Arch installation

ultrapup · 03-28-2009, 05:57 PM

I've installed Arch and have the wifi up and working. I went through the beginners guide and installed xorg then ran the two test to check out xorg and xterm both seem to work. That's as far as I've taken the install, I haven't decided on which desk top to install. I appreciate the Arch Way. I do have a question: When Arch downloaded nano came down without color. I would like nano with color, what to do!

syg00 · 03-28-2009, 06:33 PM

This is covered in the Arch forums - some local examples are offered, for pacman for example.
The manpages are always worth a look - nano and nanorc.
Have a look at /etc/nanorc.

Better get used to looking for doco if you plan on using Arch.

sagecss · 03-31-2009, 05:11 AM

Yep, the Wiki's are full of info to get a new user up and running just fine. I can strongly recommend Xfce as a desktop, however try them all anyway.

decodedthought · 04-14-2009, 05:59 AM

hey i am in the setting up grub part and i see that arch and windows are listed in the grub/menu.lst but i have fedora 10 installed tooo ... what do i do now ???
will fedora load separately or do i have to add fedora to the menu.lst
if so how ???

syg00 · 04-14-2009, 06:16 AM

You will need to update menu.lst - you can either add the entries from your F10 menu.lst (you'll have to maintain these by hand). Or you can chainload to the F10 system - requires you to (re)install grub to the root partition in F10.
I haven't done a recent (complete) install of Arch, so you may be subject the issues I mentioned here a couple of days ago. The latest Arch iso appears to support ext4, so may also have a patched grub to handle new ext3 partitions with the larger inode size.

decodedthought · 04-14-2009, 06:18 AM

but the thing is rite now i have my comp. stranded at the menu.lst screen .. how do i add fedora 10 's initrd ,kernel and stuff like that .. wat do i do ???
and i installed as ext3 only ..i had the option of ext4 but didnt opt for it !!

decodedthought · 04-14-2009, 09:38 AM

[s]when ever i do pacman -S alsa-utils
i get
Rerieving packages from exra....
warning: failed to rerieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction(unexpected error)
Errors occured , no packages upgraded

wat do i do ???[/s]

got it all fixed ...
sorry

jspaces · 04-16-2009, 06:53 PM

Quote:

bashphoenux > but the thing is rite now i have my comp. stranded at the menu.lst screen .. how do i add fedora 10 's initrd ,kernel and stuff like that .. wat do i do ???
and i installed as ext3 only ..i had the option of ext4 but didnt opt for it !!

I mounted the other linux's boot partition then opened the /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst and copied/paste the correct lines into the Arch's /boot/grub/menu.lst, editing the comments to the next number sequence and save. Now the Arch's grub menu has all my linux versions available.
If you want the original grub menu to appear you could add an entry like this:

Code:

title Fedora 10 Grub
root (hdX,X)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

Be sure to change (hdX,X) to the correct partition where the original grub is located. My was (hd0,5) which is hard drive 1 and partiton 6. Grub starts with 0 then goes up. Hope this helps. Happy Arching.

decodedthought · 04-17-2009, 09:40 AM

never mind mate .. i installed and uninstalled arch .. dues to storage constraints .. i had a tripple boot when i istalled arch(arch,fedora and xp) but since i had some space problems had to uninstall arch.. also had to uinstall xp and now back to fedora 10
will give arch another go when i decide leaving fedora :P