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leou

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From: Westminster, CO

Registered: 2020-08-06

Posts: 9

archInstall - installing Arch over existing Linux in Win 10 dual-boot

I would like to Install Arch over an existing Linux OS using the guided installer 'archinstall'.
I am running dual-boot on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 8 with Windows 10.
These are the existing partitions as listed by fdisk.

Device              Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1       2048     534527     532480   260M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2     534528     567295      32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3     567296 1461487615 1460920320 696.6G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 1998360576 2000408575    2048000  1000M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 1461489664 1998360575  536870912   256G Linux filesystem

Partition '/dev/nvme0n1p5' is where I want to install Arch. Is this possible? I don't know how to specify in the partitioning step.

Any advice or hints would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Leo

Succulent of your garden

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Registered: 2024-02-29

Posts: 281

Re: archInstall - installing Arch over existing Linux in Win 10 dual-boot

Had you read this ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_b … stallation

Not sure if you can do it with the install script. I never use it. But there are the guidelines to make the dual boot possible.

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-05-25 00:21:15)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 63,955

Re: archInstall - installing Arch over existing Linux in Win 10 dual-boot

archinstall supposingly has an option to re-use an existing partition table - and  at least a recent adjacent bug: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/3348 - so have backups.
You'll have to learn the stuff in the installation guide anyway at some point. Making it "while installing the system" will prevent you from creating more problems that you then also have to fix.

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