Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes

Archinstall is the wonderful command-line driven installer that was introduced to the Arch Linux ISOs three years ago for making it quicker and easier to get a customized Arch Linux installation. Out today is Archinstall 2.8.2 to further refine that experience...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-2.8.2

[pieman]

have they finally added swap partition support for archinstall?

[ehansin]

I have done plenty of "manual" Arch installations, and I learned a lot from that. But have also more recently done a few installs with this archinstall installer. The installs were easy, gave me access to the options that I need, and the install was the usual Arch fast once kicked off. To add, I like text-based installers.

[rob-tech]

Works well I'm sure, however, EndeavourOS with Calamares is still the way to go.

[Mr.Elendig]

Works well I'm sure, however, EndeavourOS with Calamares is still the way to go.

Not if you want to install arch

[Gabbb]

Not if you want to install arch

The differences between vanilla Arch and Endeavour are so minimal that they might as well not exist. dracut vs. mkinitcpio is the big one & to this day I'm not sure which one is the best choice for an Arch installation.

[Gabbb]

have they finally added swap partition support for archinstall?

I don't know. However this is not a big deal, I strongly recommend not using Archinstall for partitioning -beyond guided install- anyway. Run gparted on a live system (or fdisk xD), quickly set up everything & then run Archinstall.

Also the default swap on zram works quite well & is great for most users today.

[HighValueWarrior]

I don't know. However this is not a big deal, I strongly recommend not using Archinstall for partitioning -beyond guided install- anyway. Run gparted on a live system (or fdisk xD), quickly set up everything & then run Archinstall.

Also the default swap on zram works quite well & is great for most users today.

Defeats the point of an installer in the first place.
Calamares is the way to go .... can not understand why we are on a text based, feature poor and non intiutive option when Calamares exists.

[kpedersen]

can not understand why we are on a text based, feature poor and non intiutive option when Calamares exists.

Because Calamares is a weak bean when it comes to network/serial installation which is widely used within the industry.

[WileEPyote]

I don't know. However this is not a big deal, I strongly recommend not using Archinstall for partitioning -beyond guided install- anyway. Run gparted on a live system (or fdisk xD), quickly set up everything & then run Archinstall.

Also the default swap on zram works quite well & is great for most users today.

I do my partitioning scheme and mount it, then fire up archinstall to do the actual installing. I do a multi-partition layout with btrfs and subvolumes, and archinstall doesn't play nice with that, so I can't use it by itself, but it still saves a ton of time, even with doing the partitioning manually.

If I'm doing an install that isn't my usual setup, I also cheat and use Gentoo's live gui and netboot arch so i can look up the exact names of the packages I want without pissing around in the terminal to find them. Just head straight to the git and start looking them up in Firefox.