Install Garuda on 4Kn Drive

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Garuda doesn’t come with LTS kernel in it’s ISO by default for any version other than XFCE however devs do sometimes compile the ISO with LTS kernel for people facing issue on forum at times like here:

If you are using a ISO that has been compiled with LTS kernel it is going to include that in it’s final installation as well.

So, with that out of the way if you are able to boot into the Live ISO with the “normal” ISO having the zen kernel then sure you can install the LTS kernel into your garuda installation on the disk though you must know that calamares doesn’t provide you with some “way” to define what additional packages you want in your system so to download this:

  1. First finish installing garuda on your disk
  2. once done installing don’t simply hit reboot open the terminal and use garuda-chroot to access the installed OS on the disk following this post:

Please note that it goes on to explain how to install grub you don’t need to do that just enter the garuda-chroot.

  1. Once inside the chroot use pacman to download the lts kernel
pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers
  1. Once done exit the chroot session with
exit
  1. Now you can reboot into your baremetal install and on the grub screen choose advanced options for garuda and use the LTS kernel to boot. Otherwise by default it uses the zen kernel.

Calamares provides the option of manual partitioning if you want to manually configure the partitions but most people just go with automatic and let calamares do it’s job. Apart from this if you are unsatisfied with what calameres offers in terms of partitioning, creating subvolumes etc.

You can create these partitions outside of calamares, even use some other file system while doing so and feed them to calamares installer.

Though do know that garuda uses btrfs snapper to roll back snapshots in case you have bad upgrades. By default, it exclude the home and log directories so only the relevant system parts get saved so knowing that be careful if you wish to use some other filesystem in garuda.

I don’t know about this but won’t you be able to find that out easily by booting with a live usb?

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