[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;25701872]I'm using the do-it-all, I guess. When I choose to wipe my hard drive, it asks me to partition /root, swap, / and /home. I'm not saying that I want a /root partition, I'm just saying that it's asking me for one and if I don't give it the amount it wants, it shits out an error.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure you don't mean /boot?
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;25701872]I'm using the do-it-all, I guess. When I choose to wipe my hard drive, it asks me to partition /root, swap, / and /home. I'm not saying that I want a /root partition, I'm just saying that it's asking me for one and if I don't give it the amount it wants, it shits out an error.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, you need to partition manually. Don't use the automatic option.
You want:
/boot to be formated ext2 and to take up 50M (make it a Linux type)
swap to be formated swap and to take up 100M (make it Linux swap / Solaris)
/ to be formated ext4 and take up the rest of the free space (make it a Linux type)
There's 2 stages to manually partitioning.
First you go in and create the partitions. You can set where they are and the size they take up. You can also set their type.
Then you specify their filesystems and mount points.
Question:
I've gotten to Part II of the Beginners Guide to install Arch. Here's the problem, I need to login through a browser to access the internet (at University, it's the only way to access the internet). How can I do this?
[QUOTE=rieda1589;25709404]Are you sure you don't mean /boot?[/QUOTE]
Yeah I meant /boot.
And that worked, Boris. Now I'm installin mah packages.
[QUOTE=DuCT;25714814]Question:
I've gotten to Part II of the Beginners Guide to install Arch. Here's the problem, I need to login through a browser to access the internet (at University, it's the only way to access the internet). How can I do this?[/QUOTE]
You could use some text based web browser. (The default arch install doesn't have one IIRC). You could either boot the arch CD and chroot into your installed system and install one. If you're dual booting windows or some other OS that has a browser you could download the package. In arch, mount that OS' partition and use pacman -U /path/to/file
Actually, you might not even need to chroot. You might just need to mount your system partitions and tell pacman to use a different root directory.
For the windows partition thing do the following:
[code]
cd /mnt
mkdir windows
mount -t ntfs /path/to/partition windows
pacman -U /path/to/package
[/code]
To find what partition your windows partition is just run:
[code]fdisk -l[/code]
You could also shove it on a USB stick. (do the same for the windows thing but use vfat instead of ntfs, unless your USB stick is formatted NTFS for whatever reason)
What the fuck! It can't read my HD now! I tried installing packages and it failed so I decided I'd try again in the morning. Now, when I go to partition my hard drive, no matter how I do it there isn't any space.
Could you give the output of df -h?
Guys, is anybody familiar with the [url=http://www.elivecd.org/]Elive[/url] distro?
[editline]29th October 2010[/editline]
BTW, check [url=http://oblong.com/]this[/url] out ASAP!
[editline]29th October 2010[/editline]
And this, [url=http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html][B]OH GAWD THIS![/B][/URL]
Okay so after rebooting it saw all the HD space, but when I tried installing the packages I got ERROR: Could not umount /mnt/proc
I'm so happy I got my file server running proper now. Much better. And it runs faster too than it did with Windows 2000 Server. The only "issue" I have is that I can't rename files over SMB. No big deal though, I just do it through FTP.
[QUOTE=Boris-B;25716847]You could use some text based web browser. (The default arch install doesn't have one IIRC). You could either boot the arch CD and chroot into your installed system and install one. If you're dual booting windows or some other OS that has a browser you could download the package. In arch, mount that OS' partition and use pacman -U /path/to/file
Actually, you might not even need to chroot. You might just need to mount your system partitions and tell pacman to use a different root directory.
For the windows partition thing do the following:
[code]
cd /mnt
mkdir windows
mount -t ntfs /path/to/partition windows
pacman -U /path/to/package
[/code]
To find what partition your windows partition is just run:
[code]fdisk -l[/code]
You could also shove it on a USB stick. (do the same for the windows thing but use vfat instead of ntfs, unless your USB stick is formatted NTFS for whatever reason)[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the help, but I decided to hold off from installing Arch till I get back home on Thanksgiving, the internet is just a nuisance to get to work at Uni.
[QUOTE=Demache;25734053]I'm so happy I got my file server running proper now. Much better. And it runs faster too than it did with Windows 2000 Server. The only "issue" I have is that I can't rename files over SMB. No big deal though, I just do it through FTP.[/QUOTE]
You also need to rename your CDs.
[QUOTE=Prefan;25708425]Fuck Wine and compositors. Ever since a few months ago, I can't play any game with Wine for more than 2 minutes; whatever compositor manager I have running slows down my entire system to a crawl, forcing me to either kill Xorg or restart. Has anyone else had this issue? I find it too much of a hassle to disable the compositor manager, especially when I'm doing gmod dev, alt tabbing back and forth.[/QUOTE]
Which window manager are you using? Compiz is really laggy with games. I prefer metacity.
I shall attempt to install arch in virtual box tomorrow
If I succeed in doing so
I will make a partion on my hard drive and have a go
[editline]30th October 2010[/editline]
Should I get Gnome, KDE, fluxbox or what
DE or WM is all about personal choice. I personally like OpenBox + Tint2 + SLiM + Feh.
Go ahead with arch, it's a good learning experience
[QUOTE=Boris-B;25757402]DE or WM is all about personal choice. I personally like OpenBox + Tint2 + SLiM + Feh.
Go ahead with arch, it's a good learning experience[/QUOTE]
Seconded. I normally go Openbox,Xfce4-Panel,Thunar, and feh. Right now I've got those - Xfce4-Panel + tint2.
Let's say I wanted to write a script that would toggle the 'Emulate a Virtual Desktop' setting in wine, and toggle compositing, I have no idea how to do that, can someone point me in the right direction please?
-Snip-
When I rebooted I went into the live cd mode
[QUOTE=eXeC64;25749342]Which window manager are you using? Compiz is really laggy with games. I prefer metacity.[/QUOTE]
I've gone through the vast majority of them. xcompmgr, cairo, metacity, XFCE's wm, KDE's wm.
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;25746219]You also need to rename your CDs.[/QUOTE]
But that requires buying sharpies. And I don't have money for such luxuries.
[QUOTE=Demache;25767802]But that requires buying sharpies. And I don't have money for such luxuries.[/QUOTE]
Heh I use pens. It takes a lot of finesse, patience, and a gentle touch, but it can be achieved without scratching it.
I am having trouble with installing gnome on Arch
I did pacman -S gnome
and it installed
Now I have having trouble starting Gnome and the graphical login interface
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
that will probably work. if it does, go ahead and add it to your defaults.
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;25769136]Heh I use pens. It takes a lot of finesse, patience, and a gentle touch, but it can be achieved without scratching it.[/QUOTE]
We don't have pens either. Everytime I find one. They are empty.
Ze pens! Ze do nothing!
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;25775206]I am having trouble with installing gnome on Arch
I did pacman -S gnome
and it installed
Now I have having trouble starting Gnome and the graphical login interface[/QUOTE]
Put this in ~/.xinitrc
[code]
exec gnome-session
[/code]
Then use 'startx' to start a gnome session
[QUOTE=eXeC64;25775830]Put this in ~/.xinitrc
[code]
exec gnome-session
[/code]
Then use 'startx' to start a gnome session[/QUOTE]
Neither yours or ButtsexV2 things worked for me
I don't know where I messed up
sync your shit try again
what would be the best way to back up directories to another computer on the same network at a certain date?
[editline]1st November 2010[/editline]
both running linux of course
Probably rsync + cron
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