Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by bombcar on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:38AM
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Even if you follow a guide exactly as stated, you will often find when done that you now know more about the steps you took and want to immediately start over so it's closer to what you want.
The same thing happened to me the first few times I installed Gentoo. Could I have migrated the first install to what I wanted at and had at the end? Sure, if I had the knowledge I didn't have at the time.
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by bradrn on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:35AM
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> Honest question: why days?
Because I was a total novice. I barely even knew what a partition was, let alone anything else. Now, of course, I find it much simpler.
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by luxcem on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:38AM
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I've installed arch a number of times, and every times I want full disk encryption I struggle a bit on dm-crypt config and bootloader. Other than that it's pretty straightforward.
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by jonfw on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:31AM
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If you know most Linux file systems well, you would probably choose one in a few seconds. If nobody has ever asked you to pick a file system before, you could probably spend a couple of days researching.
I think there’s a lot of decisions like that to make in Arch
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by sancho_panza on Friday November 25, 2022 @12:11AM
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I often have to boot back into the live media because I forgot to install a tool like iwd while chrooted. This information is not included in the single page installation guide. Maybe it’s those scripts i’m unfamiliar with that would shorten the feedback loop.
Honest question: why days?
I have installed arch multiple times in the past decade and I don’t remember anything exceptionally out of the ordinary. You just follow the step-by-step instruction and you are good to go.
It’s all fairly standard: boot on a live cd, get internet, format the disk, mount, arch provides a script to install the base and another to change the root and it’s vanilla Linux config from there.
Edit: Hmm, I guess how to configure a vanilla Linux might be quite complex for someone who has no idea of how to do that. I might have answered my own question actually.