Yesterday I made a thread bitching about Arch because I didn't know what I was getting into. Today I'm going to try again on my laptop. I will let you know how it goes.
Installing Args Linugs
Jordan Lopez
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Matthew Russell
have fun OP
Aaron Thomas
Installing it isn't hard, what's hard is getting it to a usable state after having finished installing, like setting up polkit, gtk rules, qt/gtk theme parity, icons, auto-mounting, audio, notifications and what not
it's a pain in the ass
Oliver Phillips
live blog it
Brody Lopez
STEP 1: INSERT CD
STEP 2: BOOT ARGS LINUGS
STEP 3: cont....
Justin Hughes
Could have just used a regular CD.
Connor Anderson
>year of our dawkins 2000+18
>installing your OS from optical media
Camden Williams
STEP 3: set keyboard layout (im leaving default):
ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/**/*.map.gz
type loadkeys de-latin1
STEP 4: Verify if UEFI or not: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
STEP 5: Insert network cable
STEP 6: Verify interweb: ping argslinugs.org
STEP 7: cont..
Alexander Carter
WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO
EXCEPTION:
YOU MUST HAVE NETWORK CABLE IN BEFORE LOADING THE CD. REBOOTING AND STARTING OVER.
STEP 7: cont..
Ethan Flores
STEP 7: Update the system clock
timedatectl set-ntp true
STEP 8: Partition the disks:
I'm gonna make a primary boot and a swap in ext4 format. Using a program called cfdisk.
STEP 9 Cont..
Leo Bailey
James King
>using arch
>not using a wm like i3
ok
Brody Gutierrez
So what you still need to set up gtk for firefox and your file manager
>inb4 uses ranger in the command line like an autist
Ethan Morales
STEP 9: Format primary partition: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
STEP 10: Format and enable swap partition:
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
STEP 11: Mount the file systems:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
STEP 12: Install the base packages:
pacstrap /mnt base
Jackson Rogers
Your use of Jow Forums/g as your personal Arch blog is innovative. I'm impressed. Really.
Cooper Sanchez
vifm is better
Kayden Robinson
>swap partition instead of swap file
Owen Hall
Im getting errors posting updates on here. Are the mods mad?
Adrian Smith
>no
>1 vote
>t. op
Asher Walker
hiroshimoot is just installing another backdoor, no need to worry
Jonathan Williams
it's literally retard tier to fail an arch linux install op, you can do it
Kevin Johnson
OP gave up, didn't he
Cooper Smith
well, did you succeed?
James Cruz
Retard frogposter
Bentley Nguyen
>Lenogs
Jaxon Anderson
I had some driver issues along the way that had to be fixed. Overall I am underwhelmed at the end result. Its not really any better than my previous lubuntu install. I will sit on this for a few days to give it a fair shot.