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Posted 03-07-2012 at 12:12 PM by Thor_2.0
Updated 03-07-2012 at 12:18 PM by Thor_2.0

Well, nobody said Linux is boring

- well, I did'nt anyway.

This one's for all those Archers out there. So, here's a new install,and you want to update the system before proceeding. Good practice, so you enter

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pacman -Syu

in the console (at first, that's all there is), pacman gets a once-over, so you re-issue the upgrade command...and get (after downloading and all)...

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not enough disk space

...already???????
...

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More disk...

Posted 03-03-2012 at 05:02 PM by Thor_2.0

Hi,

Been a while...I moved house, so, I've had some stuff on my hands/mind/whatever else...
Okay, today, a new Arch install. On a 80Gb drive. With a 250Gb secondary hard drive as slave drive.
Why? Well, simple.
Let's consider a partitionig scheme:

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100 Mb as boot
memory * 2 as swap (why not)
2Gb as user space
and the rest as OS space.

Why? Well, my current install gets cramped. I stuck to de defaults of the installer and...

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Hitting the pause button

Posted 10-23-2011 at 12:38 PM by Thor_2.0

I have to, dont like it, but I have to. At any rate, the project is'nt dead, just zombie for now...got other *** to fry first...

Watch this space for more, if you wanna!

Thor

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...next: buildroot

Posted 10-07-2011 at 12:54 PM by Thor_2.0

Buildroot has been suggested here before. I downloaded it already and was looking for a tutorial. Well, I found one.

Next, why not try buildroot to set up something?

The question some will ask is: why?
The answer: to get (back) to the essence of Linux: Open Source.

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A script is born

Posted 10-07-2011 at 12:00 PM by Thor_2.0

So...as noted in a previous post, all stuff can be automated...by a Bash script.

Wow, never did that before...so my first one is ... totally out of style? I know. Yes, it is, I admit

So far, it preps the disk, sets up networking, downloads and installs ... one package, but it's a proof of concept...

Next, I need to make it a bit more "pretty" and add the packages in there, and in the right order. This means hunting down the depencencies,...

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