Good evening, Always well explained! my installation in UEFI which resembles that with KDE is working very well as of today I hope to manage to maintain it now. Bravo for all your tutorials
Great instructional video, really breaks it down. I followed this the first time and removed Manjaro and installed plain Arch with this video. Now I wrote some notes of my own and can proceed to replaces all my Fedora and CentOS with Arch. Thank you so much!
Great tutorial! it does not go into details of what exactly is going on (for that I can recommend Luke Smith Arhc install or plain Arch wiki), but for someone who knows what is going on but does not remember all the commands by heart this is very useful. Minor: I think user password change at 26:00 should be `passwd ermanno`, otherwise it changes root pass.
Thanks! I understand what you say, but I didn't want to make a long video. Moreover, in the Live Streams I much more in depth to the whole process. Thanks also for the note on the password. I missed that and I put up a card for it.
A lot has already changed. I couldn't choose the keyboard this way and they changed the connection to wifi (which is described in the description) I have to rename wifi because there is a space in it and arch can't see it XD I tried to install arch before but now I have more knowledge and I will not let it go this time!!!
Thank you so much Ermano for such easy to follow and well instructed process. I was able to configure Arch with i3 and is loving the speed! Do you have a video to configure pulseaudio on i3? That will be very helpful. Thanks again! :-)
Great videos, this and the following you did! I recently found this channel, really appreciating them so far. A quick question, whats the difference between pacman -Syy and pacman -Syyy? I know the former is for updating the repo data even if they result already up to date, but I can not find any reference to -Syyy online... thanks!
Great thanks for these videos! Question: For laptop users its common to have two graphic cards nowdays, I mean, the intel one and, lets say, nvidia as well. In these cases, should we install the respective drivers for both? Keep the awesome work! Cheers
Hi Jorge, thanks for your question. It's something that I originally planned to have included in the tutorial, but it was getting too long. According to the Arch Wiki since the NVIDIA 435.17 there is a method called PRIME which is already included and works automatically. That is actually the preferred method and the only one supported by NVIDIA. There is also a package in the AUR called optimus-manager that you can install and start/enable to change this manually. The NVIDIA driver includes everything, no need to install anything else.
So the Intel and nvidia drivers both get installed and prime can run them after that? And if we also install an lts kernel we'r also need lts for nvidia, yes? When arch updates the kernel, which happens a lot, do they send out the updated nvidia drivers so that the desktop doesn't break, or does the user have to do that manually? For both kernels?
Have you tried the optimus-manager aur pkg? Which way to control the switching do you think works better? Thanks again ermanno, these vids are really the best out here.
Hi ermanno Been busy here. I tried to update arch to the latest version. At the swap in stage 'swap file has holes in it' Well this something odd. I am keen to reinstall. Any suggestions. Shall format the ssd on another device perhaps and start again. Leigh Horton
Hi Leigh, yes, since the kernel 5.7, the allocate command does not work anymore. You can use the method described in the video description or watch one of the newest videos where I apply this method.
I am doing everything correctly but unfortunately I cannot log into the user account. Do you know what the problem could be? This is my second installation and it's the same.
Probably because of the mistake explained in the video description. What you can do is login as root and type “passwd username” and give the user a new password. Then type exit, and login with the username and password again.
Amazing tutorial, it’s very helpful! But I got a problem when I tried to install package nvidia and nvidia-utils: Warning:dependency cycle detected, eglexternalplatform will be installed before its nvidia-utils dependency. How to fix it? Thanks a lot :D
@@eflinux Did you enable (or added) any new network rule as part of the "Network Settings" on the Port forwarding configuration on your VM ? Thanks for the quick answer, I appreciate it.
That's because there is an error and why I put a card there. When you create the password for the user you type "passwd username". To correct this login with root and the root password and then change the password for the user.
Ermanno! It's not taking my password after the reboot. I followed your steps very very closely pausing the video at every step. root password took, but I cannot login as my name as you describe at 27:16. Is there a mistake in the video? I don't understand. I uncommented the line in visudo. Doesn't make sense. :(
Hi Patsy, yes it's a mistake. There is a card on the video. I forgot to put the username when I wanted to change the password. You can log in as root and change it from there. Sorry about that.
For me, before installing the GRUB bootloader, I had to mount my EFI partition to */boot/efi* , otherwise grub-mkconfig didn't create the required initramfs-linux.img. Might be helpful if anyone else is having the same issue.
