Arch Linux installation shortcut: Evo/Lution

Arch Linux installation shortcut: Evo/Lution

Some people only experience Ubuntu or Mint installation, but have the courage to install Arch Linux. Their learning path is so steep and grim, during the installation process, the number of people who are halfway through may be much larger than the number of people who successfully pass the test. If you have successfully built and configured Arch Linux according to your needs, it has trained you into a well-experienced Linux user.

Even if you have a wiki that can help you provide a guide for beginners, it is still too demanding for those who want to conquer Arch. You need to be familiar with at least terminal commands such as fdisk or mkfs, have heard of mc, nano, or chroot, and strive to master them. This reminds me of the Debian installation 10 years ago.

For those who are ambitious and lack of knowledge, there is an ISO image installer named Evo/Lution Live ISO to save them. Even if it looks like the release version, it does not do anything except to assist in installing the Arch Linux quasi-system. Evo/Lution is a project designed to add more user bases for Arch by providing simple installation methods of Arch, just like communities that provide comprehensive help and documentation to those users. In such a combination, Evo is a Live CD (not installable), and Lution is an installer itself. The project creator saw a huge gap between developers and users of Arch and its derivative releases, and wanted to build an EQUAL Community between all participants.

The software part of the project is the command line installer Lution-AIS, which is responsible for interpreting every step of a general pure Arch installation process. After installation, you will obtain the latest software or any other custom package provided by Arch that does not add anything from AUR.

After the mb iso image is started, a workspace consisting of Conky with an option shortcut displayed on the right and LX-Terminal on the left waiting for the installer to run is displayed in front of us.

After you right-click the desktop or use ALT-I to start the actual installer, a list of 16 tasks that are full and waiting for running will appear in front of you. Unless you know what you are doing, run all these tasks. You can run the task at one time or choose from it, for example, 1 3 6 or 1-4. You can run all the tasks at one time and enter 1-16. Most steps require 'y', that is, 'yes', to confirm. Press enter. During this period, you have enough time to read the installation guide, which can be opened through ALT-g. Of course, you can also walk around and come back.

These 16 steps are divided into two groups: "Basic installation" and "desktop installation. The first installation Group focuses on localization, partitioning, and installation of the starter.

The installer guides you through the partition world. You can choose gparted, gdisk, and cfdisk.

After the partition is created (as shown in, use gparted to divide/dev/sda1 for root,/dev/sda2 for swap ), you can select one of the 10 file systems. In the next step, you can select the kernel (latest or long-term support for LTS) and basic system.

After installing your favorite boot loader, the first part of the installation is complete, which takes about 12 minutes. This is the first time you restart the system in Arch Linux.

With the help of Lution, continue to the second part. In this section, Xorg, sound and graphics drivers will be installed and then enter the desktop environment.

The installer checks whether it is installed in VirtualBox, automatically installs and loads the correct generic driver for the VM, and then sets systemd accordingly.

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