![]() ![]() If the output says: ls: cannot access '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars': No such file or directory The output should display a bunch of files, like this: To check this, type the following command in the terminal that is in front of you now: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars You should have successfully booted into Arch Linux Installer now.Īgain, we will be installing Arch Linux on an UEFI system, so before proceeding, make sure that your system supports UEFI and you have indeed booted into the Arch installation flash drive using UEFI. Once you are in the boot menu Select the UEFI boot entry for your flash drive. The key you need to press is specif to your motherboard manufacturer, you can do a quick search to find it or refer to the motherboard’s manual. ![]() To get into the boot menu, you will need to press the Esc key or one or the function keys repeatedly. Insert the installation media/flash drive to the computer where you want to install Arch Linux and power it on. It only takes a few wrong words for it to go from “Disk Duplicator” to “Disk Destroyer”. Please be careful when using dd and recheck your output file value(of=). You can use lsblk command to get the name (id) of your flash drive.Ĭhange the if= and of= values with path to your iso file (if), and your devices location (of). If (input file) represents the path to the arch iso and of (output file) is the device id of your installation media (flash drive). Open a terminal and type in: sudo dd if=/home/user/Downloads/archlinux-2020.08.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress & sync On linux you can also use the dd command: It is very simple to use and can flash an ISO file with a couple of clicks. If for some reasons you want to use a GUI app to do so, balenaEtcher is one of the best one out there for Linux.īoth on Windows & Linux based systems, you can use a utility called Balena Etcher. If you are already using a Linux Based OS/Distribution, you can use the dd command to flash the ISO to the thumb drive. Once the ISO file has been downloaded and verified, we can proceed to the next step that is flashing the Arch ISO to a portable drive. First, we need to download the Arch Linux ISO, click here to visit the Downloads page of Arch Linux’s website. ![]()
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