Artix Linux Full Install with runit 

It is indeed a great Community!

Yes, it’s in video description.

ikr, its jsut beautiful. probably can go even lower with dwm

What?! Installing Artix instead of Arch right now!

Artix (openrc) with dwm use 100mb+ in my case

Man, we have to go in a vc. Discord?

That's great to hear! It breathes new life into old 10-15-year-old family PCs and family laptops. Really the only thing scaring me away is my negative experience with i3 and tiling window managers in general. Nothing worked, finding even Firefox to open it was a task of its own and it violated my personal beliefs about graphical user interfaces (a GUI has to be easily understandable with a single point and click; a GUI has to behave like a collection of objects and not like an extended terminal with disjointed functions sprinkled in). So yeah, although a tiling window manager uses a whole lot less memory than even XFCE or LXQt, I simply won't install a tiling window manager on an old PC and I'd stay with a compositing one, like Enlightenment. Looks pretty, doesn't consume a whole lot of resources and it's also a compositing WM (with a tiling option for those who like it).

Hey thanks !

Thanks! And glad I could help!

@@eflinux Your welcome. keep making the videos they're very good!

Thanks for your support!

Thanks for the feedback!

Glad it helped!

They are both great init systems. I like openRC a lot.

10:34 updated as mention of the artix main site, using # artix-chroot /mnt

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks!

Thanks!

You can install the same packages. The only difference is the init system, everything else can be installed in the same way.

@@eflinux Yeah. I just tried. They worked in the same way.

Hey glad it helped!!

Thanks for sharing!

That's going to be next :)

@@eflinux much appreciated and looking forward to it. Can you add a brief overview on how you can use these favors in your every day workflow if anyone chooses to. Content like this you don't see a lot of. If you do it's a bit dated or doesn't exist. Maybe inspire sum people to ticker around a bit and explore and learn something new. Thank you

What I can imagine doing, is to have an overview of how these systems are working, but probably it's best to try them out and see the one that one likes best. In the end it'll be personal preference, I think.

@@eflinux Yes, you said it better. What I was trying to say.

I'm installing the S6 version myself. I don't know if the init system makes any difference, just picked it because it isn't very common.

After watching your video, I still quite get how to enable/start openssh. Can you help me?

As it says here, first find the service name and then under basic usage you can link the command. I don't remember exactly the service name, but you'll find it the directory: wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Runit

then chromium goes brrrr

They are different init systems for Linux. They manage services in different ways. Runit and s6 are lighter and more modular than systemd. They represent different philosophies. I think each has its own pros and cons and as always it’s best to test them out and see which one works for you best.

I’ll begin with OpenBSD in the future and move on from there :)

You’re welcome:)

I'll see what I can do :)

@@eflinux Looking at some of the stronger cryptsetup cipher options after running cryptsetup benchmark would be cool, as I don't think it's been covered in the encrypted arch installs you've done already :-)

I'll definitely look into it :)

You'll just have to use xinit for that. It should work just fine.

Thank you!

Qtile is an interesting WM. I will cover it together with awesomewm and bspwm in the future.

@@eflinux Make 2 Qtile videos to install on Arch and on a Debian-based distro. Since the installation is different that would be great.

Thanks for the suggestion!

I tried writing the fstabgen output to a text file then opening that text file with Nano, copying the contents then manually opening the fstab file in Nano and pasting the text into that file but it loses the "clipboard" data after leaving and reopening Nano so I can't paste it in manually to the fstab file. Only thing I can think of to try now is taking a photo of the fstabgen output and manually typing it all into the fstab file haha.

I tried this: I made two text files in the home directory then i tried to cat the output of one and append it to the other like this: cat file1 >> file2 It worked and it added the text from file1 to the end of the text of file2. So then I tried the same thing but with the text file containing the fstabgen output, like this: sudo cat tempfstabgenfile >> /mnt/etc/fstab But it still tells me permission denied!? -bash: /mnt/etc/fstab: Permission denied Anyone reading this know what the problem is? Why does it deny me access to write to, or append to, the fstab file even when I use sudo (or even when running as root with su)?

Ok I did take a photo of the output of fstabgen and manually typed it into the fstab file. It allowed me sudo permission to open, write and save the fstab file with the data so I did that and moved on to the next step shown in the video which is to input the command: artools-chroot /mnt All I get is this: -bash: artools-chroot: command not found So unfortunately I will have to give up trying to install an Artix base system as the necessary commands to do so just aren't recognized. I have been able to install the preconfigured Artix ISOs with DEs just fine so I'll have to install one of those and then remove all the extra stuff so it is stripped back down to a base install.

The artools-chroot command/program doesn't exist so I tried the standard chroot which did work. However when moving on to the dd stage i could not open the /dev/zero file as shown in the instructions of this video because the zero file did not exist. I went into the dev directory and made the zero file myself then ran the dd command again and it appears to have worked. Moved on to the chmod 600 /swapfile command which worked. Next command was mkswap /swapfile which failed because it says "mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40 KiB". So even though it has already been given a 2GB area it fails and says it needs at least 40 KiB. So that's it, I'm done, I don't know any way to try to proceed from here. Maybe these comments will help someone else who has the same problems.

