Arch Linux

ftornell

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Registered: 2008-08-18

Posts: 277

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Installation steps right?

1. Install Arch Linux (just did a default installation on my old IBM T40 Laptop)
2. Attach a network cable and tried ping ftp.sunet.se - success after some modifications (followed the n00b guide on the wiki)
3. pacman -Sy to update repositories or whats its called
4. pacman -S xorg (to install xorg)
5. pacman -S xf86-video-ati (to install ATI drivers)
6. pacman -S gnome (to install gnome)
7. pacman -S firefox
8. pacman -S pidgin

Are those steps kind of right or just wrong wrong wrong?

Arch seems damn cool, small and fast so really wanna have it up and running like i mentioned above...

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vyrixv

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From: Houston, TX

Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 15

Re: Installation steps right?

looks good, when you install xorg, install hwd too, then do the hwd -ax (see the xorg wiki) to generate your xorg.conf, that worked really well for me, plus follow the ati wiki after that.

Rumor

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 638

Re: Installation steps right?

Those steps are fine. You can also:

pacman -S gnome firefox pidgin (etc., etc.)

You don't have to install each package as a separate step.

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pete-the-meat

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 26

Re: Installation steps right?

looks good, when you install xorg, install hwd too, then do the hwd -ax (see the xorg wiki) to generate your xorg.conf, that worked really well for me, plus follow the ati wiki after that.

I found that X -configure was more reliable than hwd -ax when I installed xorg - that is it produced an xorg.conf that actually worked where hwd -ax didn't.

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That looks like a much better way of trying to do what I was trying to do than trying to do what I was trying to do...

kendosperling

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From: Dresden

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 49

Re: Installation steps right?

I would do an pacman -Syu instead of pacman -Sy. In This way you upgrade your whole System.