Install Arch Linux 2014 in UEFI Mode (Dual Boot Windows 7/8/10)
Why Unix & Linux Stack Exchange recommends it
Unix & Linux users mostly bring it up when a step from the video fails on a current Arch install, such as mkinitcpio missing or fstab generation errors.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2015 to 2020.
What it is
A 17-minute screen-capture tutorial from 2014 showing how to dual boot Arch Linux alongside Windows 7/8/10 on a UEFI machine. It walks through shrinking the Windows partition, partitioning with gdisk, creating swap and root, and installing the base system.
What people said
Cites nyein nyein · 2015-01 · Unix & Linux Stack Exchange · on “I can't create fstab while installing arch”
Firstly, I followed this video ( [this video] ) to install arch, but when I create fstab with genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab the error No such file or directory is shown. So I changed the code genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/fstab , the file was successfully created with the change, but I can't do the next installation step and how can I delete that created fstab file. I followed " Mounting /dev/sda3 but /etc/fstab not found? [LINK] " answers but it didn't work. Why is that /etc/ path missing?
Cites Ali Mostafa · 2019-10 · Unix & Linux Stack Exchange · on “mkinitcpio : command not found”
I am a beginner in Linux when i install arch Linux dual boot , download base system then i go to chroot then make a ram using a command: mkinitcpio -p Linux . when i write it, gives me command not found. i install using this video : [this video] i stop at min: 9.16.
Cites Pierre-Alain TORET · 2020-01 · Unix & Linux Stack Exchange · on “mkinitcpio : command not found”
Since 2019-10-06 [LINK] it's required to install a kernel besides installing the base package. So you have to install either linux or linux-lts (or another kernel of your choice) that will pull the mkinitcpio package as a dependency. The up-to-date instructions [LINK] mention that you have to do : pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware So in your case basically you have to do pacstrap /mnt linux linux-firmware outside of the chroot, and then you will get the mkinitcpio tool available once you enter the chroot. The video you mention is from 2014, so don't take that modification into account. At 6:29 [this video] you can see that the package linux is being pulled when he is installing base, but it