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faemir

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-11-09

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Just installed Arch - what now?

I just finished successfully installing archlinux - What now?

I had a quick peek at the wiki but it wasn't very helpful.

Playing around I couldn't get a single package to install - no x.org or kde. pacman kept coughing up a load of errors - for instance when I tried to do pacman -Syu it told me that it couldn't sync with the belnet mirrors for core, extra and community packages. 'failed to synchronize ... transient resolver error '

This can't be a repo problem because I installed it using internet files.

The fact that I can't even start to use it is frustrating - even grub didn't seem to pick up my windows partition even though the grub list looked fine and I installed it to the right harddrive afaik.

Any help? (especially for getting x.org and kde running! (or any packages installable for that matter!))

Last edited by faermi (2007-11-09 23:48:31)

Dusty

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Re: Just installed Arch - what now?

is your network setup correctly? type ping google.com and see if you get packets coming back.

If it does, try a different mirror. Although pacman should have done this automatically.

It would help if you could tell us more specifically what errors you're getting.

I can rename your username if you e-mail me with your preferred spelling.

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Doehni

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Registered: 2007-05-19

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Re: Just installed Arch - what now?

First: Welcome to Arch!!

The best point to start is the Beginners Guide in the Wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

By the way: a lot of questions can be answered by searching the wiki.

Regarding your grub problem: Add this to your /boot/grub/menu.lst file:

# Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

The string (hd0,0) points to my windows partition, which is the first partition on the first hard drive (counting starts with 0)

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: Just installed Arch - what now?

Now What?

You make it perfect, that's what!!

Welcome to Arch.

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faemir

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-11-09

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Re: Just installed Arch - what now?

First: Welcome to Arch!!

The best point to start is the Beginners Guide in the Wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

By the way: a lot of questions can be answered by searching the wiki.

Regarding your grub problem: Add this to your /boot/grub/menu.lst file:

# Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

The string (hd0,0) points to my windows partition, which is the first partition on the first hard drive (counting starts with 0)

You see i'm sure those lines were in the grub boot list, but I will double check.

EDIT: Ah. They were commented out. Fixed this problem

I tried changing the mirrors for pacman to use, but it still made errors:

Warning current locale is invalid; Using default "C" locale

:: synchronising package databases...
error : failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk : transcient resolver failure

It says this for all of them, and did for the belnet mirror as well.

When I try to ping google it says unknown host - does that mean that my network isn't set up properly?

Last edited by faermi (2007-11-10 11:10:09)

colinzhengj

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From: Cambridge, MA

Registered: 2007-03-20

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Re: Just installed Arch - what now?

...Just read the wiki pages on how to set up the network

Allan

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Re: Just installed Arch - what now?

The invalid locale problem can be fixed by uncommenting a line in /etc/locale.gen and running locale-gen.

For the network problems, post the network section of /etc/rc.conf and all of /etc/hosts - we need some more info to point you in the right direction.

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faemir

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-11-09

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Re: Just installed Arch - what now?

It's wierd - my network is fine now, and all I did was restart. But atleast it's working

Pacman is also working okay