How to install Arch Linux 

IMPORTANT! There have been recent changes to how Arch is installed. The pacstrap command in this video no longer installs things like the kernel or nano using the base group. The base group has now been changed to a metapackage, so refer to the Arch Installation Guide wiki since it has been updated to include the new method of using pacstrap (pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware). There has also been mention of other things missing that need to be installed, like mkinitcpio... I'll be working on a update to this so I can post a new video so don't forget to subscribe!

The legend is back! He's alive!

Thank you, Dorian! My first Arch install was successful because of your video. I must mention that I watched a few videos before yours and couldn't make sense of what is happening. The purpose of my install was to learn and I learned a lot from you (the way you have explained Things) Thanks Once again. Cheers!🙌✌️

Great tutorial, Dorian! I've installed Arch a dozen or so times and never once thought to install all of my other software with pacstrap. Nice tip. Thank you, sir. Hope the wife, kids and yourself are doing well. Dash on!

Great to see you uploading again man, it's been a while. Great tutorial on basic Arch install, I may have to conquer my fears and try it!

I already installed but still I like to watch it's installation.

Hey, glad to see a new upload from you :D Your tutorials really gave me a great start into linux a few months ago and still prove very useful to me

Welcome back. Missed ya vids :)

I have to say that this was probably the most logical install of Arch that I've looked at so far. That's not to say that I am currently (or may ever be lol) up to doing a pure Arch install. The scarier part for me, as a relative newbie, is that people do leave bits out and tend to do their own thing. Good if you know how (or have the know-how lol) but not so simple if you are relatively new. I have seen someone install Arch using the Zen installer (?) and this seemed a lot easier way of doing things. That would probably be my limit currently. That or just install Manjaro or Salient, both of which I can highly recommend if 'Arch based' is good enough for you. Thanks for that, Dorian, a very enlightening video.

Good video, finally installed Arch. I use Arch BTW....

I tried an Arch install the other day but it would not allow my partitioning because those areas were populated by my old operating system. After viewing this video I realize I needed to delete the original partitions first. I think I'll give it another go. I am so glad this video showed up in my list of suggestions.

I thought I was seeing things. Welcome back.

Nicely talked through, great thanks :-)

for partitioning GPT UEFI please use gdisk. Parted is not setting up efi partition correctly now (at least for me and many other people of internet).

You're a brave man Dorian;) And wellcome back. I've missed your voice. Did not do Arch. To difficult. Peppermint is so much easier and quicker to install.

Great video. I use Arcolinuxd with xfce desktop. Runs great

The long and short of it is Arch is a more advanced Distro. For those who are intimidated by the command line and dont want to use it Arch really isnt for you. In order to install Vanilla Arch you need to read the installation instructions by some other means than the the machine youre installing on., Cell Phone, another machine or printed out paper. You'd need to watch this video on another machine as well. One thing that should be stressed is you need to be precise with the command line.

I recently found your channel, good stuff, I am maybe no bloody linux beginner anymore but I still encounter new stuff everyday and I certainly would not be able to explain and guide through everything as you do. Very enjoyable to watch. :) I used Archbang before and afterwards I switched to Manjaro i3wm, so definitely not afraid of Arch anymore, I would be more afraid of Gentoo ;) especially stage 1.

so good to see you got new content

At 16:15 I think you mean, "you're going to want netctl" not "wifi-menu, which also requires dialog." There is no such package as "wifi-menu." "dialog" is the app that is invoked with the command "wifi-menu" which itself configures/operates the netctl network manager. I found wpa-supplicant to be kind of dodgy (I think that's the problem), and prefer iwd.service and dhcpcd, and optionally, apparently, networkmanager-iwd (AUR). Personally, I now add iwd and dhcpcd to my pacstrap install.

Personally I just want to install fast, whether it's pretty or not. I just set locale and use systemd boot ending up with an install that takes less than 8 minutes XD... Then I just get an aur manager like yay and install a desktop environment. After a reboot I spend an hour setting things up in a DE instead of doing it all in a tty. Feels a lot better. uwu edit: I make a user before rebooting.

Nice video! Not much harder than doing a cold-start in an F-16 fighter jet! =)

The legend is back..

Great video Dorian, Thanks!!

You go away for seven months and then expect us to carry on as if nothing happened? O.K. then ;-) Hope you and your family are all well and I look forward to more of your content.

always the same error when I install grub : SQUASHFS error: unable to read fragment and read page, block +boot/efi does not look like an EFI partition. idea? thanks

"Arch isn't scary or that hard" except you want to install it with 2 graphic cards ;)

Welcome back!

Thank you, Dorian.

Holly crap! You... You mad man. You aren't even scared! Ha!

Can I delete windows and install arch Linux permanently using this video ?

Nice video! Thanks for that. I'm currently enjoying Arch with Gnome, but I would really like to add KDE so I have 2 desktop environments to choose from before logging in (in the form of a drop down). Could you tell me how to do that?

Thanks Dorian 👍

So Ive long since installed Arch. But your window showing the installation web page is deceiving how could you possibly do this while installing????And how do you view the Installation page without another machine???How would we watch this video during an install????