Hello Ermanno This is the error I still get in file manager for my WD Mycloud on my network. - failed to mount Windows Share caused connection abort. The new arch install solved many errors. Yes it appears endeavour OS was causing entries in .ini and .conf as well as www.conf. leigh
Great Video. Waiting for complex Btfrs setup. I have both nvidia and amd gpu. can I install driver for both and hook monitors to them normally like in windows.. ( Ryzen 2700X no onboard graphics)
@@eflinux I think you misunderstood. 2700X is processor. I have an old Amd 7750 gpu in pcie x12 slot 2, and nvidia RTX 2060 gpu in slot 1. I want to be able to hook my monitors to both of them (Multi-Monitor) like in Windows. Currently I have arch installed with deepin DDE using Lightdm. But second graphics doesn't work. lspci shows amd gpu as unclaimed
I was wondering if you know a clean way to install the Virtual Box guest add-ons? I ran into a different kind of issues, like this: bugs.archlinux.org/task/65923
@@eflinux Inside the VM, I tried to follow the instructions from the wiki with no luck, when you have some time it would be great if you do one of your amazing videos on how to install the guest add-ons in Arch... Spite the fact I've been using other flavors of Linux for some years now, I'm new to Arch, sorry for the lot of questions. Between 2001 and 2015 I tried everything,.. my first distro ever was OpenSuse and from there I was on Distro-hopping-mode for several years.. Including Sabayon, Linux Mint, Xububtu, Fedora, Gentoo, Knoppix, Manjaro and finally Ubuntu... Ubuntu was the bigger disappointment ever, I was using it when they transitioned to Canonical, so I started using Debian. And from there, exploring Arch is just the natural next move, for good.
Wow that's a long journey! I'll try to test it out next week when I have some time. I remember I did it a couple of times, but never encountered any issue.
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. It replaces the legacy BIOS interface.
Hi, excellent video now I also feel that I can install Arch Linux. I need a little guidance, I already have partitions on my disk, how do I erase in a way that I can continue from where you start the partitioning. Cheers
@@eflinux I tried but when I typed w to write the new partitions it said system resources bush and the new partitions will be created on the next reboot. I guess I am stuck in some different issues. It was also giving me some ISO 9660 signature warning, which I did not see in your video.
@@eflinux completed the installation and reboot and while rebooting I took the usb out but the system did not boot instead the boot menu opens. Any thoughts?
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This is one of the best Arch install tutorials. Very easy to understand and explains why your doing each step. Great job.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I came from fedora and its the first time I try arch, I will be watching all of your videos, thanks!
Installing arch becomes waaay too easy, because of you, Ermanno ! It supposed to be difficult ! 😉
Hey thanks! And thank for the support! It's easier than Ubuntu :))
You are the best teacher sir, clear explanations. Subscribed
Thanks for the sub!
Ciao Ermanno! Grazie alla tua guida ho installato per la prima volta Arch sul mio portatile, ti ringrazio davvero tantissimo! Continua così 😁
Grazie Federico! Congratulazioni! E grazie per il sostegno! Ermanno
Good evening,
Always well explained! my installation in UEFI which resembles that with KDE is working very well as of today I hope to manage to maintain it now.
Bravo for all your tutorials
Hey thanks!
Great video! Installation is easy as a pie after seeing this. Thank you very much, Ermanno!
Very nice video.. I tried installing by referring the wiki but had some problems after reboot... This video helped me get Arch up and running
Hey thanks! Glad to hear that!
Great instructional video, really breaks it down. I followed this the first time and removed Manjaro and installed plain Arch with this video. Now I wrote some notes of my own and can proceed to replaces all my Fedora and CentOS with Arch.
Thank you so much!
Glad it helped!
thank you Ermanno. Thanks to this video I got the courage to install arch and it went great :)
That’s great! Glad it helped!
What an excellent tutorial everything is so clear. Thank you.
Thanks!
Thank You Ermanno for the nvidia driver instructions! Much appreciated!!
Hi Jake! You're very welcome!
Great tutorial! it does not go into details of what exactly is going on (for that I can recommend Luke Smith Arhc install or plain Arch wiki), but for someone who knows what is going on but does not remember all the commands by heart this is very useful.
Minor: I think user password change at 26:00 should be `passwd ermanno`, otherwise it changes root pass.
Thanks! I understand what you say, but I didn't want to make a long video. Moreover, in the Live Streams I much more in depth to the whole process. Thanks also for the note on the password. I missed that and I put up a card for it.
Thanks, your install arch is very easy, and clear for beginners...thankyou....
You're welcome!
A lot has already changed. I couldn't choose the keyboard this way and they changed the connection to wifi (which is described in the description)
I have to rename wifi because there is a space in it and arch can't see it XD
I tried to install arch before but now I have more knowledge and I will not let it go this time!!!
Thanks for the feedback! I’m thinking of doing a monthly Arch install to avoid issues with the monthly changes.
