General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=IpHa;36336378]xfce-theme-bluebird with faenza-icon-theme
both available on AUR[/QUOTE]
Wooh! Thank you!
[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]
Fuck you Arch! I did it!
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Q9obU.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Pink Spy;36332228]Thanks Moofy, I'm still trying but so many applications and what should be simple actions are taking me forever to learn, and then more often then not, not working![/QUOTE]
I will drop you a PM in a couple of hours.
Just need a bath and some breakfast.
[QUOTE=Noi;36337201]Uh huh, my screen turns off after 1 minute idle. Power-saving shit is disabled in settings, but still - turns off. Ubuntu 12.04, KDE.
HALP.
[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]
I'd like to remove power management shit at all, but I don't know what exactly to delete[/QUOTE]
Maybe it's not your power management?
Pause screen possiblely?
[QUOTE=Noi;36337576]what is this[/QUOTE]
A pause screen?
It's like when you don't use your PC for a chosen amount of time it will hypernate or something.
Maybe it's set to 1 minute by a mistake?
So it turns out backing up hundreds of gigabytes to an encrypted hard drive isn't a great idea. Back to unencryptedness.
Hm, I've got a problem with steam.
I installed steam to my wine drive, and symlinked steamapps. It's working fine on linux, but on windows it just shoots me the error "error: cannot load localization overlay".
I'd like to still be able to play games on windows because so far wine support hasn't been the greatest.
[QUOTE=Jookia;36337694]So it turns out backing up hundreds of gigabytes to an encrypted hard drive isn't a great idea. Back to unencryptedness.[/QUOTE]
Not if you've forgotten how to read from it, no :v:
But why is it bad in your case?
It was just too slow.
On topic though, let's say hypothetically on the one day you didn't have a system backup your main hard drive crashed and now you're on SystemRescueCD chrooted and backing up after fscking the partition. How would you test for disk errors?
[QUOTE=Noi;36338851]Hm, well, I'll look into it... or install arch[/QUOTE]
Arch all the way.
Hours of live CDs, chrooting, my BIOS telling me to 'backup and replace' my current hard drive, I'm back to my system with a full backup.
Jwz was right, "The universe tends toward maximum irony."
Hooray, my wireless chipset works out of the box on arch!
Also, how do you move partitions around?
Reason is my partition layout is like so:
sdb1: swap
sdb2: opensuse
sdb3: 'data' partition (which is redundant since I have a file server at my house)
sdb4: arch
Now, I'd like to get rid of the data partition and move arch down to where it was so I can put an extended partition in sdb4 since I still have 500GB left on the hard drive, but I'm not sure how I can do that without fucking something up.
[QUOTE=neos300;36341566]Hooray, my wireless chipset works out of the box on arch!
Also, how do you move partitions around?
Reason is my partition layout is like so:
sdb1: swap
sdb2: opensuse
sdb3: 'data' partition (which is redundant since I have a file server at my house)
sdb4: arch
Now, I'd like to get rid of the data partition and move arch down to where it was so I can put an extended partition in sdb4 since I still have 500GB left on the hard drive, but I'm not sure how I can do that without fucking something up.[/QUOTE]
Download and boot into this: [url]http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads[/url]
It should be pretty self-explanatory once you've boot into it but if you still need help feel free to ask.
you can try fdisk or parted, but depending on how you set up your OSes it might fuck them up a little bit
check and make sure that /etc/fstab in arch (im not sure about opensuse) references the disks by UUID or label, and not by the device
[QUOTE=Ac!dL3ak;36341891]you can try fdisk or parted, but depending on how you set up your OSes it might fuck them up a little bit
check and make sure that /etc/fstab in arch (im not sure about opensuse) references the disks by UUID or label, and not by the device[/QUOTE]
I don't really care about opensuse, I'm going to replace it soon anyway.
Will set up labels for arch though now.
[QUOTE=jetboy;36341778]Download and boot into this: [url]http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads[/url]
It should be pretty self-explanatory once you've boot into it but if you still need help feel free to ask.[/QUOTE]
I'd go with this. I always (ALWAYS) use PartedMagic for partition resizing, since it's small and easy, and works with WiFi and ethernet so I can surf while it's resizing and moving my shit around (that can easily take 1-2 hours or more)
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36342783]I'd go with this. I always (ALWAYS) use PartedMagic for partition resizing, since it's small and easy, and works with WiFi and ethernet so I can surf while it's resizing and moving my shit around (that can easily take 1-2 hours or more)[/QUOTE]
That is what I'm about to use, just need to wait for the ISO to finish downloading and go find a blank dvd.
