On Saturday, March 23, 2019 6:05:59 AM CET David C. Rankin wrote:
In the past there was a wonderful "Beginner's Guide" with detailed a detailed install procedure with expanded explanations for each step. When the arch installer went away, it was removed shortly thereafter. It would be worth considering resurrecting the page.
The manual install is by far the way to go as it can be tailored to whatever you need. The only downside is if you have not done one before, the existing Installation guide is much too terse to be of much use for your first manual install. Somewhere there is a happy medium between the Beginner's guide and what we have as the Installation guide at present.
Good luck with your Arch install. It is by far the best Linux distribution that you will ever install.
FWIW, I came to Arch after following the beginner's guide, alone, without help. I trashed 2 VM installs until I grasped everything, then transferred the knowledge to my production hardware using the succinct install guide (not the beginner's guide). That thing brought me here, I would love to have it resurrected :) Cheers, Bennett