I use ARCH btw
Following the guide is mostly ok ;
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Yes, but
- No need to partition if there's no need to! (esp EFI) You'll run into a permissions nightmare on your /home, but that's better than loosing data :
When the /home partition is mounted to /mnt/home at 'pacstrap' time, just chmod -r 777 the entire contents of the previous /home folder ; when you make your new user, be sure to give it another name.
- Only format your system / partition (or root partition) with makefs.<type of filesystem>.
- It's ok to mount the EFI partition to /boot/efi and not simply /boot so as to not fill that small partition with everything in /boot, especially numerous kernels
On my fresh install, the EFI partition is 260MB which is a factory default - and my /boot partition is already 268MB ; ergo, it wouldn't fit, with just 4 kernels + the windows stub
Default install through pacstrap needs a lot more stuff, you'll probably want
- base-devel linux-lts os-prober pacman-contrib
- grep rsync nano tar git iwd - snapper ?
- gdm gnome networkmamager gedit - or any of your logon manager and desktop evironement you choose
- bluez bluez-utils
- firefox vlc smplayer gimp
When you chroot in, it's normal for os-prober to not see the M$ partition, even if it is mounted ; you should re-run it, and grub-mkconfig, when you did reboot into the actual system
don't forget to enable some systemd services, duh
- gdm.service
- NetworkManager.service
- bluetooth.service
with systemctl enable <name of unit>.service
And make a basic user
Then create a basic user with
useradd -m <name of user>
Add it to sudoers with
EDITOR=nano visudo
Now you can reboot. Have you installed some network software? Have you enabled a graphic shell ? That's the core needs for a functional, fresh install to be tuned further as needed.
Set up aur or flatpak for dropbox and ungoogled-chromium ; add python-gpgme for dropbox.
Good luck with btrfs, and snapper, and snap-pac, and grub-btrfs, and don't forget to hack mkinitcpio as described.
