How would I go about mounting a .img file in Arch? I need a filesystem <_<
Planning on building an XBMC media center sometime in the future and will probably put Ubuntu on it. I mainly want to use it to watch things on my living room flatscreen, and also be able to stream the content to all the other devices in the house (My gaming computer, laptop, and ps3, I will have a everything connected to a gigbit switch) Anything I should know about first? I have another computer with ubuntu on it so I do have some experience with it.
[editline]14th February 2011[/editline]
Oh, how big of a partition should I have for the ubuntu install?
At least 10GB :google: tells me.
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;28063700]It's pretty hard to screw up an Arch installation.[/QUOTE]
Not if it's your first time :downs:
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;28063950]How would I go about mounting a .img file in Arch? I need a filesystem <_<[/QUOTE]
[code]
sudo losetup /dev/loop0 floppy.img
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/loop0 /mnt
# do stuff with it
sudo umount /dev/loop0
sudo losetup -d /dev/loop0
[/code]
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;28063700]It's pretty hard to screw up an Arch installation.[/QUOTE]
- My wlan didn't work at first and the solution wasn't in the beginners guide
- My fans didn't turn themselves on, no info about it in the guide
- I couldn't partition my drive properly, it returned an error. Again, nothing in the guide
I didn't have to do anything to screw up my arch installation. I had to find the solutions of above problems on Google. That indicates that you [b]do[/b] need Linux knowledge in order to install Arch Linux.
The beginners' guide doesn't solve everything.
[QUOTE=FPtje;28065550]- My wlan didn't work at first and the solution wasn't in the beginners guide
- My fans didn't turn themselves on, no info about it in the guide
- I couldn't partition my drive properly, it returned an error. Again, nothing in the guide
I didn't have to do anything to screw up my arch installation. I had to find the solutions of above problems on Google. That indicates that you [b]do[/b] need Linux knowledge in order to install Arch Linux.
The beginners' guide doesn't solve everything.[/QUOTE]
Error 17 :byodood:
[QUOTE=Takkun10;28074331]deleted my ubuntu partition in windows and i know if I restart than my PC will not load because it cannot find grub. what can i do so my pc boots right into windows.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Takkun10;28074404][/QUOTE]
Boot from a windows disk and select repair.
So, i want to create a Ubuntu LiveCD. Is there a way to have programs on it too? And have like a default desktop background and such?
Does anyone know of a way to get the Windows behavior of the Alt key + Numpad keys to make an ASCII character to work on Linux? Any distro will do, I just can't live without that.
[QUOTE=Xeon06;28077526]Does anyone know of a way to get the Windows behavior of the Alt key + Numpad keys to make an ASCII character to work on Linux? Any distro will do, I just can't live without that.[/QUOTE]
I had to do this once for making some Spanish accented characters, and I just used a character map program. I'm sure theres a way to do it like with Alt key codes, but I don't know how.
well there's ctrl+shift+unicode key
got most issues cleared up, but I can't seem to get wireless working on arch. I'm using a belkin PCMCIA wireless card which is really a ralink rt2860. I get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory" when I try ifconfig wlan0 up.
So yeah, just because I'm interested.
Do you backup?
How often?
Do you use a program that does it for you?
How safe? (Same disk, separate disk, external drive put on a safe location, etc)
Did loss of data change your backup habits?
-yes
-often, different sets of incremental and full backups depending on the day and time
-cron, amanda, rsync, curl - it does it for you when you want how often you want, provided you tell it
-using RAID5 so I just backup my stuff to a NAS cause i've already got what i like to think is good redundancy
-no, my shit is important, too important to trust to a single disk etc
[QUOTE=Baldr;28083040]So yeah, just because I'm interested.
Do you backup?
How often?
Do you use a program that does it for you?
How safe? (Same disk, separate disk, external drive put on a safe location, etc)
Did loss of data change your backup habits?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
Every Sunday at 1:30pm
I just wrote a simple script that cleans out some junk like downloaded packages and runs rsync to do the backup. I would recommend rsync.
I backup to a 1.5tb external drive that sits next to my computer all the time. Not really fire safe, but it saves me from screwing up my system on my own.
I started doing backups because I got that huge ass external and I didn't know what else to do with it. I got more serious about doing backups after downloading one of Hexxeh's Chromium images and accidentally using dd to write to my hard drive instead of my USB drive. I only lost a couple of days of data because I was doing backups and stuff. It's also useful for backing up my system and then formatting my filesystem to something new (I did this to switch to Btrfs and I attempted to set up an LVM), and then just dumping all my data back onto the new filesystem.