@@eflinux That would be great ^^
amazing series
Thanks!
yes, very useful indeed, and superior to the various installers I've used before.
Thanks for the feedback :)
Great tutorial, easy to follow ! Thanks for making such great tutorials. Greetings from Thurgau 🍎🇨🇭
Hey thanks! Greetings from Basel :)
If wifi-menu doesn't work enter "ip link set wlan0 down" first, where wlan0 is the name of your wifi interface
You should do a setup /customization of your main desktop which I believe is KDE. It'll be cool if you could show us what you work with etc.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll definitely do that!
Thank you so much Ermano for such easy to follow and well instructed process. I was able to configure Arch with i3 and is loving the speed! Do you have a video to configure pulseaudio on i3? That will be very helpful. Thanks again! :-)
Hey thanks! Your question should be answered in the i3 video I did on the channel.
Great videos, this and the following you did! I recently found this channel, really appreciating them so far. A quick question, whats the difference between pacman -Syy and pacman -Syyy? I know the former is for updating the repo data even if they result already up to date, but I can not find any reference to -Syyy online... thanks!
Hi thanks! It is used to force a refresh of the servers itself and to be honest is not always necessary. Cheers :)
Nice Video. Thank you very much. Can you make a video how to use Timeshift in that way you can load a restore directly from the Bootscreen?
Hey Tobias! I have something similar on the channel also with snapper, but I’ll definitely add your idea on the list :)
@@eflinux Thank you for the tip
In case Arch is installed on a removable media, you have to add the --removable option to grub.
Yes, absolutely. In fact, I am working on an install video like that.
Great thanks for these videos!
Question: For laptop users its common to have two graphic cards nowdays, I mean, the intel one and, lets say, nvidia as well. In these cases, should we install the respective drivers for both?
Keep the awesome work! Cheers
Hi Jorge, thanks for your question. It's something that I originally planned to have included in the tutorial, but it was getting too long. According to the Arch Wiki since the NVIDIA 435.17 there is a method called PRIME which is already included and works automatically. That is actually the preferred method and the only one supported by NVIDIA. There is also a package in the AUR called optimus-manager that you can install and start/enable to change this manually. The NVIDIA driver includes everything, no need to install anything else.
@@eflinux Thank you so much!
No problem!
So the Intel and nvidia drivers both get installed and prime can run them after that? And if we also install an lts kernel we'r also need lts for nvidia, yes? When arch updates the kernel, which happens a lot, do they send out the updated nvidia drivers so that the desktop doesn't break, or does the user have to do that manually? For both kernels?
Have you tried the optimus-manager aur pkg? Which way to control the switching do you think works better?
Thanks again ermanno, these vids are really the best out here.
Hi ermanno
Been busy here. I tried to update arch to the latest version.
At the swap in stage 'swap file has holes in it'
Well this something odd.
I am keen to reinstall.
Any suggestions.
Shall format the ssd on another device perhaps and start again.
Leigh Horton
Hi Leigh, yes, since the kernel 5.7, the allocate command does not work anymore. You can use the method described in the video description or watch one of the newest videos where I apply this method.
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=2024000 of=/swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
I am doing everything correctly but unfortunately I cannot log into the user account. Do you know what the problem could be? This is my second installation and it's the same.
Probably because of the mistake explained in the video description. What you can do is login as root and type “passwd username” and give the user a new password. Then type exit, and login with the username and password again.
@@eflinux (－‸ლ) I'm a moron. Thanks for the answer, I would still wonder why it doesn't work. How is it supposed to work when I have no password ...
No worries! Glad it worked!
Amazing tutorial, it’s very helpful! But I got a problem when I tried to install package nvidia and nvidia-utils: Warning:dependency cycle detected, eglexternalplatform will be installed before its nvidia-utils dependency. How to fix it? Thanks a lot :D
Thanks for your feedback! Before installing try pacman -Syyu and pacman -Syu.
im a bit confused on the use of ssh ..does it mean you need 2 computers?
Yes, SSH means secure shell, and it is a way to connect to another computer via terminal.
@@eflinux could you please tell me how do you connect to your VM with ssh ?
Sure, once you connect your VM to the internet, you look up for the ip and then login with "ssh user@yourip".
@@eflinux Did you enable (or added) any new network rule as part of the "Network Settings" on the Port forwarding configuration on your VM ? Thanks for the quick answer, I appreciate it.
No, not particularly.
i did everything in your tutorial on a vm then when it prompts me for my password and login it says incorrect
That's because there is an error and why I put a card there. When you create the password for the user you type "passwd username". To correct this login with root and the root password and then change the password for the user.
Thanks its sorted
Great! Glad it worked out.
