How I Install Arch Linux (the hard way).

Installing Arch is no easy feat, and adding full disk encryption can be overwhelming for many beginners.

In this video, I walk you through how I install Arch from scratch, with full disk encryption.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:22 Checking out our hardware
00:01:32 Download the installer
00:02:16 Verify installer Image
00:02:47 Flashing installer to usb
00:03:58 Setting up ssh
00:05:05 Partitioning disks
00:08:13 Adding full disk encryption
00:09:15 Setting up our volumes
00:10:16 Setting up our filesystems
00:10:57 Mounting our disks
00:11:36 Installing Arch!
00:12:45 Decryption on boot
00:13:29 Installing our bootloader
00:15:50 Adding home partition to decryption table
00:16:42 Setting up the clock and NTP
00:17:22 Adding Locale information
00:17:57 Adding a hostname
00:18:10 Setting up users
00:18:53 Sudo access
00:19:19 Installing Network Manager
00:19:35 Adding Gnome Desktop Environment
00:20:13 Installing Microcode
00:20:40 Reboot into our new system

[dreamsofautonomy]

Just a heads up: I do not encrypt the boot partition in this video, which means your keyfile can be compromised using another live ISO image.

If you want to be extra secure, skip the step for putting the keyfile in the FILES=() line in the mkinitcpio.conf This does mean you'll have to enter your password twice, however.

I have another video in the pipeline where we'll be looking at different options for securing the boot partition in this setup as there are a few options to achieve this each with their own caveats!

Thanks to everyone who pointed this out

[Klusio]

Insanely well-made and aesthetic video!
I use Arch btw

[grantstoltman]

Did a new Arch install last week so the release of this was perfect timing. I walked through step-by-step exactly and ran into zero issues. The only "maybe" error I noticed was the annotation for a typo in your original code at 14:12. Annotation "should be /dev/nvme1n0p3" should actually be "/dev/nvme0n1p3"

[orangejuche]

Excellent video, cleared up some of the problems I'd encountered installing Arch in the past.

[joetheman]

Another super easy and more powerful USB tool would be Ventoy. You simply install Ventoy on to the USB thumb drive. It sets itself up as bootable. Now you can drag as many Linux .iso as you want or can fit on the drive. Ventoy will automatically add them to it's menu. When you boot from the Ventoy drive a nice looking menu is displayed listing all the different Linux .iso you have available. You can even put other OS on there too. It is the easiest way to make a multi OS bootable drive. Pretty cool option.

[denji-]

dude i feel like your video gave me the best first arch install i could get!!..(especially partitioning)..awesome stuff

[kadn]

I followed the entire guide with encryption aswell everything worked amazing great explanations!!!!

[YusufKhalifadev]

the video super enjoying to watch
keep it up bro, looking forward for your next arch video

[wbotktx]

I'll probably never need this tutorial but I appreciate your attention of detail. Good job!

[devbites]

Great video detailing the process step by step. Most appreciated!

[robinld]

Excellent and informative video, I think this may give me the nudge I need to finally take the lunge on arch - have subscribed and look forward to seeing what you upload in the future :)

[metal-beard]

This was really informational video. Looking forward to more.

[felixfourcolor]

Thanks to you that I know you can use SSH to install from another device. This makes the installation process so much more convenient, I wish the arch wiki included this tip.

[rubipowahsupernombre]

Nice video! I wish I've seen this one while installing arch manually.

[MuhammadNurIslomToxtamishhoji-]

you explained all of this so easy, for a moment I thought maybe it's easy :D

[JTCF]

Cool! I really liked this video. I have been using Arch for a long time, and I'm used to installing it manually, didn't have a chance to test the new and shiny arch installer. Although my partitioning is very simple, ESP plus root and no encryption. But I do use a very much custom graphical environment, Sway with much of additional cosmetic apps.
Now I am using gentoo and I think the handbook currently is much better than the previous time I tried to do it. I've decided to try out gnome as well, and the installation turned out to be extremely simple because you pretty much just select a profile and tell portage to compile and install everything. I decided to keep using systemd, thankfully the gentoo documentation has improved a lot and supplies much more useful information for systemd profile users. And also I recently transitioned to UKI system, I can boot my linux system even without a bootloader, cool! But I do use rEFInd for dual-boot/triple-boot nicely.
Oh, did I mention I have 2 linux systems in one btrfs partition with roots divided into subvolumes? Yeah, pretty cursed yet cool I think.

[ancestrall]

Thanks a lot man thanks to your tutorial and another website that I used as a complement the Arch installation went smoothly

[momensy]

Bro we need a video for your terminal setup including tmux and neovim.
Great video btw ❤

[brainstormsurge]

Would love to see a video on how to setup a self-hosted password manager and encrypted backup. I know there's other videos out there but I just love the way you present things.

[TerminalzPain]

I don't use Arch, but if I ever did go to install it, I would deffo follow this guide, really well made!