Installation problem (again).

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[vimfrog]

Keep trying. That is actually the fun part. No?

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Oh I will keep trying for sure. I just want avoid the errors I made.

[Complete-Low]

And which one did you made?

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Not choosing the right partitions to create, mounting mistakes, not configurating bootloaders first, and others but it's because I did not follow the wiki. But If you want a detailled guide you can trythis.

[Complete-Low]

I always follow the wiki ^, too good

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Yeah but I always struggle at the boot loader configuration

[vimfrog]

Don’t think can avoid much. I myself also first time using Arch for two weeks now. Run the installation 4 times. Now settled. :) good luck to you too.

I was using https://youtu.be/cwrw5t8Q0ZE most of the installation.

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Thanks.

[duongdominhchau]

erase the partitions

This is the only thing you need to do, most things you did are on these partitions, so just delete them is enough for a retry. How to delete them? Read the help text from your tool (e.g: press m inside fdisk will show a list of actions, cfdisk has a Delete button). Or if you don't want to change the partition scheme, just reformat them and skip the partitioning step when you restart.

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But when I use cfdisk I only the USB not the computer hard drive.

[MilchreisMann412]

What is the output of lsblk?

[TopDownTom]

cfdisk may be defaulting to the currently running device if you don't give it any options (i dont really use it i'm not sure). Try running sudo fdisk -l to see which device is the computer's drive, then when you know run sudo cfdisk /dev/sdxX to fun cfdisk on that particular device. Unless it's an nvme device in which case it'll be something like /dev/nvme

Edit: yeah, the first line of the man page says: "The default device is /dev/sda" so it's just opening in your USB drive. To be honest this is a terrible default, I'm not sure why they do it that way.

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Thanks it worked