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🕒 Fix NTP Sync Issues (Pre-Install)

If your DNS blocks the default NTP servers, archinstall may fail due to time sync errors. Let’s fix that before doing anything.

🧱 Disabling Secure boot

  1. Disable Secure Boot in BIOS temporarily.

  2. Boot Arch ISO.

✏️ Edit Timesync Configuration

Open the systemd-timesyncd config file:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf

Uncomment and update the NTP= and FallbackNTP= lines (or add them if missing).

NTP=europe.pool.ntp.org
FallbackNTP=time.google.com <other-ntp> <other-ntp>

Replace <other-ntp> with additional NTP servers if needed. Keep the originals just in case.

⚙️ Enable and Sync Time

Enable and start the time sync service:

sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd

Then force time sync:

timedatectl set-ntp true

Check the status:

timedatectl status

✅ Ensure System clock synchronized shows yes. This confirms your time sync is now working.

🔐 Update Pacman Keys

To ensure archinstall runs correctly, initialize and populate the pacman keyring.

sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate

🛠️ This step is required: This ensures the package manager trusts official Arch package signatures before installation.

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