Installation Guides

Overview

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For best results, please ensure that Manjaro is connected to the internet prior to starting the installation process.

Installation guides for every release of Manjaro have been provided below for both beginners and experienced users. These guides may also be used to install Manjaro as a main operating system, or within a virtual machine environment using Oracle's Virtualbox. Rebooting your computer (or starting your virtual machine) after connecting your installation media should be sufficient to start the process. If you find that your computer continues to boot into your existing operating system despite this, then check that:

• The ISO Download and/or installation media has not been corrupted, and that
• Your disc drive or USB flash-drive, depending on which you are using to install, is listed higher up in the boot order than your hard drive, which means that it will be booted from first.

Checking and amending your boot order, if necessary, will require either going into your computer's BIOS settings, if installing Manjaro as your main operating system, or into Virtualbox's System Settings if installing in a virtual machine.

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If you already have an existing /home partition be sure to read this section of the wiki first

Guides

• UEFI - Install Guide

If your machine's motherboard runs UEFI/EFI you should read this guide.

• Important hidden .dot files in your home partition

These files can save your time when reinstalling or installing a new distro.

• Partitioning Overview and Existing Partition Tables

Basic overview of partition structure, & useful pointers re. existing partitions. Look here if you have an existing /home partition for options re. your existing config files.

• cfdisk Basic Partitioning Scenarios

How to create two or three partition schemes to install Manjaro.

See Also

• Download Manjaro
• Check a Downloaded ISO Image For Errors
• Burn an ISO File