Installing Arch; Where to go afterwards


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A good friend of mine let me mess with installing Arch on a notebook just to see if I could configure it. I'm stuck at root when I boot into Arch.

This pic should sum up things minus the sarcasm.

Any suggestions would be helpful :)

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What is your Linux experience? Did you set up some sort of minimal install?

The picture, while amusing, isn't really worth a 1,000 words. :p

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What is your Linux experience? Did you set up some sort of minimal install?

The picture, while amusing, isn't really worth a 1,000 words. :p

I'm a complete noob :p

I used ubuntu and messed around with a few sudo commands to get my flash, wine and such working on my friends test machine.

technically I've been following Ubuntu on and off since Hoary Hedgehog. It's just that I haven't grown as much as I should imo

While I'm comfortable in Windows, I feel like it's an obligation for me to learn *NIX; maybe it's because I feel "secure" using it or I may actually need to have experience from it idk but it's an interesting OS (aside from all the variations of it) and I am in all seriousness wanting to learn it.

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Arch has no minimal install, the fact that you would be dropped into a shell is to be expected. I recommend you take a trip over to the wiki and check out the official install guide as well as the beginners guide. These should get you well on your way.

edit: damn i had already forgotten one post in this thread, oh well the fact that two people suggest the same thing should tell you something.

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Make that 3 people. Read the installation guide. Read the beginners guide. Read the wiki. You should have lots of fun :) If you follow those 3 things (especially the beginners guide, it is very high quality and will help you set up most basic things) you should have no troubles. If you do get lost or have a problem, come back and I'm sure one of us many Archers on Neowin can help you out.

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guess I'll take my chances reading those guides.

At least I can learn something from the them in some way or fashion in a future dilemma.

thanks

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guess I'll take my chances reading those guides.

At least I can learn something from the them in some way or fashion in a future dilemma.

thanks

Apart from the links the other users gave you take a look here also:

Arch Linux Installation Guide

You can also try kdemod, a modification for KDE. It has both KDE3 and KDE4 packages. Read more here:

http://kdemod.ath.cx/

http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/

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haha that picture is great :laugh:

That's just the way arch is though, definitely not a beginner distro lol, but good to see you're jumping right in :)

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Well I've been using MysticGr's installation guide to some success, I got stuck on repositories using "pacman -Sy"

it tries to sync via community servers as well as other locations but it seems to fail.

fyi I'm using virtual box on a centrino duo notebook which is using the intel 3945 wireless driver. I installed guest additions as well on xp but everytime I click on "guest additions through my virtualization menu nothing happens.

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All the best recommendations have been said lol, I just hope you won't give up on the first pages :p

Arch, Gentoo (specially), Debian, these installations is where you learn how linux works under the hood. Have a nice learning.

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Well I've been using MysticGr's installation guide to some success, I got stuck on repositories using "pacman -Sy"

it tries to sync via community servers as well as other locations but it seems to fail.

fyi I'm using virtual box on a centrino duo notebook which is using the intel 3945 wireless driver. I installed guest additions as well on xp but everytime I click on "guest additions through my virtualization menu nothing happens.

Shot in the dark here, but did you mount the cd drive? (for the guest additions issue)

For the pacman issue, can ping www.google.com or similar? Sounds like your network settings in vbox may be either messed up or not set up properly on the arch side. I've never used vbox so I'll be of no help there.

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I've tried ping and had no luck, but the guest additions I downloaded was an exe unless that's not what's it's suppose to be. If possible can you link me to the proper guest additions?

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The guest additions are an additional package in the repositories. Issue

pacman -Ss virtualbox

to list all virtualbox packages. You must have the community repository enabled in your /etc/pacman.conf.

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