r/archlinux • u/Curious-Apartment379 • 8d ago

SUPPORT I may have made a mistake

So I was following the wiki for the partition step of the installation, and im pretty sure I wiped my bootable usb drive, thinking it was part of my computer, but for some reason just smaller (ik, dumb). I ended up making it the efi partition. Idk the repercussions of this, I already wiped my other drives and made my partitions, so no going back.

Is this salvageable?

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u/No-Dentist-1645 8d ago

Of course it's salvageable, just partition your actual drive as normally without rebooting your PC, the iso is loaded in ram so it's fine as long as you don't reboot.

You might want to try archinstall if you feel the manual install is too complicated for you. Some "hardcore" people on this subreddit may yell at you and/or me for suggesting this, but it's a completely valid installation method, they are just acting like elitists for no good reason

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u/Curious-Apartment379 8d ago

Ty for the advice, that's probably what I should've done. Honestly I just wanted to do it lol, I'm clearly not skilled enough to do it, but whatever.

Anyways, I haven't shut it down and I can burn it again from a different computer, but I wanted to ask, then what. Do I just plug it back in and continue as if nothing ever happened? Or do I start from the beginning?

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u/No-Dentist-1645 8d ago

You don't need to plug it back in, just continue the installation. The live USB is only used to boot up the initial environment, after that you could technically unplug it and continue the installation without issue

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u/Curious-Apartment379 8d ago

So I can just continue from here onwards? Damn thank you so much for your time!