PRoblem solving

did calamares crash?

FIRST THING YOU do
ERASE EVERYTHING WITH
GPARTED
RESTART CALAMARES 

use the magical button to set MBR/GPT
or show the harddisk again

Using gparted to overcoming
partitioning issues

use wipefs to erase all partitions
and all formatting

use sgdisk to erase all partitons
and all formatting

the system is not connected to the internet

stopping and starting calamares

stopping and starting calamares
on ArcoLinuxb

stopping and starting calamares
on arcolinuxd

Extra tip : if calamares hangs
use super + Esc

debugging to help calamares

use calamares in debugging mode
starting from the menu

starting calamares in debug mode
starting from the terminal

starting calamares in debugging mode
and make log file

Extra tip : how to post something
to pastebin.com

there is always a hidden logfile in
/root/.cache/calamares

Help the Calamares team
use probe to give info

Helping the calamares team – send a log file

sending a logfile to pastebin.com
without a browser

Extra tip : how does pacman work
where are its files

sending a log file to pastebin.com
with the hidden browsers

All about partitioning
MBR

mbr the easy way to partition

mbr with root partition and no swap

mbr with root partition and swap

 mbr with root and home

mbr with root, home and swap partition

mbr two harddisks one for root
and one for home

Use mbr and swap to file

partitioning

efi systems

efi installation with all possible options
root
root and home
root, home and swap

efi installation
with root, home and swap

partitioning with

EFI encryption

AUTOMATIC encryption FOR MBR
root and no swap

Automatic encrypted installation for EFI without swap

encryption manual setup with EFI , root and no swap

encrypted automatic setup with mbr, root and swap to file

encrypted automatic setup with mbr and swap (no hibernate)

More than

one Operating System

installing 4 operating systems
on 1 harddisk

4 operating systems
on 1 harddisk
replacing one partition
with another OS

WINDOWS
RELATED

first install Windows
and then Linux

first install Windows
and then Linux
and then replace linux again

Install Windows on one harddisk
Install Linux on another harddisk

Install Windows and Linux on the same hardisk
but keep the UEFI partitions separate
Linux uefi is in the middle of the image

changing the default boot
dual boot windows and then linux

PLaylist on Youtube
Windows and Linux

information about Calamares

how does calamares work
non technical

Talk from Adriaan de groot
developer of Calamares
overview of the system installer

how does calamares start
automatically

Extra tip : where do you autostart
applications in XFCE

BTRFS
RELATED

How to tell Calamares to use BTRFS by default

DO a manual installation to have btrfs formatting