• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=horsedrowner;38072009]If you like to know a bit about how Linux works and you're not afraid to try, sure. There's a [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide]Beginners' Guide[/url] over at the ArchWiki. It's not really all that hard, and though you might fuck up a few times, you'll learn a lot about it. However, if you don't really care and just want to use Linux, probably not. It's mostly a matter of preference. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora are a few popular ones, from the top of my head.[/QUOTE] don't get ubuntu though, you most likely won't be able to stand unity arch is great if you want to learn how to use linux tbh - you're chucked in at the deep end but the documentation is fantastic so you end up learning shit really fast
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;38086202]friend challenged me to it in my linux class [editline]18th October 2012[/editline] figured this would be the answer, but i suck at vi[/QUOTE] You could use ed commands, waitamin... [code]$ echo "a > <TEXT HERE> > . > w > q" | ed <FILENAME HERE>[/code] (The > of course representing the "continue command" prompt)
Was this here before? (12.[B]04[/B] fresh install.) [t]http://imgur.com/wGuqx.jpg[/t] (Even though it is in Spanish, you can guess what I mean easily.) There wasn't a open-source option there before, nor the experimental beta option.
What I'm fairly sure Ubuntu has had nouveau for quite a long time?
nouveau has been a part of ubuntu for a long time also install the non-free drivers if you want any semi-decent performance
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38092559]nouveau has been a part of ubuntu for a long time also install the non-free drivers if you want any semi-decent performance[/QUOTE] Nouveau just gives up on my card and emulates it in the CPU. Xorg won't even start without the proprietary drivers. :suicide:
That didn't pop me up in that window before, i swear there were only the post-launch updates version and current version. Noveau drivers didn't show up, not even when i added x-swat ppa to get the latest beta drivers. BTW: Using a NVIDIA Geforce 9800GT
If you're any good with coding, feel free to help the nouveau team out because they seriously fucking need it. If not then just use the proprietary drivers.
Ubuntu 12.10 doesn't work on my T61, great :v: It just leaves me with a corrupted display. Can't do anything. All I wanted to do was check out a couple of features. Oh well.
Odd, looks like it has Intel or Nvidia graphics so it should work. How far does it get booting?
As soon as X starts the system hangs with a nice corrupted display, apparently whatever was last in memory (Bits of Windows' shutdown dialog appeared for me) [editline]19th October 2012[/editline] Looking it up, it looks like a Mesa bug that appeared in Alpha 2 and hasn't been resolved.. [editline]19th October 2012[/editline] Putting nomodeset in the boot params gets me into a functional system. But it runs like shit. And I can't change my resolution.
[QUOTE=lavacano;38096708]If you're any good with coding, feel free to help the nouveau team out because they seriously fucking need it. If not then just use the proprietary drivers.[/QUOTE] I'd really wish both AMD and Nvidia would help out the open source driver teams. I never understood why their drivers aren't open source. It's not like their products will stop selling by any means at all if it's open source instead of closed source.
We can dream, but there are likely legal reasons why they can't just open source their drivers. Probably full of licensed code and trade secrets.
Should I run into any problems bootcamping a mid 2012 13" macbook pro with debian? [editline]19th October 2012[/editline] probably will, I'm just mostly concerned with EFI and grub and all that bullshit.
-snip, it doesn't have retina-
[QUOTE=Takkun10;38100471]Should I run into any problems bootcamping a mid 2012 13" macbook pro with debian? [editline]19th October 2012[/editline] probably will, I'm just mostly concerned with EFI and grub and all that bullshit.[/QUOTE] Last week I installed Arch in a dual boot configuration on my 15" 2012 MBP and didn't run into any problems. You should be fine as long as you don't do anything stupid and make sure you backup any important files.
Does anyone know if its posible to use the openSuSe 12.1 repos with openSuSe 12.2? Or even just install an rpm from the 12.1 repo onto 12.2?