Tried again. This time I got as far as unmounting and rebooting at 19:40 of the video but after the reboot I just get GRUB error: unknown filesystem grub rescue prompt instead of a login prompt.

You’re welcome!

They are all very light, I find s6 particularly fast, though. Openrc however is more mature.

Runit for me...

Thanks! How do you mean with Calamares? That is an installer, not a OS per se.

​@@eflinux Bonjour, Yes, I find it interesting to see a "manual" installation of Artix so well explained. However, I regret a bit that you did not quickly indicate to non specialists that they can very easily install the same distribution via Calamares the graphical installer. What I don't understand are the distros that install laboriously through the terminal and then use systemd which automates a lot of things in its own way. Which is obviously not the case with Artix. --- Oui, je trouve intéressant de voir une installation "manuelle" d'Artix si bien expliquée. Cependant, je regrette un peu que vous n'ayez pas indiqué rapidement à des non spécialistes qu'ils peuvent très facilement installer la même distribution via Calamares l'installateur graphique. Ce que je ne comprends pas, ce sont les distributions qui s'installent laborieusement via le terminal, puis utilisent systemd qui automatise beaucoup de choses à sa manière. Ce qui n'est évidemment pas le cas avec Artix.

Arch Linux and Artix can be installed with installers, but it defies the purpose of the distro. Arch Linux is meant to be installed from the cli to give you complete control of the packages you want to install and tailor the installation the way you want in the finest details.

@@eflinux Thank you for your reply. Obviously, for competent people, it is useful to choose in detail the applications to install. --- Merci pour votre réponse. Évidemment, pour les personnes compétentes, il est utile de choisir en détail les applications à installer.

It is definitely not a distro for newcomers to the Linux world, but if you want to learn more about how the OS works underneath, Arch (or Gentoo for that matter) are indeed great choices.

Are you on VB? If so, you have to enable EFI in the settings.

@@eflinux yea thanks it worked, but on rebooting I'm getting stuck on the GRUB prompt (GNU GRUB version 2.06), what should I do now, do u know?

You can always change that. There's probably support on that on Arch wiki.

Hi Marc, yes, it is in the video description.

Ah, no wonder it didn't work for me. I tried normal chroot which worked but the stages after that failed.

If there are no services to be enabled or touched, then no.

@@eflinux Which means Artix is nothing but Arch with runit? That's better. I thought I had to re-learn the whole Arch logic but now I have different init system.

Thank you!

Hi Craig, according to the Wiki, Thunderbolt should be working out of the box. See here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Thunderbolt

@@eflinux mine is thunderbolt2, different chip. lsusb doesn't show monitor and lsmod shows thunderbolt is running with the kernel so thinking i need ro edit udev.conf file to get permissions right for the bus.

Seems to be the only option. Also, try and see if there's a firmware update.

@@eflinux well wouldn't you know it, the solution was very simple. The monitor didn't work with the thunderbolt port. After trying everything else i finally swapped cables between the monitors and voila.

Glad you sorted it out!

Have you tried the iwd utility?

They have on the Artix website a couple where you can choose different desktop environments

Yes, it's in the video description.

@@eflinux just saw it, thanks!

It's in the video description, use artix-chroot.

@@eflinux Thank you so much :)

Open the terminal and type nmtui. You can configure Wifi from there.

Are you installing on VirtualBox?

@@eflinux no, on an old laptop. There is another file called EFI, but not called EFI system.

EFI refers to the ESP, or EFI System Partition, that's the one you are looking for.

@@eflinux in the first menu (when I open my laptop with the USB key, and when I click on "search EFI file", it tells me there isn't EFI file.

I am not sure if I fully understand, but usually if the ISO is bootable, you should be able to boot from the USB key without looking for an efi file. Probably you need to adjust a setting on your bios.

Hello! That happened to me once. It might be server related, or you could try installing reflector and create a new arch-mirrorlist file in the /etc/pacman.d directory.

@@eflinux Thank you for your reply! I hope I get it to work

I managed to fix it by using Ethernet if anyone had the same problem

Not that I'm aware of.

That means the service should be already working. The video is s little old, it's possible some things have changed.

@@eflinux Checked with rsm, sshd is not running. I have enabled firewalld, but not sshd.

For its speed I'd say s6 :)

I'd say no. If you are new to Linux you should check out Linux Lite or Linux Mint.

@@eflinux I am not new in linux, I've been using Debian or Ubuntu for 8 years. I can use the terminal. Can I use Artix? I could install Arch on a virtual machine using command line. The install process is similar. I haven't installed Arch on my computer, because there is no efi.

You can definitely. You can also install Arch on non UEFI systems btw.

@@eflinux That I can't I think.

I've already installed Artix, it seems easier than Debian

Yes.

I'd say so. A swap partition or a swapfile.

No, but some programs and games need it so...

Thanks for the feedback! That’s a odd. Sounds like the service is down. Did you bring your WiFi adapter up as shown in the tutorial?

@@eflinux Yes and it worked without problems

There might have been some changes in the latest ISO. Try to see if the service can be started with “sv up connman”

"-bash: sv: command not found". Maybe I should reinstall iso?

Maybe I misunderstood. Are we talking about installing or after the installation?