i love arch linux for the fact that you have to uninstall the installer and install pip to install a new installer (that hopefully lets me do a partition scheme) make the easy way as hard as possible.
Thnx Stephen! I recently used archinstall for KDE and it was a. also a very 'light' install (which I prefer) and worked very well indeed. A great project. Second I enjoyed looking at Mate (can you say that? ;-). Reminded me it is one of the very few DE's I haven't used yet. But seeing this I will 😎. Thanks!
Hey Stephen, another great video. I just ran ArchInstall today with the September ISO, and the font size was nice and big in the terminal by default. The installation was perfect, but somewhere I neglected to install kernel support for the NTFS volumes where I have other data and kind of gave up. It used systemd-boot, which looked great, but it did not detect the other OSes on the two other drives (Fedora 36 and Windows 10), so I was kind of stuck there too. It would be great if you could include a walkthrough covering those options.
Yes, thanks for the suggestion! Keep in mind that systemd-boot can only start EFI executables whereas os-prober which detects your Win10 install only works with GRUB (and on the same disk!) afaik. I think maybe that's why GRUB remains the popular default. :/
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Ah, that is good to know. Well, I have all my other OSes using UEFI, but of course Fedora uses GRUB and it finds Windows 10 with no issues, even though Windows and its UEFI bootloader are on a separate drive. I have discovered that even if I use separate UEFI boot partitions for other Linux distros, they still run the OS-Prober and pick up all other OSes on the machine.
@@jesse7631 Does your UEFI offer a Boot Manager section? If so, you can have it give you are choice of which option to boot. Mine is several years old and it gives me that option. I did use it for a bit and can verify that it did work just fine. If you install ntfs-3g from the Arch repos, it should then read and write to the NTFS partitions.
@@act.13.41 Yes, it does; in fact I can hit F12 at boot time to bring up an easy to use boot menu from the UEFI BIOS. I was hoping to create entries in the Systemd bootloader for the other OSes on my pc, all of which have their own /boot/efi partitions. I did install ntfs-3g to get access to my other drives.
Thanks for the video! I understand that archinstall still has problems with existing installations, right? In particular, it insists on having a separate /boot partition (which does not even follow the "standard" /boot/efi path). I also don't understand why having a separate /boot partition in the presence of BTRFS: if you take snapshots, the things in /boot should be part of the snapshot as well, while this is not the case with a separate boot partition...
Keep getting a mounting error regarding my nvme0n1. Any idea how to fix? Been reading and seems to be a common issue with nvme drive for some reason on the new release.