Hey guys, I made this neat script that allows you to open/close + mount LUKS encrypted stuff easily: [code]#! /bin/bash ACT="$1" DISK="$2" NAME="luks_$(basename "$DISK")" MNT="/mnt/$NAME" if [[ ! -e "$DISK" ]]; then echo "\$2 doesn't exit!" exit 1 fi function cleanup() { rm -r "$MNT" if ! cryptsetup luksClose "$NAME"; then echo "Unable to close the LUKS container!" fi } if [[ "$ACT" == "mount" ]]; then if grep -qs "$MNT" /proc/mounts; then echo "It's already mounted!" exit 1 fi if ! cryptsetup luksOpen "$DISK" "$NAME"; then echo "Invalid key!" exit 1 fi mkdir "$MNT" if ! mount "/dev/mapper/$NAME" "$MNT"; then echo "Unable to mount it!" cleanup exit 1 fi exit 0 elif [[ "$ACT" == "umount" ]]; then if ! grep -qs "$MNT" /proc/mounts; then echo "It's not mounted!" exit 1 fi umount "$MNT" cleanup exit 0 else echo "\$1 must be 'mount' or 'umount'!" exit 1 fi[/code] Usage: [code][root@jookia-arch ~]# ./luks.sh mount /dev/sdg1 Enter passphrase for /dev/sdg1: [jookia@jookia-arch Staging]% cp /mnt/luks_sdg1/home/jookia/Staging/dump/dump dump -r [root@jookia-arch ~]# ./luks.sh umount /dev/sdg1[/code]
So my 32 GB thumb drive came in and I have it partitioned. 1 GB for swap, 8 GB for Linux, and the rest is NTFS shared between Linux and whatever I decide to plug it into. The reason I'm doing this is because I'm always surrounded by computers and I can't haul my desktop around with me. So, I just boot into my thumb drive now. It booted into Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon) just fine at school and at home, and with some proxy settings I was able to use the school's internet connection. It's pretty cool, and I now have an excuse to use Linux.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;38109061]So my 32 GB thumb drive came in and I have it partitioned. 1 GB for swap, 8 GB for Linux, and the rest is NTFS shared between Linux and whatever I decide to plug it into. The reason I'm doing this is because I'm always surrounded by computers and I can't haul my desktop around with me. So, I just boot into my thumb drive now. It booted into Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon) just fine at school and at home, and with some proxy settings I was able to use the school's internet connection. It's pretty cool, and I now have an excuse to use Linux.[/QUOTE] I'm planning on doing almost exactly the same thing (albeit with an 8GB drive and no NTFS partition). What tool did you use to set up Mint?
[QUOTE=Jcobber;38109159]I'm planning on doing almost exactly the same thing (albeit with an 8GB drive and no NTFS partition). What tool did you use to set up Mint?[/QUOTE] What I did is probably not the way I was supposed to do it, but I used the LiveCD iso in VirtualBox and then I let it install directly to my USB. Built in tools and all. Other tools seem to install the LiveCD version to my USB and that's not what I want, although it may be possible to throw the LiveCD on the thumb drive with something like unetbootin or YUMI and have it install to itself. When I tried that recently with Elementary, it seemed to want to install to my Windows drive though - and that was weird.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;38109061]So my 32 GB thumb drive came in and I have it partitioned. 1 GB for swap, 8 GB for Linux, and the rest is NTFS shared between Linux and whatever I decide to plug it into. The reason I'm doing this is because I'm always surrounded by computers and I can't haul my desktop around with me. So, I just boot into my thumb drive now. It booted into Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon) just fine at school and at home, and with some proxy settings I was able to use the school's internet connection. It's pretty cool, and I now have an excuse to use Linux.[/QUOTE] Atleast that works for you. Never managed to get it working with Lubuntu despite me trying everything.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;38109061]So my 32 GB thumb drive came in and I have it partitioned. 1 GB for swap, 8 GB for Linux, and the rest is NTFS shared between Linux and whatever I decide to plug it into. The reason I'm doing this is because I'm always surrounded by computers and I can't haul my desktop around with me. So, I just boot into my thumb drive now. It booted into Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon) just fine at school and at home, and with some proxy settings I was able to use the school's internet connection. It's pretty cool, and I now have an excuse to use Linux.[/QUOTE] wat Never put swap space on a USB stick, you're going to ruin it.
[QUOTE=neos300;38113660]wat Never put swap space on a USB stick, you're going to ruin it.[/QUOTE] I didn't know. :<
[QUOTE=neos300;38113660]wat Never put swap space on a USB stick, you're going to ruin it.[/QUOTE] Had a USB for many months before realising it. Never did any harm, luckily.
If the swap isn't often used (I never get into the swap on my laptop) you won't have any issues. If it is constantly used it will cost you a lot of reads and writes on the swap file. Still not smart to partition one, although using the standard installer is the only (sane) way I've found to make a nice bootable USB. Is there any problem doing so?
[QUOTE=neos300;38113660]wat Never put swap space on a USB stick, you're going to ruin it.[/QUOTE] Amendment: Never put swap on NAND Flash, NAND Flash doesn't like massive amounts of writes and erases.
Oh yeah. [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211573]I got one of these thumb drives for that copy of Linux.[/url]
[QUOTE=esalaka;38116640]Amendment: Never put swap on NAND Flash, NAND Flash doesn't like massive amounts of writes and erases.[/QUOTE] How would you determine if your flash drive is of this type?
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