Nice Thanks for the video, Dorian. Have you ever used openbox, tiling window managers. there lightweight

Thanks!!! It's a great video. Is it possible to install Arch first setting up the wifi and then installing it using wifi? I don't have ethernet cable. I can tether my mobile phone to download the wifi driver, but not during the whole installation.

after i rebooted it went into the grub menu any help gnu grub ver 2.04

I tried to install cozy-audiobook on Manjaro, it says I require missing dependencies, I have no idea how to install them. Anyone want to help out a noob?

do you have a link for your wallpaper?

Great tutorial. Long time Linux and Debian user but true enough, arch is different. I always try to do it on a new device in a vm first and arch is kicking my butt. I’ve tried refind is my boot mgr and it hangs. I try grub and it dumps me to the grub> prompt. Is there a good resource for vmware 15 folks that works with efi? Again, great video and I actually liked when things didn’t work so I could see your processes.to fix. Thanks!

19:23 just a note for auto daylight saving in DE's like Xfce you want to do "timedatectl set-ntp true" this will/should correct your time if it is wrong for whatever reason

I tried to follow your instructions but add xfce instead of cinnamon but got way in over my head and decided to copy your method line by line and it worked great! I noticed one thing that was different from the Wiki in the hostname file and was wondering if it would have an effect on the line: 127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname instead of "localdomain" you put "localhost", would that effect you when you try to run servers?

I tried to install a few days ago, but I doesn't know how to include it on my BIOS (The option to boot it, because I normally use Linux with Windows). Can you help me pls? ;-;

I seem to face a recurring issue, once i get into arch-chroot system I loose my nano and other base packages that should be there am i messing up a step?? do i skip something? it continues to occur no matter how many tires i go at it could someone help

How do you install Manjaro with manual patitioning? Please.

Did he do "locale-gen"?

hello dorian we miss u

A bit ago, I put Fedora KDE on a laptop.. Should I try Arch?

I always see photoshop on your lower panel, would you mind doing a tutorial on getting photoshop/Lightroom running on Linux?

no mirror found

Oh yeah. You install that Arch.

Only BIOS... works for me! I also want to install it on an old ass laptop

Its not hard linux newb like me could do it, but as helpfull as arch wiki is, the community especially the irc ones are d-bags. they could populate it with bots that link arch wiki pages and you would have a better time. Unfortunatly the arch wiki is not dynamic if you want something not common... gud luck buddy be prepared to dig for hours to piece the informtion together. I'm sure a person with technical understanding could have answered my questions in minutes but no such luck for me

Welcome back. Nice video

This video was scarier than the Japanese 'The Grudge' haha

Hallelujah!

Hi Dorian i've really been enjoying your videos and learning a lot, too. I was attracted to the minimal installation based on Ubuntu and Openbox and worked through your example. On a 32-bit Ubuntu 16. The resulting RAM requirement was about 120MB at idle. I thought that was pretty good, until I found this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GojRNIliZnc.html This is a minimal Arch Lxde 32-bit install with much lower RAM requirements. Your comments would be appreciated on the difference between the two minimal installs (Ubuntu Openbox and Arch Linux Lxde) and what the advantages / drawbacks might be of the two approaches. In particular, I also need to get a Thinkpad 240x up and going in under 192mb, like the video in the link. Once again, great work and deserves to be much higher views (and surely will one day).

How is gaming on Arch?

i failed at reflector

This distribution is not for beginners. Anyone that is not familiar with Linux / UNIX will be turned off by this. This is why Windows is so popular, as it is basically turn-key. Admittedly, Arch Linux is fantastic, but only if you are both tech savoy and are familiar with the many commands (and their options), in order to get it all to work. Sure, the folks that tune in to this channel (and similar channels) eat this up. But for the general population? If this would be their first experience with Linux, they would never consider Linux, any distribution, again. Again, it is a great OS. But its appeal to the overall public is extremely limited.

cf disk, what? I have been doing it by command line all this time. and wifi-menu is for noobs. I scan for APs by command-line like God intended.

"no efi" Challenge level down... Just kidding. Anyways, I hope you make a video about installing wine on arch cus pacman's pretty clueless with it. And how to improve surf browser cus that's the only web browser I'm lucky installing it smh EDIT: "no wifi" another challenge level down hahaha! Arch was harder to install becoz them providers didn't included wpa supplicant(though it was included in networkmanager), dialog, especially actiond along pacstrap so I had a bunch of headache installing my arch with just a wifi.

N00Bz shudnt use Arch, goto Manjaro

If it takes over 30 minutes, it ain't easy. Manjaro is much easier, and with the deepin desktop, it's almost lovely.

That was scary as hell, not something I'm ready for

Yeah?....well Arch scares me more than that clown from "IT"!......all those commands and packages.....LoL! No desktop...no icons.....like WTH!!??.....CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TURN ON ALL THE LIGHTS!?.....LOL!!!

...its easy, 40 min video! lol

the problem is not the installation the problem is in the after installation how can you fix manually things what if wifi dont work you have nvidia drivers etc