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    MY first experience with arch.

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Bungalo Bill, Jan 18, 2009.

  1. Bungalo Bill

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    I swear to jesus christ, buddha, john stewart and mickey mouse I have to be the dumbest person on the planet without realizing it. How is it that I always somehow lose data?

    My hard drives are as follows

    sda- Vista

    sdb-1 10GB arch
    sdb2-20GB ubuntu root
    sdb3-lots of GB ubuntu /home
    sdb4- Swap

    Tell arch installer, sdb1 is root and sdb4 is swap.....

    Doot doo, anyways I quit the install cause I realised I have no idea how to see what's going on during the ftp stuff and for all I know I could be getting 1kb. I let grub go into windows, as currently it's my default. MY ubuntuinstall is still semi gimped, cause I have yet to finish setting it up from last format. "error something yada yada"

    Boot into ubuntu. MY vista drive is now /var

    $@#$@#$#@$@#

    Now to reimage vista....

    then get back to installing arch. More likely wait til I get my next laptop. Meh. oh well
     
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    pacman's output gets piped to tty5 (I think), so just press "Alt+F5" to see it. :)

    "Alt+F1" takes you back to the first terminal.

    Don't give up! Good things come to those who run after them.
     
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    ....

    I knew alt + f keys I was even playing around with stuff, but never got as far as f5.
     
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    how hard can alt+f5 be? It's just next to f4

    Poor boy.. you should have done core install instead. ftp quite the lot harder
     
    zephyrus17, Jan 18, 2009
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    Did you not read my other post? I did core. The core install didn't have my wifi and I was told I should do ftp, cause I'd have to do a full system upgrade anyways AND the ftp would have my wifi.

    I dunno. I had some text open in alt f2, was pinging the ftp in alt f3 and playing with netstat in alt f4...
     
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