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Following the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide guide] is mostly ok ; A word on something I completely forgot about : ==Read The FINE Manual== (Assuming you have a thumbdrive ready and working) * Use F12 on Fatitude to get to the Choose Your Boot Media at startup * Load correct keymap : # loadkeys fr-latin1 * Network interface probably gonna be wlan0 ; in doubt, do '''ip link''' * Use [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd#iwctl iwctl] to connect to the wireless network [iwd]# station wlan0 scan [iwd]# station device get-networks [iwd]# station device connect SSID [iwd]# exit # ping archlinux.org # timedatectl * Check [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Partition_the_disks partitions] architecture : # fdisk -l * Only format your root partition to install a fresh system on it. Add swap if you have swap: # mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sda6 (the -f option is to override former btrfs subvolumes) # mkswap /dev/sda8 * Mount the filesystems you're going to use on the /mnt folder of your live system: # mount --mkdir /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot/efi # mount --mkdir /dev/sda7 /mnt/home # mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/ # swapon /dev/swap_partition * Now start reading '''Yes, but''' ==Yes, but== - '''Yes, there's probably 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> -f'' is enough for a fresh re-install. - 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 git grub efibootmgr - grep rsync nano tar git iwd less sudo - gdm gnome networkmamager gedit - or any of your login manager and desktop environment of choice - bluez bluez-utils usbutils git go zip wget - firefox vlc smplayer gimp calibre - [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper snapper] ? if you go this route then snap-pac and grub-btrfs too. The current state of the wiki page there is such that I should try snapper-gui-git (AUR) and/or btrfs-assistant (AUR). Creating, generating, booting into snapshots mostly work. Restoring your system to a snapshot does not. 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 os-prober, and re-run grub-mkconfig, when you did reboot into the actual, fresh system. os_prober only need to see your EFI partition, where other boot stubs are stored, not the actual system disks ==don't forget to enable some systemd services, duh== - gdm.service - NetworkManager.service - bluetooth.service with systemctl enable <name of unit>.service If you are already in your graphic environment and instead need it to be enabled and start immediately (like for network), run systemctl enable --now <name of unit>.service ==And make a basic user== Then create a basic user with useradd -m -G %wheel <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 [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository aur] or install [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flatpak flatpak] for dropbox and ungoogled-chromium ; add python-gpgme for dropbox. ==Other Housechores== Uncheck the os-prober-false at the bottom of /etc/default/grub ; generally speaking, tweak the grub file to your liking and re-run grub-mkconfig Add the user to sudo with ''EDITOR=nano visudo'' setup keyboard in gnome setup keyboard in GDM with ''localectl set-x11-keymap fr'' Enable tap to click in gnome Enable pinch in firefox by adding MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 in .bash_profile Setup wiregard Enable the paccache.timer service to get rid weekly of the cruft in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ ''which will totally eat up your disk if you don't do that!'' # systemctl enable --now paccache.timer Good luck with btrfs, and snapper, and snap-pac, and grub-btrfs, and don't forget to [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper#Booting_into_read-only_snapshots hack mkinitcpio] as described. Then try your luck with (no, it didn't work here): # snapper rollback --ambit classic <snapshot number to rollback to> The pyhton script snapper-rollback also doesn't work for me, asks for some cquota definition that is said to be damageable to performance on the root partition ; note that I nevertheless blindly imputed some commands to enable quota, rescan them and such. sources suse and oracle. Trying now in a VM to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maIu1d2lAiI scrupulously follow this guide], will add [[btrfs before install notes]]. ==AND IF YOU FAIL...== '''Just re-do the whole install thing ; it is better to loose 20 minutes re-doing it than spending 20 days fixing it''' For reference, and in memoriam of failing to generate a correct one yesterday : # Static information about the filesystems. # See fstab(5) for details. # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # /dev/sda6 UUID=38472571-3738-42e4-9561-47facca89d00 '''/''' btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=5,subvol=/ 0 0 # /dev/sda7 UUID=05d5954f-f948-4d21-9813-aa687a8d4cf4 '''/home''' btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=5,subvol=/ 0 0 # /dev/sda2 LABEL=SYSTEM UUID=B651-2AC6 /boot'''/efi''' vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2 # /dev/sda8 UUID=3845f812-ba5d-4113-8dbe-635448119669 none '''swap''' defaults 0 0 == Annoyances, gripes and actual issues== * Why is os-prober disabled in grub ; why is it not included by default? * And '''why''' aren't included small stuff like less, nano, grep, wget, rsync - or iwd and pacman-contrib ?! * Why can I not run Appimages ? They're supposed to work everywhere. * Why did my last ''genfstab'' fail with only /dev/sda6? Why where there duplicate of everything when I re-mounted the drives genfstab missed? '''Why is installing Arch still a 1h30 affair when I know the whole thing practically by heart? The pre-download, pre-pacstrap part was 11 minutes!!

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