New installation

ewl · 2006-10-31 03:00:16

I just installed arch for the first time. There were a few gliches in the installation, but I managed to work around them. First, my laptop, which is a Dell Inspiron 1100 has the cdrom at /dev/hda and the hard drive at /dev/hdc. But grub always seems to see the hard drive at hd0. So when I was installing grub, the menu.lst had the drive at hd2. That's reasonable, but wrong, so I changed it. But then grub tried to install on the mbr of hd2, and I got an error message. So I switched virtual consoles and installed it myself.

When I rebooted, I got the the grub splash screen and chose Arch. I got an error message that initrd.img could not be found. So I booted up from the install cd and found that there was no initrd.img in the /boot directory. So I started a process of elimination choosing each .img file in /boot and putting it as the intrd file in grub. The last selection was the one that worked, kernel26-fallback.img.

I installed xorg with pacman and set up the xorg.conf file. My video card is an intel which uses the i810 driver. When I ran startx I got the error message that i810 and glx were not present. I installed the xf86-video-i810 package and was able to start x (after I deleted the vesa crap from xorg.conf), but glx is still not installed.
How do I get glx?

But I have it installed and I have wmaker running. Besides the problems with installation, I'm really impressed with the performance of arch. Booting up is as fast as any distro I've tried and everything runs fast. I like i! :-)

byte · 2006-10-31 03:07:21

> How do I get glx?

pacman -S libgl-dri

tomk · 2006-10-31 07:28:24

For the hda/hd0 thing, read "DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS" in /boot/grub/menu.lst, or any grub info anywhere on the net.

ewl · 2006-10-31 12:19:09

I understand about the device name conversions. My point was that since my hard drive is hdc instead of hda, grub should really see it as hd2 instead of hd0. But it doesn't. It always sees it as hd0. The arch installer insisted on installing it to the mbr of hd2, though. But that doesn't exist.

tomk · 2006-10-31 12:46:57

Apologies, ewl - I misread your post.

A bit distracted today..........

ewl · 2006-10-31 13:13:28

No problem, I'm permanently distracted myself

as an addendum to above, I've switch from wmaker to fluxbox. Everything is cool :-)

Arch Linux

#1 2006-10-31 03:00:16

New installation

#2 2006-10-31 03:07:21

Re: New installation

#3 2006-10-31 07:28:24

Re: New installation

#4 2006-10-31 12:19:09

Re: New installation

#5 2006-10-31 12:46:57

Re: New installation

#6 2006-10-31 13:13:28

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