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Andrew Zonenberg
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Attempting to use arch, btw, in a VM for the first time (to set up a ngscopeclient CI builder).

Coming from Debian... wow this is not a noob distro lol. So far I've had to manually partition the disk in a shell, configure everything from the keymap to the time zone by editing config files or creating symlinks. There's no top level install tool as far as I can tell.

And grub didn't auto detect anything so now I have I think a fully installed system but I'm stuck in a grub shell and have to boot manually (and I can't figure out how to get the virtual boot order to boot cdrom-first and go back to the installer without wiping the whole virtual hard drive and starting over)
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Josh Simmons · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqqv5atqz9k9c54q8c28kra6sfata0wk7w7x5gkrnde8vmxe5gt00q8mmv7s the install tool is called archinstall, you can run it from the live image https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall (not sure how the output of said tool goes for a vm configuration ...