[austere tiger]

hello

[brisk gale]

so asia is listed there then

[light granite]

oh hi

[light granite]

alr

[brisk gale]

type out Asia/

and then tab again

let's see if this works

[light granite]

no maldives

[brisk gale]

dangerous

[light granite]

ofc is forgotten

[brisk gale]

i was thinking your zone was Asia/Maldives

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

google is giving me nothing

[light granite]

we will js set to anything

if its fine

[brisk gale]

no not really

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

certificates might fail

[light granite]

oh

maybe a country w the same timezone as maldives?

[brisk gale]

maybe

[austere tiger]

the last 1000 messages in general is just you two talking 😭

[broken onyx]

balls

[light granite]

yes 😭

[light granite]

oh

[austere tiger]

crazy

[broken onyx]

hi

[brisk gale]

AHA

[austere tiger]

hi

[brisk gale]

it's Indian/Maldives

i have the right command for you then

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Indian/Maldives /etc/localtime

[light granite]

no output

[brisk gale]

success

[light granite]

ohh bet

[austere tiger]

wha

[brisk gale]

now we need to enable the networkmanager service

[light granite]

bet

[brisk gale]

systemctl enable NetworkManager

yes it is case sensitive

[light granite]

alr

i hope it does not crash like debian based os

[brisk gale]

shouldn't

[light granite]

yes done

[brisk gale]

finally our last step

we need to install the bootloader

[light granite]

😭

oh

[brisk gale]

run grub-install /dev/sda

no number, exactly like that

[light granite]

alr

installin

is it me or it crashed?

[brisk gale]

be patient

[light granite]

the underscore "_" isn't flashing

[brisk gale]

it will say so if it crashes

[light granite]

oh

[light granite]

happened same w debian based os

frozen

[brisk gale]

😨

no shot

[light granite]

bro 😭

im fr worried now

[brisk gale]

can you try pressing ctrl + c to terminate it

[light granite]

alr

nothing

fyck

[brisk gale]

oh dear

[light granite]

NOOO

despair2

[brisk gale]

in theory

we should just be able to pick up where we left off after rebooting

[light granite]

last msgs from bro: installing for x86_64-efi platform

[light granite]

oh

[brisk gale]

yeah

[light granite]

so uh

[brisk gale]

we just reboot into arch install env again

mount our drives and stuff

[light granite]

alr bet

[gilded fiber]

i would give up at this point

[light granite]

so i turn it off?

[gilded fiber]

i envy your dedication

[light granite]

im a masochist

[gilded fiber]

what

[light granite]

ima hold down power button for 5s and turn it off

[brisk gale]

okay

[light granite]

and poweron

[light granite]

im on the arch install menu

uefi

idk

[brisk gale]

press enter

[light granite]

bet

im on toot@archiso

root*

[brisk gale]

okay let's mount drives again

[light granite]

restart??

[brisk gale]

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

[light granite]

😭

alr

[brisk gale]

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

[light granite]

did this

[brisk gale]

now the next

[light granite]

done

[brisk gale]

run arch-chroot /mnt

[light granite]

alr

yesss

[brisk gale]

we are now back to where we were before

we're gonna try to install the bootloader again but differently this time

[light granite]

alr!

[brisk gale]

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

quite a long command

[light granite]

yeah

will take 2-3 mins

(double check nd stuf)

enter

fyck

[brisk gale]

uh oh

[light granite]

i think im tripping or the underscore isn't flashing

it was flashing

😭

[brisk gale]

o

[light granite]

ctrl c does nth

[brisk gale]

kinda have to go sleep chat

[light granite]

yeah

tysm man

😭

[brisk gale]

i gues

the thing doesn't boot

maybe bios/mobo issue

[light granite]

yeah

[brisk gale]

my guess for now uhhh

[brisk gale]

maybe secure boot is on in bios ?

or your mobo is just scuffed

[light granite]

off

[brisk gale]

yeah probably mobo then

[light granite]

yeah

[brisk gale]

dangerous

oh well

i sleep

[light granite]

it prev had a ton of viruses on win

😭

[light granite]

ye gn

[broken onyx]

arch tomfoolery

[somber nymph]

this has been happening for almost 5 hours

its morning already for carlton

[broken onyx]

im gonna get myself enrolled