A question of /home

civint · 2007-10-05 19:42:18

I am currently considering upgrading to arch 2007.10 from linuxmint 3.0, due to bloat reasons, and the fact i run on older hardware (not for long! will be upgrading in the new year with my hard earned cash, lol) and I have heard arch is good for running like lightning, lol.

Anyhoo, I have a /home hardrive (2 hard drive setup, 1 for / one for /home) If I chooce to make that partition my home partition in the install, and keep my login name the same, will it still be my home folder, or will I have to make a new one and copy/cut and paste all the docs from one to the new arch linux one?

Also, will I be able to install stuff that will enable me to play wma files that were encrypted under xp?

Hopefully by the end of the weekend, a new arch user........

Civ.

fwojciec · 2007-10-05 19:52:13

Just have the installer create / partition and install the system there, and then point the system to your /home harddrive in the /etc/fstab file. If your user is going to be same you don't need to do anything else.

civint · 2007-10-05 19:54:45

cool, thanks.
Also, what wm does arch use as a default?

fwojciec · 2007-10-05 20:00:40

civint wrote:

cool, thanks.
Also, what wm does arch use as a default?

None, of course. And of course you can install whatever WM/DE you want after you install the base system. That's the beauty of Arch!

BTW - if/when you install make sure to use Arch wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page) and Beginners Guide (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide). Both are indispensable resources.

Lone_Wolf · 2007-10-05 20:07:07

civint wrote:

Also, will I be able to install stuff that will enable me to play wma files that were encrypted under xp?

If they are DRM-ed files, probably not.
the libdvdcss package allows to play protected DVD's however.
In order to be able to play files that use win32/real9/quicktime codecs just install the codecs package.

civint · 2007-10-07 14:41:45

they will be DRM'd, I didn't think they would work really, since they didn't under linux mint. I've only ever got them to play under vector linux..I don't know why it worked there.

So I'm about to install arch-base (fingers crossed), not fomratting my /home hard drive, should it be ok to just go to the /etc/fstab and change the mountpoint of /home to whatever hdb or something it gets labelled as?
just a check, you know.

pelle.k · 2007-10-07 16:50:52

You don't have to mess with /etc/fstab, since you can select mountpoints in the ncurses installer. Just *dont* choose to format that partition (home).
btw. If you have the 2007.08-2 ISO you can relax, but otherwise you need to switch "current" to "core" repo in /etc/pacman.conf after updating pacman.

Permissions will be OK, since UID in ubuntu is the same as in arch for the first user (1000).

dunc · 2007-10-07 21:16:38

Actually, I would recommend not using the same username: slight differences in program versions (particularly DEs, I've found) can cause no end of havoc with saved preferences.

Set Arch up with a different username, so that it creates a new directory in your existing /home partition (you can always change it later, while keeping your new homedir). As pelle.k points out, UIDs are the same as 'buntu, so you'll still be able to access your old one easily enough, and copy/symlink your files and preferences at your leisure.

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