Arch Linux

lorestar

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From: Florence, Italy

Registered: 2006-09-24

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Some n00b questions

Hi all,
I'd like to try archlinux, and I'm waiting for the next release (0.8 - Voodoo), does anyone know when it's going to be ready?
I'm very curious about pacman, and since I'm using Debian and I have a 56k dialup connection, I would appreciate some kind of stop/resume feature while downloading packages, like apt-get does have (it keeps in mind the parts of the packages that was downloading when interrupted by ctrl-c, for example...). Pacman does something like this?

Thanks

noriko

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Registered: 2006-06-09

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Re: Some n00b questions

arch is a rolling release (i think that's the correct term) distro, the version number only represents that of the installer cd.

the 8.0 disc is in beta now...
http://archlinux.org/news/296/ for the latest b2.

it's quite stable stable afaik.

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Stalwart

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Re: Some n00b questions

Pacman can continue interrupted downloads

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lorestar

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Re: Some n00b questions

"Versionless"... like gentoo... am I right?

dolby

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Re: Some n00b questions

yes gentoo is like arch

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japetto

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Re: Some n00b questions

Yes, yes.  Install & enjoy

kensai

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Re: Some n00b questions

yes gentoo is like arch

Arch is like Gentoo. Gentoo's history goes way back, before Arch released 0.1 Homer.

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codemac

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Re: Some n00b questions

hahahahahah.

Kensai

Arch is older than gentoo.  Look it up on distrowatch if you want.

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kensai

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Re: Some n00b questions

hahahahahah.

Kensai

Arch is older than gentoo.  Look it up on distrowatch if you want.

Already did. Beta versions of Gentoo it list 1.0 rc6 on 2002-01-18 and in 2001 Gentoo had versions already out which a lot of people were testing.;)

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phrakture

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Re: Some n00b questions

According to distrowatch, the first version of Arch was 20 days before the first version of Gentoo.... /me shrugs

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dtjohnst

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Re: Some n00b questions

Seems like a chicken vs egg debate......

lorestar

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From: Florence, Italy

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Re: Some n00b questions

Seems like a chicken vs egg debate......

Yeah, so let's get back on topic: how can I remove that useless and annoying "enter root passwd for administration or ctrl+d to continue" when the system is starting up?

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: Some n00b questions

Hym, that should only show up if you're booting into runlevel 1. Change the "id:5:initdefault:" line in /etc/innittab, putting a desired runlevel number there (preferably 5, if you're gonna use X).

If default runlevel isn't set to 1 in inittab, you might have "init 1" or "1" appended to the kernel line in grub/lilo config file.

lorestar

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From: Florence, Italy

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Re: Some n00b questions

I have "id:3:initdefault" in inittab by default... and "single" at the end of the kernel line in menu.lst :-) now i'll try to remove it!