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Nulliferbones

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Registered: 2023-07-15

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] Can't install with separate home partition archinstall guided

Hello,

So I'm trying to install with archinstall built in guided installer. That's how I'm comfortable.

I've created the
EFI partition
Swap partition
And 2 ext 4 file system partitions

When in the archinstall guided installer
Obviously EFI mounted to /boot
I've tried mounting root to / and home to /home
This resulted in arch awesome desktop only booting to a terminal
I tried mounting root to /root and home to /home
This resulted in archinstall not being able to create the root.

What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by Nulliferbones (2023-07-16 19:25:36)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't install with separate home partition archinstall guided

What are you trying to do?
What are the contents of /etc/fstab   ?
What is the output of mount   ?

What is that a photo of?  Do not post pictures of text.  Post the text.

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Nulliferbones

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Registered: 2023-07-15

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Can't install with separate home partition archinstall guided

What are you trying to do?
What are the contents of /etc/fstab   ?
What is the output of mount   ?

What is that a photo of?  Do not post pictures of text.  Post the text.

Sorry what I was trying to do was in the title. Create a separate/home directory while using archinstall.
Also I have no idea how I would post those to you from a system I couldn't boot into.
So I put a picture of the partition mount layout from archinstall

The problem in the end was I didn't know I needed to type startx to make awesomewm actually boot

Last edited by Nulliferbones (2023-07-16 19:07:45)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,648

Re: [SOLVED] Can't install with separate home partition archinstall guided

As long as you have an Ethernet connection set up, you can do it from the install media or at a command line.  See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … ted_client
Then, just post the link it provides

Glad it is all worked out.  Welcome to the forums

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