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Arch Linux’s Menu-Based Installer Gets New Disk Preview, FIDO2 Support, and More

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9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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The Arch Linux developers released today a new version (2.5.0) of their archinstall menu-based installer that brings yet another layer of new features and bug fixes to make Arch Linux installations easier.

Earlier this month, I took a look at Arch Linux’s new menu-based installer, which made installing Arch Linux easier for newcomers. Today, archinstall 2.5.0 has been released with a plethora of new features, including FIDO2 (HSM) support for systemd-boot when unlocking disk encryption with a master password as backup during enrollment. Archinstall now lets users use FIDO2 devices as an unlocking mechanism to a partition.

Archinstall’s main menu has been enriched in this release with a new disk preview, a new disk layout preview, as well as a user preview to the main menu.

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