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#1 2006-07-22 21:15:13

E.Hawke
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Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

Right now I am finally using the Archie LiveCD, and I wonder which desktop managers there are available for the full installed version of Arch Linux? And I also wonder how I can create a new partition on my current hard drive without losing or deleting my files and my current OS - Windows XP Prof, some have said I should try a partitioning manager, but they cost money, and the trial version is not giving you the chance to make a new partition.

And the desktop - this Archie CD is giving me XFCE - which is not what I want in the final full version of Arch Linux. I am fairly used to KDE, and I would say it has to be available for Arch if I am going to use it.


Again, I am sorry for this thread, if it has already, by any chance been covered. Thank you!

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#2 2006-07-22 21:41:24

scarecrow
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

The gparted liveCD lets you resize NTFS partitions, and costs nothing.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Arch has every desktop environment you could wish- you just have to pick one. And you'd better install from a regular Arch installation CD (full, or base, or netinstall) and not Archie, which is mainly designed to be a liveCD.


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#3 2006-07-22 21:51:36

Linteg
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

As for resizing the disk (which i presume is ntfs) i believe ntfsresize is a good option, i don't know if it's included in archie, but it's supposedly included in the gparted livecd.

With Arch you can choose from almost all desktop environments (kde/gnome/xfce) and window managers (*box,ratpoison,wmii...) available, most of them as binary packages and some more uncommon ones/cvs versions etc as pkgbuilds in aur.

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#4 2006-07-22 23:50:37

E.Hawke
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

Very well, thank you. Now, have I got it right if I presume that I have to boot from the live cd, gparted livecd, in order to partition my hard drive?

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#5 2006-07-23 07:38:41

Linteg
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

Yes, you have to if you want to resize your ntfs partition, the arch installer can do partitioning, but it cannot resize ntfs partitions smile

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#6 2006-07-23 14:38:07

E.Hawke
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

Well, I got a lot of 'fatal errors' as I tried to install Arch Linux 0.7.2. Maybe I should try and burn the cd again? I don't think there could be anything wrong with the hard disk I tried to install it on (not the one I have my current OS on), because it worked fine when I tried to boot from it.

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#7 2006-07-23 15:49:52

briancurtin
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

check the md5sum of the iso you downloaded. if it is correct, then burn the disc at a slower speed.

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#8 2006-07-23 18:05:41

E.Hawke
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

I certainly will, but how do I know it's 'correct', and do I know if it isn't? Any thing in special I should look for?

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#9 2006-07-23 20:18:34

elasticdog
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Re: Available desktop managers, partitioning question?

E.Hawke wrote:

I certainly will, but how do I know it's 'correct', and do I know if it isn't? Any thing in special I should look for?

The correct md5 sum should be available from the site you download the ISO from...it will either be listed in the same directory if you're downloading via ftp, or it will be on the webpage (at least it should be).  If you run md5sum check on the ISO after you've downloaded it, and the two numbers match, you know the file hasn't been corrupted.

--==EDIT==--
For instance, you can find the md5 sums on this page: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archlinux/

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