Trouble Installing Arch

[Boingo]

Hey Everyone, I am on my 3rd or 4th attempt of installing arch now but for me, I just can’t do it and not one of the many tutorials out there work for me, and this is why:

My partitions do not show up as /dev/sdx , they show up as /dev/nvme0n1px , this would be fine but when I partition /nvme0n1p4 with cfdisk (for efi, swap and linux file system) , they show up in cfdisk but when I do lsblk in the terminal, they do not show up. I assumed it would be fine and just went into cfdisk again and took a picture of the partition names, but then when I go and try to format them, lets say my swap partition, and I do “mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p4p2 (the extra px at the end shows the partitions I made from the /dev/nvme0n1p4) but then it tells me it can not open and there is no file or directory, I couldn’t find info on this anywhere, not one tutorial I watched had it this way, im kinda a beginner, I have tried a couple distros and have been also using Zorin on my school laptop, so please don’t Flame me if Im just being stupid.

 

I am on a Dell G15 5510 and I am trying to dual boot with Win 11, I made  the 175GB simple partition beforehand in windows.

 

I would be very grateful if someone could help me and please let me know if I did not give enough detail, thank you.

[BankHealthy]

Hmm... Why not just use ArchInstall? But I guess you want to install it the hard way to learn more about how Linux works, that's very commendable. I would say that almost everything you need to install Arch is in the Wiki.

 

It shows as nvme because you're using an nvme interface. sdx stands for SCSI Disk which is also used for SATA drives nowadays.

[Boingo]

11 minutes ago, BankHealthy said:

Hmm... Why not just use ArchInstall? But I guess you want to install it the hard way to learn more about how Linux works, that's very commendable. I would say that almost everything you need to install Arch is in the Wiki.

 

It shows as nvme because you're using an nvme interface. sdx stands for SCSI Disk which is also used for SATA drives nowadays.

I tried Archinstall the first time, didn’t work and I actually ended up losing all my windows install because of it, I will try it again now that I have a bit more knowledge, maybe it will work, thanks for the reply!

[BankHealthy]

1 minute ago, Boingo said:

I tried Archinstall the first time, didn’t work and I actually ended up losing all my windows install because of it, I will try it again now that I have a bit more knowledge, maybe it will work, thanks for the reply!

It's been a while since I've installed Arch, I think they have improved the ArchInstall script quite a bit. I'm on Debian nowadays though since no longer need the cutting edge stuff that Arch gives.

 

I may be wrong, but maybe the tutorials who are watching were installing Arch on a VM? Anyways, best of luck. I'm sure someone with more experience in Arch will correct me and chime in.

[Boingo]

19 minutes ago, BankHealthy said:

It's been a while since I've installed Arch, I think they have improved the ArchInstall script quite a bit. I'm on Debian nowadays though since no longer need the cutting edge stuff that Arch gives.

 

I may be wrong, but maybe the tutorials who are watching were installing Arch on a VM? Anyways, best of luck. I'm sure someone with more experience in Arch will correct me and chime in.

Some of them were on virtualbox, some were on the hardware itself, either way it didn’t work, Ill try doing it with the help of the wiki, that should have my answers.

[Boingo]

I figured it out! In windows you must leave the space you want to use unallocated, then in cfdisk when you partition it, they actually show up in lsblk, I am very happy

[BankHealthy]

57 minutes ago, Boingo said:

I figured it out! In windows you must leave the space you want to use unallocated, then in cfdisk when you partition it, they actually show up in lsblk, I am very happy

Nice! Congratulations! Now you can say...

 

"I use Arch BTW!"