Ermanno! It's not taking my password after the reboot. I followed your steps very very closely pausing the video at every step. root password took, but I cannot login as my name as you describe at 27:16. Is there a mistake in the video? I don't understand. I uncommented the line in visudo. Doesn't make sense. :(
Hi Patsy, yes it's a mistake. There is a card on the video. I forgot to put the username when I wanted to change the password. You can log in as root and change it from there. Sorry about that.
For me, before installing the GRUB bootloader, I had to mount my EFI partition to */boot/efi* , otherwise grub-mkconfig didn't create the required initramfs-linux.img. Might be helpful if anyone else is having the same issue.
Hi Brett, thanks for sharing this!
whats the difference between "pacman -Syyy" and "pacman -Syy"
Is the same, just force re syncing the servers. Just use the -yy. I stopped using -yyy in newer tutorials.
y and yy are different but yy and yyy are the same
Hello Ermanno This is the error I still get in file manager for my WD Mycloud on my network. - failed to mount Windows Share caused connection abort. The new arch install solved many errors. Yes it appears endeavour OS was causing entries in .ini and .conf as well as www.conf.
leigh
Hi Leigh, that's probably because SAMBA is not installed or not configured correctly. You might refer here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba
@@eflinux do I wait for you or download samba?
I can't explain samba here in a comment, it's quite long. I will eventually make a video one day, but I don't know yet when.
Can’t we just use the guided arch installer?
You can, but it doesn't offer all the options available in a manual install.
@@eflinux Understandable.
Great Video. Waiting for complex Btfrs setup. I have both nvidia and amd gpu. can I install driver for both and hook monitors to them normally like in windows.. ( Ryzen 2700X no onboard graphics)
Hi! For such a new card you just need the NVIDIA packages. They’ll care if hybrid graphics.
@@eflinux I think you misunderstood. 2700X is processor. I have an old Amd 7750 gpu in pcie x12 slot 2, and nvidia RTX 2060 gpu in slot 1. I want to be able to hook my monitors to both of them (Multi-Monitor) like in Windows. Currently I have arch installed with deepin DDE using Lightdm. But second graphics doesn't work. lspci shows amd gpu as unclaimed
Oh I see, sorry. Did you install the xf86-video-amdgpu package?
@@eflinux I think I did install packages for both nvidia and amd. But I will try again tonight. As per your instruction.
@@eflinux thank you! It works perfectly now.
I was wondering if you know a clean way to install the Virtual Box guest add-ons? I ran into a different kind of issues, like this: bugs.archlinux.org/task/65923
In the host? Do you get a specific error message?
@@eflinux
Inside the VM, I tried to follow the instructions from the wiki with no luck, when you have some time it would be great if you do one of your amazing videos on how to install the guest add-ons in Arch...
Spite the fact I've been using other flavors of Linux for some years now, I'm new to Arch, sorry for the lot of questions.
Between 2001 and 2015 I tried everything,.. my first distro ever was OpenSuse and from there I was on Distro-hopping-mode for several years.. Including Sabayon, Linux Mint, Xububtu, Fedora, Gentoo, Knoppix, Manjaro and finally Ubuntu...
Ubuntu was the bigger disappointment ever, I was using it when they transitioned to Canonical, so I started using Debian.
And from there, exploring Arch is just the natural next move, for good.
Wow that's a long journey! I'll try to test it out next week when I have some time. I remember I did it a couple of times, but never encountered any issue.
If possible, in someday, please explain how to install Arch Linux on USB and boot it on any PC.
Hey thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to the list!
What's UEFI
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. It replaces the legacy BIOS interface.
Hi, excellent video now I also feel that I can install Arch Linux. I need a little guidance, I already have partitions on my disk, how do I erase in a way that I can continue from where you start the partitioning. Cheers
You can just follow the video. Creating a new gpt label will wipe the old one.
@@eflinux I tried but when I typed w to write the new partitions it said system resources bush and the new partitions will be created on the next reboot. I guess I am stuck in some different issues. It was also giving me some ISO 9660 signature warning, which I did not see in your video.
I see, in that case just reboot the machine and try again. The gpt label will be working then.
@@eflinux completed the installation and reboot and while rebooting I took the usb out but the system did not boot instead the boot menu opens. Any thoughts?
What boot menu? Do you mean GRUB or something else?
26:03 passwd command here changes the root user password
Hi yes, it's an error and that's why there is a card for that on the video.
@@eflinux have an option of no cards. Otherwise your video is great!
You mean you don't see the card popping up? I checked it again now and I can see it. Thanks for the feedback :)
@@eflinux I followed your video from the TV, I also checked that there are no cards or cards-on option at all there.
Got it, I understand.