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crackerjack

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Registered: 2009-01-24

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Beginners Guide

Hi all!

First off, I'd like to congratulate the Arch team on doing a superb job in creating this distribution.

I've installed Archlinux for the first time following the Beginners Guide and thought it might be helpful to point out a few mistakes (to me its a mistake - if not - then I'm sorry)

In section 2.4 - documentation it says

Change to vc/2 with <ALT>+F1 and invoke /usr/bin/less

I believe it should have read

Change to vc/2 with <ALT>+F1 and invoke /bin/less

basically - take out "/usr" part.

In section 2.10.4 - /etc/fstab where it gives you the code to list partitions by uuid
As per the documentation - it gives

ls -lF /dev/disk/by-uuid/

to me - it should have said

ls -lF /dev/disk/by-id

That's it!  Other than the above - excellent documentation and I look forward to learning more and hopefully be able to contribute to Arch by helping others.

Crackerjack

notatoad

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From: alberta, canada

Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 5

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Re: Beginners Guide

i'm currently trying to install following the beginners guide, and having a few problems.  my biggest issue with the guide is that it assumes everything goes right.  there are no suggestions as to what to do if the steps in the beginners guide don't work.

Duologic

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 249

Re: Beginners Guide

crackerjack: I think it was with ALT + F2, and if you think there is a mistake in the guide, then edit it on the wiki. :-)

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: Beginners Guide

Edit the 1st one but not the 2nd because It's not a mistake .

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Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 6,965

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Re: Beginners Guide

crackerjack: I think it was with ALT + F2, and if you think there is a mistake in the guide, then edit it on the wiki. :-)

I don't think beginners should be encouraged to change the Beginners Guide before the "mistake" has been confirmed by other users. I think crackerjack's idea to double-check first on the forum is a very sensible idea.

Let us not forget this incident either.

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Beginners Guide

the best thing would be to ask on the talk page, that's what it's there for

edit: not that posting this here was *WRONG*, just making a point.

Last edited by test1000 (2009-01-24 22:06:32)

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weasel8

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Registered: 2008-12-15

Posts: 149

Re: Beginners Guide

As per the documentation - it gives

ls -lF /dev/disk/by-uuid/

to me - it should have said

ls -lF /dev/disk/by-id

Um, no - by-uuid is correct.