General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=leach139;36890440]New Arch install media released, and it's no minor update to packages, oh no.
[URL]http://www.archlinux.org/news/install-media-20120715-released/[/URL]
[URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Install_Scripts[/URL]
God have mercy on us all.[/QUOTE]
I like it.
Feels a bit like installing gentoo, except the compiling part.
Time to write a script for me to automate the process a bit.
For me, this is a good thing, because I always had problems with installing the bootloader, and had to manually install the bootloader by chrooting in the install, and installing mbr + grub/syslinux.
Edit:
Currently working on a script similiar to the archlinux legacy install menu, so far so good.
using dialog to create the menu.
[QUOTE=horsedrowner;36894606]I've had nothing but problems since they introduced the signing. Pacman key init doesn't do anything for me, and in the case it did work, half of the packages didn't want to verify or whatever.[/QUOTE]
[quote]The pacman keyring is automatically initialized on bootup. Therefore signature verification is available on the live media and will work out of the box on the installed system.[/quote]
[QUOTE=horsedrowner;36894606]I've had nothing but problems since they introduced the signing. Pacman key init doesn't do anything for me, and in the case it did work, half of the packages didn't want to verify or whatever.[/QUOTE]
The guide on how to get pacman-key to work was very simple. I cannot comprehend how you would not get it to.
Guys, i'm pretty noob on linux, and after 1 week of using mint in both netbook and desktop, it started to give me gnome, unity, and all kind of desktop environment errors, except in xfce (which im running to write this) in both computers. I am no longer interested in Linux Mint, and i want to switch to Ubuntu, as i don't have more knowledge to use more "advanced" distros. Could anyone explain how i could switch my 50 gb partition to Ubuntu? Thanks
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;36900631]Guys, i'm pretty noob on linux, and after 1 week of using mint in both netbook and desktop, it started to give me gnome, unity, and all kind of desktop environment errors, except in xfce (which im running to write this) in both computers. I am no longer interested in Linux Mint, and i want to switch to Ubuntu, as i don't have more knowledge to use more "advanced" distros. Could anyone explain how i could switch my 50 gb partition to Ubuntu? Thanks[/QUOTE]
You don't. You could save your /home if it was separate and you could backup all your stuff, obviously, but you'll have to reinstall which usually means you want to format the partition.
[QUOTE=esalaka;36899408]The guide on how to get pacman-key to work was very simple. I cannot comprehend how you would not get it to.[/QUOTE]
My problem mostly is that pacman-key init is either too slow or doing nothing, or I'm simply impatient.
Aside from that, the problem wasn't getting it to work, but simply because it was a pain in the ass to use.
[QUOTE=esalaka;36900760]You don't. You could save your /home if it was separate and you could backup all your stuff, obviously, but you'll have to reinstall which usually means you want to format the partition.[/QUOTE]
Well, data loss is not important. I just want to keep safe the other partitions, without screwing them up.
I don't care if i have to format the partition.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;36900631]Guys, i'm pretty noob on linux, and after 1 week of using mint in both netbook and desktop, it started to give me gnome, unity, and all kind of desktop environment errors, except in xfce (which im running to write this) in both computers. I am no longer interested in Linux Mint, and i want to switch to Ubuntu, as i don't have more knowledge to use more "advanced" distros. Could anyone explain how i could switch my 50 gb partition to Ubuntu? Thanks[/QUOTE]
If you want to move to ubuntu without loosing your files, then you need to reuse your /home partition on your new installation without formating it (make sure you have the same users on your new install)
or you can save the content of your /home/<user> folder into a tar.gz file, and extract it on your new enviroment.
if you are unsure abour your partition layout or if you have a /home partition, you can post your partition layout, and we can tell you how to migrate your data onto a new installation.
And yes a reinstall is required to change from Linux mint to ubuntu.
When i installed mint into this HDD, i did it through gparted. I made the ext4 (46 GB) and the swap(4 GB), flagged ext4 as boot and then installed filesystem in / and installed mint in the ext4 partition. Now what i want is to format the ext4 partition and install ubuntu. Will i have to do the same that i did with mint, but with ubuntu, or is it more complex?
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;36900839]When i installed mint into this HDD, i did it through gparted. I made the ext4 (46 GB) and the swap(4 GB), flagged ext4 as boot and then installed filesystem in / and installed mint in the ext4 partition. Now what i want is to format the ext4 partition and install ubuntu. Will i have to do the same that i did with mint, but with ubuntu, or is it more complex?[/QUOTE]
I think linux mint and ubuntu have the exact same installer, so its just the same.
