Guys please help me install Arch on my machine!
The Beginners' Guide has all of the information that you need to install Arch. It has been provided by the community so that these boards, IRC and the ML do not become clogged with people asking the same questions over and over again. Installation is the most thoroughly documented aspect of using Arch Linux; if you encounter any difficulties, ask here with specific questions and include all of the relevant information.
Closing - this has run it's inevitable course...
]]>If you're a complete newbie and a total chicken, read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … rage_drive
Regarding everything else about using the terminal and other stuff, please read the FAQ. Especially: Q) I am a complete GNU/Linux beginner. Should I use Arch?
Oh, Do you know anything about Grub2. I just learned how to set up Legacy 0.97!
Now why (and where) the heck did you learn that? Don't use some shitty Youtube tutorial. The Beginners' Guide has you covered.
http://www.archlinux.org/news/grub-lega … supported/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … bootloader
I know terminal is NOT comfortable for me! But it is not a good reason to use YaST at all! No matter what (I don't know what I have to say in this time)! We say "توفیق اجباری نسیبم شد" Means I had to do it because it was a "must to do"!
I'm not a geek and I don't use my computer for some advanced works or something{@bsilbaugh}! When I migrated from Windows XP to Ubuntu I found every thing different and I do love it! A friendly interface was something that I didn't experience before!
openSUSE is a good option but I don't comfortable with it.
I have Windows Seven on my machine installed on C:\ and three other NTFS partitions but I don't use it anymore.
It is about 78GiB free space I installed Ubuntu on it before and I want to install Arch instead of Ubuntu. (Forgive me @ewaller. I'm not home and can't access my Desktop Computer!)
Every thing must be started on a point and I found my point{@bgc1954}.
As @masteryod said Arch is a start to experience real free world!
@MisterAnderson I tried to use Chakra but it was... .
I think she didn't want to mock me. She just want to let me start from somewhere!
Guys please help me install Arch on my machine!
I hope I could answer all of your questions.
Oh, Do you know anything about Grub2. I just learned how to set up Legacy 0.97!
]]>That said you could try ArchBang with comes with a live CD and installs a preconfigured environment, but the package manager is still terminal only.
]]>In terms of intuitive setup and maintenance, it doesn't get much better than Ubuntu in the Linux world. Arch is "user friendly" in the sense that it is very well organised, well documented, has a great community supporting it, and generally behaves the way it should. However, Arch is not "intuitive": one must develop a specialized knowledge and skill set to administer an Arch system competently and efficiently. Although, once you've pushed yourself past the initial learning curve, I would say that maintaining an Arch system requires no more effort than Ubuntu.
]]>May I suggest that before you do *anything* whatsoever, you back up your data? Even if you were confident you knew exactly what you were doing, you should back up your data before embarking on a new install. Since you are not confident, this is obviously particularly important. You do not want to wipe your data while experimenting and no help anybody gives you here can protect you from the possibility of a mistake. If the data matters, back it up. This is good advice anyway - hard drives fail, software causes errors, stuff happens.
Honstly, to the OP, you should take note of this. I'm an experienced Linux user, and still managed to trash my system leading to two days recovery (with a backup) most of which was done in a terminal, and a lot in a busybox shell. As it happens, I've managed an almost complete recovery, but I'd hate to have to try and talk an inexperienced user through it.
If you don't want to use the terminal, you should really consider a different distro.
]]>Friendly advice: go and try Arch in VirtualBox before you do a real installation.
]]>because of some problems I've decided to use Arch.
I'm very curious to know what kind of problems made you consider Arch, and also if you bothered to read anything about Arch before you tried to install it.
]]>As an aside, I assume that English is not your first language. You said
I know about Gnu/Linux but I am not familiar with Terminal (never want to learn it!).
I am not certain if you meant you have never learned it, and plan to learn it in the future; or if you meant that you have no intention to learn it.
If you meant the formerlatter (you do not intend to learn it), allow me to respectfully suggest that Arch might not be the distribution for you. We tend to use the console a great deal.
Edit: Snaked by bgc1954
Edit 2: latter/ former -- thank you Solvialle
edit: spelling
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