Difference between revisions of "UEFI - Install Guide"

UEFI - Install Guide (view source)

Revision as of 16:55, 9 July 2015

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→‎CLI installer: remove auto partitioning stuff and try to simplify and clarify the steps

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 * 6. Now, we are in the CLI Installer.
-''Choose 2.'' Use testing installer (EFI support).
 * 7. ''Choose 1.'' Set date and time - an easy intuitive configuration.
-* 8. Now, ''Choose 2.'' Disk(s) preparation.
+==== Disk preparation ====
-Go to ''2. Partition Hard Drives'' or follow the instruction in the next point ''8.1'' to automatically partition the entire disk.
-* 8.1 If you want to use the entire disk, and don't want to manually configure your partitions, you can choose ''1. Auto-Prepare.''
+{{Tip|If your hard disk is already partitioned the way you want, then this step can be skipped.}}
- Attention: I don't know for sure if using the
- Auto-Prepare option of the installation will be
- successful as I always prefer to manually configure
- my partitions. Give it a try, if you have problems
- then please post here: [http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=5268.0]
-''If 8.1'' (Auto-Prepare) was chosen, you skip the process below and go to point 9 below.
   * When you ''click 2.'' Partition Hard Drives,
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   * Partition your disk(s) as you want (Instructions on
     manually partitioning are beyond the scope of this
-    guide.)
+    guide, some deatils are available [[Cfdisk_Basic_Partitioning_Scenarios|here]]).
   * ''Important Step:'' Create a 50~250MB EFI Partition,
     mine is 100MB (code: ef00)
 {{Note|If you already have an EFI partition (for example created by Windows), then that can be also be used instead of creating a new EFI partition.}}
-  * When you are done, go to ''4. Set Filesystem''
-    ''Mountpoints.'' (Again, instructions on manually
+==== Setting filesystem mount points ====
-   partitioning are beyond the scope of this guide.
-  * ''Important Step:'' Format the EFI Partition you
+  * After the partitioning is done, go to ''4. Set Filesystem''
+    ''Mountpoints.''
+  * '''Important Step:''' Format the EFI Partition you
     created as '''VFAT''' and mount on /boot/efi
 {{Note|If you are re-using your EFI partition (that was created by Windows previously (or any other OS), then there is no need to format. Formatting will wipe the previous bootloader. Only mounting the EFI partition as '''/boot/efi''' is required in that case.}}
+==== Installation ====
 * 9. ''Choose 3.'' Install system and wait...