[QUOTE=horsedrowner;36900765]My problem mostly is that pacman-key init is either too slow or doing nothing, or I'm simply impatient.
Aside from that, the problem wasn't getting it to work, but simply because it was a pain in the ass to use.[/QUOTE]
[url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman-key#Initializing_the_keyring]It's easy to get it to not do nothing[/url].
I don't see how issuing two commands is a pain in the ass to use.
Got mint replaced by ubuntu sucessfully, thanks for the help guys.
[QUOTE=horsedrowner;36900765]My problem mostly is that pacman-key init is either too slow or doing nothing, or I'm simply impatient.
Aside from that, the problem wasn't getting it to work, but simply because it was a pain in the ass to use.[/QUOTE]
It IS slow as fuck. I decided to avoid using such a thing, since I cannot bare to wait that long, and there are better alternatives to Arch Linux for me, but aside from that key thing, I find pacman really really fast and useful :)
so uh
I just rm -rf'ed a directory that had /dev and /sys mounted on it
as root
and my computer started throwing up error messages.
rebooted and everything is fine, but I just want to know if I did any permanent damage.
[QUOTE=neos300;36907379]so uh
I just rm -rf'ed a directory that had /dev and /sys mounted on it
as root
and my computer started throwing up error messages.
rebooted and everything is fine, but I just want to know if I did any permanent damage.[/QUOTE]
Isn't /dev just full of pseudo-files for connecting to devices? Not sure what exactly goes on in /sys, but if you are still running fine it's probably a similar model of pseudo/symbolic files?
Just installed arch using the new method, damn that was easy.
had a system up and running in 15 minutes.
[editline]24th July 2012[/editline]
Fuck I am dumb
Installed arch with a 110gb Swap partition, and a 2gb / partition
ffs
[editline]24th July 2012[/editline]
oh well, booted from xubuntu CD, and fixed it
phew
Whats the consensus on the best console web browser (links, lynx, etc)?
[QUOTE=neos300;36914989]Whats the consensus on the best console web browser (links, lynx, etc)?[/QUOTE]
I don't see much of a difference in links/lynx.
I always have lynx installed on every system tough.
What would the best distro be for someone who is a fairly technical user, a complete newbie at linux, and is more interested in something a little more hands on than Ubuntu? Arch turned out to be a little too hardcore for me.
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;36915458]What would the best distro be for someone who is a fairly technical user, a complete newbie at linux, and is more interested in something a little more hands on than Ubuntu? Arch turned out to be a little too hardcore for me.[/QUOTE]
Fedora or something, then start doing some stuff. It's really hard to NOT say Arch or Gentoo, but try both of those out in a VM maybe?
+1 for Fedora, or Debian
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;36915458]What would the best distro be for someone who is a fairly technical user, a complete newbie at linux, and is more interested in something a little more hands on than Ubuntu? Arch turned out to be a little too hardcore for me.[/QUOTE]
fedora, debian, sabayon, opensuse, slackware
[QUOTE=neos300;36914989]Whats the consensus on the best console web browser (links, lynx, etc)?[/QUOTE]
If you absolutely have to use a terminal I'd suggest elinks out of personal experience.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;36912164]Isn't /dev just full of pseudo-files for connecting to devices? Not sure what exactly goes on in /sys, but if you are still running fine it's probably a similar model of pseudo/symbolic files?[/QUOTE]
/sys contains the PnP devices connected to the computer.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;36917547]/sys contains the PnP devices connected to the computer.[/QUOTE]
So not exactly mission critical? Is there any harm in losing them or are they created automatically?
It's created automatically. Removing them would basically require a restart.
Well good thing I did that then.
Tried out links, it renders everything terribly.
I'll try out elinks when I get back, i'm on vacation for 2 Weeks
-Wrong thread-
I might as well try in here too:
I bought an Intel Ethernet card to replace the cheap Realtek-based card I got a while ago and it seemed to improve transfer speeds a little, though one of my Samba shares (Transmission's download's folder, if that means anything) is still down to about 16-20 MB/s. Another share on the same drive (SABnzbd's download folder) will go a much more reasonable 88-90 MB/s. Do you guys have any idea why the first share is slow?
Hello guys, I'm running into a small problem here.
Each time I boot into Arch, internet connections do not work. I have to do dhcpcd for it to work. What is the file that needs to be edited to make it execute the dhcpcd command right after it boots?
My wild guess is the .bashrc file, but I'm afraid that if I launch a terminal emulator, it would attempt to reload dhcpcd again, and it would fail. What's to be done to check if a process is already running and ignoring running dhcpcd if it's already running?
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