How do you dual-boot Arch and Endeavour?

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I have endeavour os on systemd-boot and I want to dual boot with Arch linux. Can’t I just install the Arch Linux ISO on a USB and boot into that from the boot menu, and when I want to boot Endeavour just not go in the boot menu and let it do whatever? I just don’t want to lose my system over Arch Linux lol

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I would suggest installing Arch Linux inside a VM and play with it there.

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yes, i’m thinking of that but I would like to dual boot it or (maybe, in which case this article would be useless) erase the disk and start fresh with arch

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Seeing as how EndeavourOS is pretty darn close to Arch, you could simply uninstall the EOS bits and comment out the EndeavourOS repos and have Arch. I just fail to see the benefit of dual booting EOS and Arch.

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Do you want to install Arch next to your EnOS on the same disk?

What is the filesystem you use for your EnOS?

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I use standard extended4 for EOS. Honestly I would rather also have Arch with ext4, and yes, I do want to install both on the same disk

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That honestly sounds like making arch but dollar store way :face_with_monocle: I want a normal/vanilla Arch install

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I understand that desire, as I prefer my own Arch install to anyone else’s. Have you ever installed Arch via the Wiki?

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The wiki’s way? Nah, I stick to archinstall because I’m lazy, but I always choose minimal so no bloat for my 14 year old laptop. But I have ran through the archinstall around 6 times a month ago when I was tired of Manjaro.

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I am unfamiliar with the archinstall script. Does it allow one to install alongside another OS on the same disk?

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Doesn’t explicitly ask you it but you can modify the partitions to sort of do it but thats scuffed and complicated for me personally

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At the risk of self-promotion, you can take a look at my own Ezarcher project at sourceforge.

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ok. I’ll check it out. Meanwhile I’m thinking of just straight up formatting my disk. Not like I have anything important… yet. Only my very nice swaywm config and thats it

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A few times in the past but as @IDKnix said ever since they released the archinstall script this is the way I tend to go with it

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Back it up on a usb or somewhere and go for it, if it doesn’t work out you can easily reinstall endeavouros, I tend to stick to endeavour over arch as it saves me setting up a few things and is just “easier” to use (easier probably isn’t the right word, just saves me time)