Hi folks. Right Now I'm downloading Arch and am going to set it up on VMware. I wanted to know if any of you had any tutorials I could follow. Or anything.
A-arch?Do YOU want to be a semi neck beard and impress your somewhat neckish friends but don’t want to install gentoo and be a /g/tard? Arch is your new best friend.
omg… FOR FUCKS SAKE ANOTHER ARCH INSTALL GUIDE! No, no, no, this one is a little different, its more of a collaboration of things and I will be running through a complete install guide up to the point where you will be playing your favourite games natively in wine. And moreso the point of this is so you don’t end up running into a multitude of issues like crashing your computer ever time you run Xorg because for some reason you really messed up your graphics card drivers. Even if you are super newfag than you should be able to understand this guide.
This will be a 64 bit install.
Also note: I did all of this on my laptop which was not running arch at the time, so everything below is from memory. Please correct me on any typo’s I may have wrote or if I have missed anything.
Also I got sick and tired of seeing a WIP sitting on my desktop so I have just posted this incomplete. I will add shit to it when I get time. Hopefully there is enough here to get you pretty well settup.Setting up the drives
I am going to assume that you are using a blank wiped hard drive and we are going to set everything up, including the partition table, from scratch. Noobs be warned. Your data will be WIPED
Download your Arch Linux iso. You can find the download here.(insert link)
Making a bootable usb in Linux
Find where the download is located and have the path on hand. Now we are going to have to find out what the pathname is to the USB, i.e. where its mounted. The easiest way to do that is to check all of the currently inserted devices, then plug in your usb and check again. The new device is your usb, have this path on hand as well.
fdisk -l
You can see all of the drives connected using fdisk
sudo dd if=/path/to/file.iso of=/path/to/usb bs=1m
Run this command and replace the pathnames where applicable. I…
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That article is old as fudge tho. It does not talk about uefi either. ( do vm's use uefi? )
Edit: found you a proper install guide fam.
arch-linux-install
# Install ARCH Linux with encrypted file-system and UEFI
# The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description.
# Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/
# Copy to a usb-drive
dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux
# Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration.
# Set swedish keymap
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This guy is Swedish, so he talks about including Swedish stuff, replace the Swedish stuff with stuff from where you are from.
Edit 2: there is this German guy that did an arch install inside a vm. The commands are in English.
If you have to ask how to setup Arch... You shouldn't use Arch.
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@NetBandit I know how to setup distros from a terminal I just don't want to mess stuff up
@Goalkeeper Thanks I speak both English and German so this is really useful to me.
@sinisa94 I did check but wanted something newer
Thanks everybody for the quick replies.
Why? Everybody has to start somewhere.
When I set up Arch I just followed the official guide:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide
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@Azulath @NetBandit is just like that an Old sysadmin that likes to be cantankerous.
And thanks for the official guide.
Arch wiki should get you there pretty much.
Oh so you followed online directions and didn't ask how in a forum?
Azulath
January 31, 2017, 7:45pm
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I assumed he already knows of this wki, but just asked in order to know if there's something else to consider.
thegai02:
likes to be cantankerous
No, that's not it at all. Just pointing out that if you are asking how, when an install guide exists, that maybe Arch isn't what they should be running.
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Hi thegai02: Arch is one of the more advanced Linux distros. As such, it might be more dificult to install than other Linux distros, such as Ubuntu. If you've never tried any flavor of Linux, you might want to start with one of the easier to install distros first.
If you've already installed other Linux distros, and still want to install Arch, you should follow the official Arch install guide, located here:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide
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tkoham
January 31, 2017, 11:10pm
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one step guide:
Install Antergos or Apricity
if you want something more stable, get Backbox instead. From the people who brought you backtrack.
mnhan32
February 2, 2017, 4:25am
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Hi thegai02, Archlinux wiki is definitely the GO-TO place for most of thing. However, gloriouseggroll.tv provides the best step by step Archlinux installation guide in my opinion. I followed his instruction setting up my two machines running Archlinux.
Watch Wendell install Linux
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