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I wrote a Guide on how to install Arch Linux with BTRFS and (almost) Full Disk encrytion (veprogames.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by vepro to c/[email protected]

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This covers obtaining the ISO, connecting to Wi-Fi, partitioning, formatting, mounting, installing, setting up encryption and installing GRUB, in one article. Also includes some tips, like quickly mounting from install medium. Maybe this helps someone.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice birds part. Where did you learned that?

[–] vepro 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean with "birds part"? Learned from YouTube Videos, Arch Wiki, and experimenting on bare metal and in Virtualbox. Hardest part for me when installing Arch 1st time was partitioning and bootloaders

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry. It should be BTRFS

[–] vepro 1 points 1 year ago

It was from a GitHub Gist but idk which exactly it was, there are multiple. Keep in mind some files need to have copy-on-write deactivated (swapfile, VirtualBox disk images). The Arch Wiki mentions when copy-on-write should be turned off for a file