Arch Linux

heliobates

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Registered: 2007-09-24

Posts: 6

Thank you sir, may I have another?

Brand spanking new Arch user. 5 years of Slackware, 2 years of Ubuntu but itching to have my hands untied.

Arch is everything I loved about Slack but wicked package management. Yipee.

Stuff I had to do to get things working:

* boot ide-legacy during install (default kept seeing my 2 ide drives as scsi drives ?!?)
* use legacy nvidia drivers and tweak xorg.conf
* rebuild my kernel26 using mkinitcpio -p kernel26
* figure out why Alsa wouldn't unmute by default
* install all the software, fonts, codecs, etc. that I need to run my desktop

I found all of the above answers either in the wiki or by searching the Arch forums.

It's so nice to once again be running a distro whose main system administration tool is vi. And DAMN is this distro fast. Ubuntu was starting to feel a little oatmeal-ish. Arch is better than a hardware upgrade.

Thank you to the Arch team and the Arch community for putting the fun back in Linux and making my creaky Athlon box hum again.

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

whose main system administration tool is vi

vi? bah!. real men use nano. 
At least that is chuck norris editor of choice.

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

whose main system administration tool is vi

vi? bah!. real men use nano. 
At least that is chuck norris editor of choice.

Chuck Norris doesn't use editors - he writes his config files in binary straight to the hard drive, without need for a keyboard.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

whose main system administration tool is vi

vi? bah!. real men use nano. 
At least that is chuck norris editor of choice.

Chuck Norris doesn't use editors - he writes his config files in binary straight to the hard drive, without need for a keyboard.

He doesn't need config files, programs just behave themselves.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

Or he hits 'em with a roundhouse kick.

verndog

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Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 55

Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

I love vi !
Actually I was disappointed that Arch didn't come with vim. Then I soon realized I didn't need
vim, vi is more than capable for editing. I'm so use to the command set, its second nature.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

vi _is_ vim, only compiled with less features than usual. The 'normal' vim is in [extra].

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loserMcloser

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From: Canada

Registered: 2004-12-15

Posts: 130

Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

default kept seeing my 2 ide drives as scsi drives ?!?

Isn't this normal? The new SATA/PATA drivers masquerade everything as scsi drives.

heliobates

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Registered: 2007-09-24

Posts: 6

Re: Thank you sir, may I have another?

Isn't this normal? The new SATA/PATA drivers masquerade everything as scsi drives.

Maybe it's normal, but I don't have a SATA motherboard. Just an old-fashioned UDMA-66. The point-and-shooty distros like Ubuntu always called them IDE drives. When I first installed Arch, I could not get GRUB to see the boot image, even if I renamed the drives sd0 and sd1. Legacy-ide fixed the problem.

Had me scratching my head for a while. No worries, I'm Arch-ing away.

Last edited by heliobates (2007-09-26 02:30:14)