(Why/How) I installed Debian the 'Arch' way
Installing Arch is known to be "hard". In this video, I describe the approach I took to migrate away from Arch Linux and install Debian the 'Arch' way, which was, if you guessed, way harder than it should've been.
You can find the transcript of this video here on my website: https://myterminal.me/diary/20210602/...
Segments:
00:00 Welcome
00:32 Expectation vs Reality
01:18 Why I chose the difficult route
02:26 Discovering debootstrap
03:06 Documentation in Debian as compared to Arch
03:34 My path
07:12 Issues during the installation
11:31 Coming up
11:50 Outro
References:
Debian Wheezy: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy
Debian live: https://www.debian.org/CD/live
BTRFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
LUKS: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
debootstrap: https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
pacstrap: https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacstrap.8
My dotfiles on GitHub: https://github.com/myTerminal/dotfiles
How I install Arch: https://gist.github.com/myTerminal/f8...
Debian 11 (Bullseye): https://www.debian.org/releases/testing
Debian 10 (Buster): https://www.debian.org/releases/buster
Snapcraft: https://snapcraft.io
FlatHub: https://flatpak.org
My post on Reddit about Grub installation: / unable_to_install_grub_on_debian
My post on Reddit about failures to install base packages: / facing_an_unusual_error_while_debootstrapping
My post on Reddit about Grub configs: / unable_to_generate_grub_config_on_debian
My post on Reddit about os-prober: / osprober_unable_to_see_a_distro_installed_on
Change in Debian for LUKS2 support: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre...
How I install Debian the 'Arch' way: https://gist.github.com/myTerminal/4f...
Back to Linux series: • Back to Linux (from macOS) (Series)
Soundtracks:
Music from https://www.zapsplat.com
Hardware/Gear:
Primary computer: 2020 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 3) (https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/...)
Secondary computer: Dell Precision T3600 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precisi...)
Audio equipment: Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 (https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-JUG-...)
Software tools:
OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com)
Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org)
GIMP (https://www.gimp.org)
Blender (https://www.blender.org)
Find me:
GitHub: https://github.com/myTerminal
DEV.to: https://dev.to/myterminal
Mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/@myTerminal
LinuxRocks.online: https://linuxrocks.online/@myTerminal
Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@myTerminal
If you read till here, thanks for your valuable time!