General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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So I need some help, I tried installing arch linux on my laptop (extensa 5220) but I couldn't seem to get everything right and I decided to try out archbang instead. The install was quite easy, tried installing GRUB but it didn't work (did you install it correctly?) and put it on none instead. Then my entire startup borked and I had to reinstall win7. Can anyone help me set up arch?
For some reason crunchbang looks really fuzzy at 1280x1024 (Main PC), some things are completely unreadable
Would this have anything to do with not having video drivers? Looks fine at 1024x768.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38022384]Would this have anything to do with not having video drivers?[/QUOTE]
Uh, how about you install the drivers and ask again if you still have issues? :v:
[QUOTE=esalaka;38022412]Uh, how about you install the drivers and ask again if you still have issues? :v:[/QUOTE]
Limited LiveCD.
Either way, I haven't seen anything similar on other distributions
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38022384]For some reason crunchbang looks really fuzzy at 1280x1024 (Main PC), some things are completely unreadable
Would this have anything to do with not having video drivers? Looks fine at 1024x768.[/QUOTE]
This was my problem a while back. You'll have to install nvidia-settings (If you have an nvidia card) and save the settings to xorg.conf. If I've remembered correctly.
Guess i'll do that after I dualboot #! then.
Looks really crisp on my 1680x1050 laptop (21")
[editline]13th October 2012[/editline]
And before I fuck up, how should I make #! use the same /home directory as Mint?
During the install process you'll have a chance to partition your file system. You will be able to pick your home partition and tell it to use it as /home. Make sure it doesn't format it or recreate the partition, as you would imagine it wouldn't end well...
If you're too unsure of yourself, (you shouldn't be) you can always set the new /home after the install. All you have to to is move your old home and add an entry to /etc/fstab
Right, thanks. Looking forwards to setting that up later on
On another note, how should I go about creating a windows install USB from inside Linux? I need to reinstall windows on a family laptop.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38032324]Right, thanks. Looking forwards to setting that up later on
On another note, how should I go about creating a windows install USB from inside Linux? I need to reinstall windows on a family laptop.[/QUOTE]
Rip windows disk to ISO, and write iso directly to usb disk with dd?
[QUOTE=Van-man;38032373]Rip windows disk to ISO, and write iso directly to usb disk with dd?[/QUOTE]
What I always do is format the USB to NTFS and flag it boot with GParted, and get all the windows .iso files inside. It's the only way that worked for me.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;38032728]What I always do is format the USB to NTFS and flag it boot with GParted, and get all the windows .iso files inside. It's the only way that worked for me.[/QUOTE]
Went with this, any other way the laptop wouldn't recognize it.
Generally speaking windows doesn't like being booted from an USB stick. I think there are ways of doing it, but you have to do something funny with the ISO. DDing the iso onto the stick shouldn't work.
I just had to format to NTFS, Mark as active and then pop the files on the partition
Archlinux is now using systemd on new installations by default.
Sweet.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;38034643]Archlinux is now using systemd on new installations by default.
Sweet.[/QUOTE]
Gah, I should probably transition to that. I only have 4 entries in my DAEMONS array anyway, so the transition should be painless (I think). Anyone have any trouble with it?
[QUOTE=Boris-B;38033291]Generally speaking windows doesn't like being booted from an USB stick. I think there are ways of doing it, but you have to do something funny with the ISO. DDing the iso onto the stick shouldn't work.[/QUOTE]
Always worked for me.
Oh well, multiple solutions to the same problem :v:
I'm having some problems with Samba and windows, I'm trying to open a folder to the network from my main, but if I try to open it on a windows laptop it says
[quote]You do not have permission to access ||Flubber-LM|Streaming. Contact your network administrator to request access.[/quote]
Any ideas? I have allowed guest access etc.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;38034643]Archlinux is now using systemd on new installations by default.
Sweet.[/QUOTE]
This was problem for me because I had to install it in VMWare and dhcpcd was running before the ethernet driver loaded.
I never did fix that.
[QUOTE=neos300;38036618]This was problem for me because I had to install it in VMWare and dhcpcd was running before the ethernet driver loaded.
I never did fix that.[/QUOTE]
Same thing happened to me; you have to add the module to /etc/modules-load.d/network.conf so that it gets loaded faster.
Turns out my configs were already set up for systemd. Took me a couple commands and a few reboots and now I'm at pure systemd. And it is even faster than before (which I didn't think was possible) which is really nice.
Im new to openSuSe having only really used ubuntu before, and im trying to install codeblocks but it isnt in the repo for 12.2, is it ok to add the repo for 12.1 instead?
Also has anyone used the tumbleweed service? I was thinking of using it so that I wouldnt have to worry about reinstalling t o upgrade
How do I get rid of gnome 3 without fucking up my system. I want to use xfce but I don't want to screw up my setup.
Gnome uses a billion percent of my cpu when I resize a window or move one.
I'm using debian 6.0.6
you know
it'd be nice if distros would start using the e17 snapshots for their packages
[url]http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news/show&l=en&news_id=60[/url]
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38035535]I'm having some problems with Samba and windows, I'm trying to open a folder to the network from my main, but if I try to open it on a windows laptop it says
Any ideas? I have allowed guest access etc.[/QUOTE]
samba conf file pls?
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;38041774]you know
it'd be nice if distros would start using the e17 snapshots for their packages
[url]http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news/show&l=en&news_id=60[/url][/QUOTE]
Most distros worth using have some sort of community repo for these things. Gentoo has enlightenment through layman, arch has a AUR package, Ubuntu has PPAs for it... It's just snapshots and not considered "stable" yet, and is treated as such.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;38044567]Most distros worth using have some sort of community repo for these things. Gentoo has enlightenment through layman, arch has a AUR package, Ubuntu has PPAs for it... It's just snapshots and not considered "stable" yet, and is treated as such.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but its still annoying when I go look at, like, Debian, which is still using a version 10,000 revisions old :v:
And if its still in development software anyway, it'd make sense to at least keep it up with SVN snapshots.. I dunno, maybe I just expect too much.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;38044593]Yeah, but its still annoying when I go look at, like, Debian, which is still using a version 10,000 revisions old :v:
And if its still in development software anyway, it'd make sense to at least keep it up with SVN snapshots.. I dunno, maybe I just expect too much.[/QUOTE]
if it's on an old version in stable/squeeze check out backports, if it's an old version in sid, you can compile it
[QUOTE=false prophet;38041550]How do I get rid of gnome 3 without fucking up my system. I want to use xfce but I don't want to screw up my setup.
Gnome uses a billion percent of my cpu when I resize a window or move one.
I'm using debian 6.0.6[/QUOTE]
[code]sudo apt-get install xfce
sudo apt-get remove gnome3[/code]
I have a feeling that's wrong.
[QUOTE=hpqoeu;38044759]if it's on an old version in stable/squeeze check out backports, if it's an old version in sid, you can compile it[/QUOTE]
its an old version in sid
I just hate installing things without using a distro's package manager, its difficult to remove if it gets mucked up.
[QUOTE=nehkz;38044796][code]sudo apt-get install xfce
sudo apt-get remove gnome3[/code]
I have a feeling that's wrong.[/QUOTE]
The commands are right, i don't know about the package names though
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