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milesthemaker

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Registered: 2021-01-23

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Can I use the same guide to install in VBox?

Just to make sure I'm not doing something wrong, once I set up a virtual machine and add the arch ISO, can I follow the same guide I would for a normal installation of Arch?
Thanks for the help -Miles

Slithery

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Re: Can I use the same guide to install in VBox?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … as_a_guest

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smitropoulos

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Registered: 2020-04-14

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Re: Can I use the same guide to install in VBox?

I wanted to try different bootloaders last week, and decided to not mess with my PC and try them on a vbox (v6.1.16 on Windows) at work (heh).

I did not really use the wiki since I remembered most of it, but the wiki is what I have always read.

What I did in order:

* Enable UEFI in vbox
* Boot up from ISO.
* Format the disks (300MB ESP, the rest Linux System)
* Make the filesystems
* Mount them on /mnt and /mnt/boot (the ESP on /mnt/boot)
* Edit hostname, /etc/hosts, set the time (ln -sf /usr/share ... )
* arch-pacstrap onto the new installation with linux, linux-firmware (which you can skip on VMs), vim, base-devel
* Get the /etc/fstab ready
* arch-chroot into the new installation and do users and passwords
* Handle networking
* Install all the bootloaders! (the UEFI ones)
* Boot into the new installation

Last edited by smitropoulos (2021-02-05 07:59:38)