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yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

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Newbie: went thru full install of full ISO all packages. Need X

Hi All.... Well.... I COULD figure this out... and I have been thru the wiki a fair bit...

I am DEFINITELY staying with ARCH.... very relieved I've found Arch actually having played with countless distro.. I actually DO know how fabulous the Arch Way is...

I'm real good at staying with on the learning curve though would love a little help here as today's nutty busy.

I did the full ISO install of all files... all 4 categories... that's all good.
Now I did NOT alter any config files I just installed GRUB figuring it would get me logged in with my new root password...

OK, I'm logged in as Root.... now what? I'd like some kind of GUI....
and even though my network is always found with Ubuntu...duh... I don't appear to be getting pacman to update etc...

DO I HAVE to alter config files???

I can bring up nano etc....

Sorry for the dumb post... I'm running around here like crazy yet still so arch'ed up!  hehehehe

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Stythys

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 878

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Re: Newbie: went thru full install of full ISO all packages. Need X

what DE/WM do you want? For example, if you want gnome, run:

pacman -S xorg gnome gnome-extra hwd gdm

also grab any video drivers you need for your graphics card.

then run 'hwd -xa' to generate your xorg.conf, add 'gdm' to your startup daemons in rc.conf, reboot, and all should be well.

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jryarch

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Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 45

Re: Newbie: went thru full install of full ISO all packages. Need X

More wiki ! You've been "thru THE wiki a fair bit...", which wiki?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … cessary.29 <-- Beginners guide

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_network  <-- search wiki.archlinux.org for network

Have fun

yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: Newbie: went thru full install of full ISO all packages. Need X

WOW...that is SO nice... yeah, when I'm not so crazy busy... like this evening I do what I'd like to do now and get SERIOUS! Serious fun!

um, basically I don't cre what happens on this first install though I have a lot of old command line experience I'm not all I wanna be at all yet with nix....

get back to you soon.... SO happy to be here... arch really does it for me after all my basic experience...
it's like I KNOW that this time/distro I'm gonna get there and be a decent linux user.

Sjoden

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From: WA

Registered: 2007-08-16

Posts: 380

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Re: Newbie: went thru full install of full ISO all packages. Need X

nano /etc/rc.conf

Comment out the line starting with 'eth0="'
Add the line

eth0="dhcp"

Reboot and you should have a working network connection.

Then you can

pacman -Ss pkgname

to find what official packages are available.

Openbox, PekWM, Fluxbox, KDE, GNOME, XFCE plus many others are already available for window managers and desktop environments.

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yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: Newbie: went thru full install of full ISO all packages. Need X

NICE...! and yes, got the dhcp tip..

installing basic gnome now.... And REALLY REALLY happy to be here...

buntu just felt too easy and heavy.... though I'd be with it as it really is good though I like the arch lightness and well, you get it!!!!!