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Ante

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Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 7

gotta install it to love it

Anyway, googled a lot, Arch64 seems like just the distro I was always looking for. I'm a very experienced windows user and ultra newbie when it comes to *nix, mainly because I was hopping distros last 3-4 years, not having any of them longer then a week.

Arch64 it is. And I need help. (so much for the intro)

So, I'll post here questions throughout the installation, hoping you guys will help me get this thing runnin' as soon as possible.
First, anyone knows will and how will Ralink 2500 wireless network card work on Arch64? Cause, if it won't, I might as well stay on XP (and I'd really hate to do that).
Second, is there a tool to convert NTFS partition to ext3 or some other linuxish FS? Mind, I don't wanna loose my super uber kewl 350 gig sized rock (hell yeah!) collection.

Thanks, I really appreciate any help.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: gotta install it to love it

Check the forum  "ARCH64 and other architectures" for help with Arch64....

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pecan

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 93

Re: gotta install it to love it

Have you considered just adding ntfs read/write support by using the 3g-ntfs drivers? I did that, they seem to be an improvement over older solutions.

Legendin

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Registered: 2007-04-19

Posts: 10

Re: gotta install it to love it

Second, is there a tool to convert NTFS partition to ext3 or some other linuxish FS? Mind, I don't wanna loose my super uber kewl 350 gig sized rock (hell yeah!) collection.

Partition Magic will amongst other things convert a filesystem to another (supports NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3 etc.).

*cough*torrent*cough*

Good luck with Arch64!

-Leg

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: gotta install it to love it

Welcome to Arch. I love your enthusiasm, but I also hope that you're aware that Arch is designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users, and last time I looked, that particular group did not include "ultra newbies".

Having said that, feel free to forge ahead, if you still want to.

Re your questions, we have both the rt2500 and rt2x00 packages in the extra and unstable repos, respectively. Re ntfs, in general, it is not possible to convert one file system to another. What you need to do is back up your data, create your preferred new file system, and restore your data. I can imagine that you might have difficulty finding somewhere to back up 350G (hell yeah!), so pecan's suggestion might be the way to go. I'll just add that if you only want read access to your uber cool stuff, that is provided by the kernel. ntfs-3g is for read/write access.

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: gotta install it to love it

If you can read (I'm sure you can) and have enough patience to work through problems, you'll do fine IF you have problems.  I considered myself a newbie (though I've been playing with distros for years) and I love it here.

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