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Gopal

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Registered: 2024-06-08

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Archinstall script not working with manual Disk Partitioning

I have tried with archinstall command during arch-linux installation with manual Disk Configuration (created with fdisk command)

/boot = 2GB [Formatted with FAT32]
/ = 100GB [Formatted with ext4]
/home = rest of disk [Formatted with ext4]

The installation starts but never completes.

The installation finishes every time with default "disk configuration only"

Please suggest any workable scrip with Arch-linux installation for manual disk partitioning.

Or any other easy installation process for pure Arch-Linux installation with manual partitioning.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,913

Re: Archinstall script not working with manual Disk Partitioning

Moving to Guided Installer subsection.

Afaik this has always been a paint point with the installer, which they seem to have been unable to resolve.

You may not like the answer, but given your intentions the only other way is to do it properly the "manual" way: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

FWIW reading some more on current archinstall, it should have an integrated option to partition manually within Archinstall, is it that which doesn't work or did you partition things beforehand and want to assign "mount points" to the script?

But maybe thorxed can chime in here. Generally questions pertaining to bugs in the archinstall script might find a better target audience on their issue tracker: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/

FWIW it seems they've made a release 3 days ago which addresses a bug with manual partitioning: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/3954 not sure whether that has already landed on the december ISO, technically it should have