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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I've installed Gentoo from a stage1 install. I've kept the same KDE Neon install running for over a decade, including moving the 3 SSDs that made up the install to another desktop.

    But I've never managed to successfully bootstrap an arch system.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    What was the problem? I can see that if you don't get past one of the steps described in the wiki, then you're blocked. But I think if one has some experience with shell, CLIs and TUIs, it should be possible to follow the steps until you have a bootable system.

    Is it worth it to try that, maybe through multiple attempts? Idk.