[QUOTE=Baldr;28083040]So yeah, just because I'm interested.
Do you backup?
How often?
Do you use a program that does it for you?
How safe? (Same disk, separate disk, external drive put on a safe location, etc)
Did loss of data change your backup habits?[/QUOTE]
I use no proprietary software, so I only use dropbox to save my important files across all my computers. Then if I really need to I'll sometimes make a backup image on a separate partition.
(Also, I do 3d art n such, so I save all that work to my office computer and save my project files every now and again to a separate drive. +All photos n' stuff)
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;28083252]I use no proprietary software[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;28083252]so I only use dropbox to save my important files across all my computers.[/QUOTE]
BZZZZZZZ WRONG
The Dropbox daemon is propietary and closed source.
I think you can find the source for the client itself somewhere though, won't do much good without the daemon though.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28086361]BZZZZZZZ WRONG
The Dropbox daemon is propietary and closed source.
I think you can find the source for the client itself somewhere though, won't do much good without the daemon though.[/QUOTE]
When I mean proprietary I mean as in "no free beer" software, so I mean open source and free software.
(It would sorta be a contradiction in of itself if I said I don't use any "proprietary" software at all in the literal sense, I still have steam and all the games with it and that's all "proprietary")
There is no figurative meaning of the word proprietary that just means "free software".
[QUOTE=Baldr;28083040]So yeah, just because I'm interested.
Do you backup?
How often?
Do you use a program that does it for you?
How safe? (Same disk, separate disk, external drive put on a safe location, etc)
Did loss of data change your backup habits?[/QUOTE]
yes
first of every month
no, but I have a script to clean up the garbage before backing up
on tape
no
Debating whether or not to install Gentoo on my aging laptop.
I tried Arch which fucking hated the idea of wireless internet and at the time, I couldn't figure out (or be bothered) to fix it. Very time consuming. Gentoo is time consuming in a different sense as I don't need to interact with my computer while stuff compiles. I'm also under the impression that a lot of Gentoo's performance comes from the fact that everything is more optimized for your machine since everything is compiled on it.
And I'm getting really, really tired of Mandriva, so if you don't recommend Gentoo to a competent novice, what would you?
Gentoo wasn't worth the time to me.
Just use debian or something.
[QUOTE=n0cturni;28093494]Debating whether or not to install Gentoo on my aging laptop.
I tried Arch which fucking hated the idea of wireless internet and at the time, I couldn't figure out (or be bothered) to fix it. Very time consuming. Gentoo is time consuming in a different sense as I don't need to interact with my computer while stuff compiles. I'm also under the impression that a lot of Gentoo's performance comes from the fact that everything is more optimized for your machine since everything is compiled on it.
And I'm getting really, really tired of Mandriva, so if you don't recommend Gentoo to a competent novice, what would you?[/QUOTE]
gentoo isn't a great OS for a computer that's going to be off more often than on. I would suggest something like Archbang
[QUOTE=n0cturni;28093494]Debating whether or not to install Gentoo on my aging laptop.
I tried Arch which fucking hated the idea of wireless internet and at the time, I couldn't figure out (or be bothered) to fix it. Very time consuming. Gentoo is time consuming in a different sense as I don't need to interact with my computer while stuff compiles. I'm also under the impression that a lot of Gentoo's performance comes from the fact that everything is more optimized for your machine since everything is compiled on it.
And I'm getting really, really tired of Mandriva, so if you don't recommend Gentoo to a competent novice, what would you?[/QUOTE]
Arch+XFCE & Goodies package+NetworkManager = God Distro, comes with everything you need + no hassle involved with utilization of your drivers. Everything works.
God damn I need to start backing up.
I have ONE 1.5TB HDD, some Seagate thing that was the cheapest at Best Buy (before I discovered Newegg, before I built a PC ever). I've had it for I think 2 years.
What should I get? An external just for the purpose? My parents have a supposedly fireproof safe I could store it in
[b]EDIT:[/b]
Oh right this is Linux discussion. Well I saw a guy talking about backups last page
[QUOTE=gaboer;28076671]So, i want to create a Ubuntu LiveCD. Is there a way to have programs on it too? And have like a default desktop background and such?[/QUOTE]
Anyone? oh and have codecs for movies and music on too?
[QUOTE=gaboer;28098257]Anyone? oh and have codecs for movies and music on too?[/QUOTE]
I still haven't figured it out. :smith:
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