Arch Linux: Monthly Install - 05.2021

FYI: I tried btrfs and it did not support RAID so I switched to OpenZFS and its a much better option.

How did you set a background picture in console?

Hi Ermanno I was doing a install and then I got stuck at the part where you download the install scripts. But it’s asking for password! Is there a way around ?

Hi Ermanno, great tutorial as usual!
In one of the previous btrfs arch installs you made a separate subvolume for snapshots but not in this one. Is it no longer necessary to do so? (or in what cases is it required/useful?)

Thanks for video. Successfully installed archlinux with btrfs.

will this work on bios and mbr partition??

I can't find the last monthly installation you mentioned.

Hi Ermanno, i've following this installation steps and got success, thanks for your great video btw :) but the problem is the Timeshift is keep crash whenever i try to open it. I've tried install the regular timeshift and also timeshift-bin, run 'sudo timeshift-gtk' in the terminal it said that was error from the btrfs partition, something like that. :( I'll update the error message in this comment later, can you please help this?

Edit: Error message are below when run 'sudo timeshift-gtk':

First run mode (config file not found)
Selected default snapshot type: BTRFS
App config loaded: /etc/timeshift/timeshift.json
E: ts: Failed to get partition list.

I have just found this channel. Great subject matter, with informed content of quality value. 👌. Subscribed.

My keyboard is screwed up after the script. It's in some foreign language setup and I'm having trouble changing it because of it.
EDIT: I figured it out by trial and error. Some keys were switched but I found what I needed. Maybe setting the default in the public git to the default eng. would be better. People are used to it.

So what is the password once we did the script reboot to arch??? Should I have replace it in Vim?

while using gnome wayland i ha e problems in obs-studio, there is heavy background noise while recording audio. is this related to pipewire?

This was harder than usual to install!
Thank you!!

very good tutorial I also wanted to install arch linux with btrfs in legacy bios I suffered a bit but I already became more expert although I prefer the installation with light plasma that does not have much bloatdware the bad thing about the session with wayland is that it goes well with nvidia but the gtk issues has too many bugs the session with plasma wayland in arch linux cpu consumption always shoots up, which does not happen with gnome that you recommend to fix those bugs

Great video, detailed explanation. Thanks a lot!

Thank you very much, Ermanno.

Hey Ermanno tried to contact you through your site but I got an Email saying it was undevliverable 0-o Just wanted to ask could you do a give some insight as to why you install the pacages that you do ? searching google or the AUR doesn't give much information to someone who is new to Linux, and distros like EndeavourOs install alot of stuff so I am at a loss as to what I need compared to what I will actually use.

I don't edit the root password or username ....so I don't have idea what's the password now, and I install linux-zen....what I miss?

The premium setup imo is:
Gnome - Wayland - Qtile
Can you make a video about this setup? That would be so helpful

Does everything work the same if you write sda instead of vda? Because I have a sda disk. I would be really thankful for an answer🙏

Creating sub volumes is better or we should create separate partition for other volumes such as home

Why did you mount /dev/vda1 at /mnt/boot and not at /mnt/boot/efi?

The new version of Arch already brings an easy script to install and configure everything, you should make another video based on the script 👌

I just stumbled onto your channel cause of a fellow subscriber in another video, and I'm glad I did.
Great work! Boy is it really useful, lol.
In any case, keep doing what you're doing! You're the best I know at this!

Yes... Unfortunately if you use Archlinux, you have to reinstall each month... Go Debian...

Could you please do next time an install like this but then with encryption also?
And show us at which point exactly we execute "mkinitcpio -P" ?

Copy and paste from the Arch installation guide
Initramfs
Creating a new initramfs is usually not required, because mkinitcpio was run on installation of the kernel package with pacstrap.
For LVM, system encryption or RAID, modify mkinitcpio.conf(5) and recreate the initramfs image:
# mkinitcpio -P

Thank you verry much in advance Ermanno.
Herzlichsten Dank vorab Ermanno :-)

check hummingbird init, please

When I'm generating grub config I'm getting "no snapshot found" Nothing to do. Abort. which results in not booting after reboot. Any ideas?

You wouldn't happen to have the KDE script with Wayland support by any chance? I have an Intel UDH onboard and have no problems with Wayland.

excellent. Just like I wanted. But gonna try the kde as I always want kde :) but gonna put xorg as well

Able to install without any problem. I was able to take advantage of snapshot so doesn't takes up so much space. Thanks.

Is btrfs so superior to ext4 in terms of speed or its just better to make system snapshots?

Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but consider replacing zramd with zram-generator (arch official repo)

Your videos are awesome ❤️😊

Why would one choose timeshift + auto-snap over snapper? Is it because the "writable restore" is more complicated with snapper?

for your next video can you please do an arch install with btrfs subvolumes and encrypted luks

Why didn't you mount the Windows EFI partition in this video? The last install you mounted it Is it because of the BTRFS and Logical Volumes?

Thats the best installation guide with the new features of gnome 40..thanks

Hi Ermanno, thanks for the wonderful guide on Arch 🎉

Kindly upload videos about using gurb2, the advantages / disadvantages of using gurb2 over grub.🙏

And finally, I've installed ArchFromaScratch, and I'm happy -) Thank you, Sir, for your video. It has arrived on time. The installation has been performed with no issues at all. The only thing I had to add later is to restart PipeWire service in /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default because no sound devices were available in gnome after log off/log in (alsa saw everything, but nothing was at a higher level). I have two USB sound cards attached.

Your picture is covering the text so I can not make heads or tails in what you are doing.

Thank you!!

Can someone give me a help? What trying I am doing is the following.
I have 3 sdd. I formatted like this:
/dev/sda1 -> vfat efi partition
/dev/sda2 -> formatted using cryptsetup luksFormat
/dev/sdb -> formatted using cryptsetup luksFormat
/dev/sdd -> formatted using cryptsetup luksFormat

then I opened the encrypted disks as archbtrfs1, archbtrfs2 and archbtrfs3

after that i formatted using:
mkfs.btrfs /dev/mapper/archbtrfs{1,2,3}

after that the usual arch install, with similar subvols as the video.

The trouble I am having is with how do I unlock the all encrypted disks during boot (I used same password for all of them). Is it even possible to do what I am trying to do?