The Fu-rch Arch Linux GUI installer is in alpha stage and is available as a live DVD.iso. for testing.

For more info and the download, http://www.jeffstory.org/wordpress/

Good, I hope it turns out well!

Looks good Jeff. Congrats. Maybe your work can get picked up by Arch officially, but if not, make your own fork!

Thanks for the words of encouragement guys. Just rolled an updated version of Fu-rch tonight.

This version brings a new feature, edit the list of installed package on your new Arch installation. Not yet ready to release for testing until I get a chance to do so.....

As for an official Arch installer, the community tends to be quite hostile at even the mention or a question regarding a GUI installer. I'm more expecting the Arch devs to figure out a way to intentionally break this installer with Arch packages than to welcome it.

I'm not interested or able to fork Arch. There are plenty of quality examples at this stage in the game though. Antergos is an awesome looking, 100% compatible drop in replacement Arch fork at this point, and deserves much more attention than it gets. It's available in many desktop versions.

I believe in giving credit where it's due, and my installer is derived from the great work the Antergos crew did on their cnchi installer.

I just want to provide a nice, easy to use GUI installer for authentic Arch Linux. Something for the intermediate skill level Linux users wanting to take their skills to the next level.

Install Arch using my GUI installer as a "learning distro" on a separate partition. Break it, learn to fix it, repeat, and if need be, reinstall it and start again as a last resort! When you can keep it running without reinstalling for a year or so, consider trying it full time.

Made some progress since the original post. I've set up the project on SourceForge. Downloading the DVD takes about 15 min from their server. I've also made several updates to the installer. It is now in beta stage, and is at version Fu-rch-0.9b-5. Many improvements made since the alpha versions. There is now a place to report bugs also.

Fu-rch project (download DVD) on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fur...xguiinstaller/

Report bugs: http://www.jeffstory.org/wordpress/?p=783

My blog for more details on the project: http://www.jeffstory.org/wordpress

I'd like to encourage testers to try it out in Virtulbox or better yet, on real hardware and give me some feedback.

Thanks, Jeff

ok Jeff - feedback awaits

+ for good work, nicely done..... keep going this way......
- I have 2TB hdd and installer doesnt seem to recognize full 2TB. It keeps telling me I have 2 partitions 1TB each. Why?

pingwinowiewck,

Does using gparted in the live DVD/CD show 1 or 2TB?

2TB as one big partition so its ok.
Ive used gparted to format it, than run the installer. All went smooth. Thank you