Just wondering, because vanilla Arch Linux comes with a script which automates the install. Would I be getting more options if I installed this?
There isn’t a list of what is different anywhere but they are quite different.
- EndeavourOS isn’t an Arch installer. We also provide the packages and tooling that make up EndeavourOS
- The EndeavourOS installer uses different settings and installs different packages
- The experience is quite different using our GUI installer based on Calamares and the script-based archinstall
The archinstall script crashes during the installation at some point if you do a custom partitioning and filesystem setup.
If archinstall is “broken”, that is, the crash is reproducible on every system, I would think that Arch developers will appreciate if someone who has used it to file a detailed report for them to have a chance to fix the issue:
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I have only tested it multiple times on a virtual system, so don’t know how it would react on an actual physical system.
Alright.
One might interpret
as a general statement without the addition of any qualifications which would be:
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Sorry English isn’t my first language, I don’t quite understand what you are saying?
The archinstall script is fairly fragile. If it is crashing, there is probably something you didn’t do in your manual disk setup that it expects to be done.
When you say:
this is an affirmative statement which would mean that it does crash always, everywhere and for everyone if they do a custom partitioning …
A qualification would be:
With this, it is not that obvious that archinstall does actually crashes for everyone, everywhere …
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Yeah, I didn’t want to try it on a physical system because I didn’t really trust it would be different on a physical system if it crashed each time(about 10x) I did a custom partitioning and filesystem setup in a vm.
To be fair, I doubt the issue that they are seeing has anything to do with a VM.
archinstall fails in many situation. It has very little error handling or enforced rules so it is very easy to do something it doesn’t expect which will result in an install failure.
The power of archinstall is that you can use it create scripted installs that meet your exact needs. While it works as an interactive installer, it requires care to do everything right. Especially when you are partitioning and creating filesystems.
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That is why I suggested to report the issue to developers with the details on how you went about to do the custom partitioning, which parameters you chose etc.
I don’t think the VM factor is relevant here. Though I might be wrong.
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Ok so I’m going through the Endeavour OS install, it’s great and all but even when I booted in the Nvidia option at the start, I can only find AMD options in the GPU drivers to install. Is this ok? I’m supposed to install the drivers after install?
What specific GPU do you have?
RTX 3050, on a laptop.
I believe that if you choose the proprietary drivers when you boot, it will also install those into the system if it detects the nvidia hardware. However, it won’t do that in a VM since it doesn’t detect the nvidia hardware.
Ooooh ok, thank you. I just assumed I had to pick which nvidia driver in the installer, didn’t know it did for me automatically.
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