Editing Installation Guide (section)

== Manual Installation ==

# From the [https://wii-linux.org/downloads Wii Linux downloads page], download "Latest build's ArchPOWER rootfs (.tar.gz)" and "Latest build's ArchPOWER SD Card files".
# Partition the media. You will need a FAT32 partition on your SD card, and will need an ext4 partition on either the SD card or USB storage.
#* The SD card files take up around 34 megabytes of space. To ensure plenty of space for updating, we recommend at least 256MB for the FAT partition.
#** If you plan to use other Wii homebrew from your SD Card, you probably want to have more space, likely at least 1GB
#* If you are using USB storage for the root, you don't need to partition the SD card.
# Format the root partition as ext4.
#* You will need to ensure that the <code>verity</code> and <code>metadata_csum_seed</code> ext4 features are disabled, because the Wii Linux kernel is too old to support them.
#* <code>sudo mkfs.ext4 -O '^verity' -O '^metadata_csum_seed' -L 'arch' /dev/[root block device here]</code>
# Extract the SD card files to the SD card's FAT32 partition.
## <code>sudo mount /dev/[SD card block device here] /mnt</code>
## <code>cd /mnt</code>
## <code>tar -xzvf [/path/to/boot_files.tgz]</code>
## <code>cd; sudo umount /mnt</code>
# Extract the rootfs.
## <code>sudo mount /dev/[root block device here] /mnt</code>
## <code>cd /mnt</code>
## <code>tar -xvP --acls --xattrs --same-owner --same-permissions --numeric-owner --sparse -f [/path/to/rootfs.tar.gz]</code>
##* You '''must''' use these flags to extract the rootfs properly
## <code>sync; cd; sudo umount /mnt</code>
# Remove the SD card (and root device if you have a dedicated one) from the Linux machine.