Ixthusdan Posted June 13, 2003 Report Share Posted June 13, 2003 OK, my real problem is that I have 20G of hard drive space that I just have to do something with. So, without doing any research, I'm downloading archlinux (80% complete) and am puting it where I had gentoo. I'm sure I'll have questions later tonight!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 I know that with gentoo, I could do the install without a seperate /boot partition. Since I am still triple booting, I don't want a /boot partition that is active to mess up my system. At the beginning of the setup, archlinux is asking which partitions to use for what. I do not see a clear option for skipping the designation of a /boot partition. (I already have my partitions setup and formatted via mandrake.) Do I need to make a /boot partition to keep the install going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 no i always just use / , swap and /home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 Thanks! I think I'll do the same. In Mandrake, I have /, swap, /home, and /usr. I am using the same swap space for archlinux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 i'm in archlinux right now :-) working on tweaking gnome to my liking.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 Come on then guys - give us some first impressions - why is this better than other distros? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 better is very subjective :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 WTF! I left 2 days and you guys are all using Archlinux now? :blush: MotTs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 heh maybe it will be yoper if you are gone for a few more days :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 better is very subjective :wink: Fair point - why is it any good then? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 I wouldn't say I'm "using" archlinux quite yet! :lol: I can boot it, and I have finally figured out some configurations. But, I can't get my cdrom to mount, which means I can'tload my gui stuff from the cdrom. My /mnt directory is not right. /dev is ok, but the mount points don't exist. Do I just create the directories for the mount points? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 yup mkdir /mnt/cdrom and mount /dev/whateverthecdromis /mnt/cdrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 To you Sarah, what are the best features of ArchLinux? Since your a deveoper, you can give me the skinny can't you? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 My cdrom devices are not showing up in /dev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 My cdrom devices are not showing up in /dev. there is nothing in /dev/cdroms? how is your fstab set up? for example: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdr iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 sarah@ArchLinux:~> ls /mnt cd cdr fl images if you are trying to load them as scsi don't forget to load the modules via rc.conf or rc.local or even /etc/modules.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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