[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]
Oh woops problem.
I'm in partition magic, but the problem is I'm moving the partition that grub is installed to, so grub isn't going to work now.
I've installed it into the MBR, anyway to change where it looks for it's files from within this live cd?
[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]
Huh, that's odd.
In partition magic it says my arch partition is still sdb4, even though I deleted sdb3.
How can I change that, I need to make an extended partition in that place. (Or can I make a extended in sdb3?)
Well I installed backtrack but I forgot to deselect installing grub so now I have to install it again.
Forgot my root password and I've been meaning to clean up my installation anyway, so I just decided to reinstall arch :v:
Pfsense has to be the hardest shit ever to install on this hacom router, thing won't accept a usb or a usb cd drive and it has no cd drive and it uses IDE. Curse you repurposed routers.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;36347029]Forgot my root password and I've been meaning to clean up my installation anyway, so I just decided to reinstall arch :v:[/QUOTE]
I find myself reinstalling Arch frequently. If it isn't one problem, it's another. I'm getting the hang of it though. :)
[QUOTE=Funcoot;36348491]I find myself reinstalling Arch frequently. If it isn't one problem, it's another. I'm getting the hang of it though. :)[/QUOTE]
I just get fed up with all of the extraneous packages I don't even remember installing. This time around I partitioned a separate /home so that I don't have to shuffle any of my files over onto a flashdrive before a reinstall (if god forbid I ever reinstall again). I honestly can't bring myself to install X on this one... but then again there are times when it's nice to be able to issue "startx" and then use a few graphical applications and then bail out back to my virtual console. I feel like I can just use the console if I force myself to, namely by not even installing X or any DE/WM at all.
Let's see how long this lasts :dance:
[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]
speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a text-only web browser? I was using w3m but that's in the AUR if I remember and I also like to avoid yaourt or building myself.
[editline]15th June 2012[/editline]
actually it's in extra, but I would really like some input if there are better options.
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so let's say your system backup failed as went to update it and the hard drive permanantly kicked the bucket midway through and rsync deleted your past 5 years of photography and now you're in bed kind of in a mix between running photorec and wanting to cry yourself to sleep. what would you do?
Cut the losses and learn from my mistake.
Then make up for the 5 years of lost photos by running around for 5 minutes with a video camera.
haha. i also lost all of my music, programming projects, passwords and pretty much anything important.
[QUOTE=neos300;36346639]Well I installed backtrack but I forgot to deselect installing grub so now I have to install it again.[/QUOTE]
You *COULD* just chroot back into the backtrack installation and do fixes from something like SystemRescueCD
[QUOTE=Jookia;36349839]haha. i also lost all of my music, programming projects, passwords and pretty much anything important.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me, I should probably backup those important data I have on a RAID 0 array.
Livin' life in the fast lane :c00l:
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36350929]You *COULD* just chroot back into the backtrack installation and do fixes from something like SystemRescueCD[/QUOTE]
GRUB2 detected my arch install for me so I just booted into that and fixed grub.
On a side note anyone want to recommend me a distro? I've got 600GB left and a LVM, so I've got space.
I've used: Arch, Suse, Backtrack, and Fedora.
[editline]16th June 2012[/editline]
Actually, a de/wm recommendation would work just as well.
I don't know what DE/WMs you've tried. I personally like Openbox and AwesomeWM.
e: nvm
[QUOTE=neos300;36353374]GRUB2 detected my arch install for me so I just booted into that and fixed grub.
On a side note anyone want to recommend me a distro? I've got 600GB left and a LVM, so I've got space.
I've used: Arch, Suse, Backtrack, and Fedora.
[editline]16th June 2012[/editline]
Actually, a de/wm recommendation would work just as well.[/QUOTE]
Give E17 a try :v: The default theme is rather ugly but its a good WM that a lot of people look past for some reason. Maybe because its been in development for-fucking-ever.
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