i don't mind doing it again. the thing is even the iw package is not installed so i can't do anything.
will redo the exercise tonight as per your second suggestion. On Mon, 13 Mar 2023, 3:34 pm Iván Zaera Avellón <ivan.za...@posteo.net> wrote: > > after install, my archlinux vm have no configured networking! why is > that? > > IINM the problem is that the configuration you made when installing was > saved to your RAM disk (the one that was loaded from the USB/CD). > However, when you boot after installation you are reading it from the > installed system (the one you mount at /mnt as per the installation > instructions). > > So, that's why it is unconfigured: the network settings are not > propagated from one system to another. > > In fact, you could decide using different tools to configure the network > when installing and then when running the installed system. It's two > different systems of their own. > > > > how do i make sure that networking works after an installation? > > One way is to configure again after first reboot. Another way could be > configuring the network again while in the installation chroot (for > example, if you run iwctl in the chroot, it will save the correct WiFi > password to the chroot's /var/lib/..... path). I have not tested the > second method, though. Don't know if it could lead to any issue. > >
