/comfyArch

How to DUALBOOT 👭🛡 your desktop with Arch Linux safely!! Extra for raspberry pi 🥧🥧

comfyArch

I will list all my arch rice config files, so you can use them without spending countless hours. Why Arch?

  • It will give you a broader understanding of Linux/Unix. You will know what's going on if things break.
  • The community is active. The wiki is just insane!
  • It's a chance to take control of your computer.
  • Rolling release and update the system with one command pacman -Syu

Sometimes it's going to be frustrating, but it's normal and it's going to take time

“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect,
even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law"
**- Douglas R. Hofstadter **

Dualboot

There's things to do before the installation:

  • Disable Secure Boot in your BIOS
  • Disable Fast Start-Up, it's a process that hibernates the OS rather than shutting it down to speed up boot times. If you boot in your other OS, there's change of data loss if Windows is in hibernation.
  • Detect the boot mode of Windows, Run msinfo32 and check the value of the Bios Mode item. It's a lot easier to partition Arch if Windows boot in BIOS/MBR mode if you've never done it. But UEFI/GPT is the new standart and you will be able to reuse the EFI System Partition instead of creating a new one for the boot.

I strongly recommend you to be connected to an ethernet cable. Because if the driver your network card or adapter is not installed, it will be a real pain. If something like this happens, I will be glad to help you. For help see the page on wireless network configuration

  1. You need to make some space for Arch! run diskmgmt.msc and shrink one volume. It's possible that you can't shrink it as you want because there is file in the middle that can't be move. There's other tools like Partition Wizard that will give you a broader management of the volume.

  2. Burn an iso of arch into an usb key with Rufus
    The parameters are for an UEFI/GPT mode. For a BIOS/MBR boot the file system needs to be FAT32

Read more than one time and carefully the Dual boot with Windows of the wiki and the installation guide. It's really important! You will only need to create a Swap & root & home partition.
Be careful, there's a lot of installation guide with outdated informations. Stick to the wiki

Grub

It should find your Windows boot manager too!
pacman -Syu grub efibootmgr os-prober
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
install grub into the drive grub-install /dev/sdX
Confirm installation
ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/arch/

Raspberry pi

Follow this installation guide
If you want to ssh in your terminal don't forget to install the same terminal you are using in it! For me it's rxvt-unicode. Without your commands won't be detected or you will have some issues.

To connect without a password copy your public key into the authorized key repo into your raspberry pi
Don't forget to generate your locale too!