Arch w/ DE ?

JK3mp · 2009-04-27 02:28:36

This is more a question for a freind of mine. But is there a way to download Arch WITH a DE(Desktop Environment) in the ISO. I know its supposed to come minimalistic, and i just dl'd Gnome and Fluxbox myself after install. But a friend of mine wishes to try it out but has a 5GIG cap broadband card and he's getting the ISO off his school computers, so fair to say once he installs it he doesn't wanna have to wait 5 hours on a wireless network, or cap out his max on his broadband card.

Tenken · 2009-04-27 02:32:13

You might suggest trying Chakra which is Arch + KDEMod.

JK3mp · 2009-04-27 02:34:39

Tenken wrote:

You might suggest trying Chakra which is Arch + KDEMod.

Kool kool. Can he remove the KDE i guess whenever he wants? Cause he plans on using Fluxbox at some point but would be happy with any DE he can get right now, he's a lil newer but im helping him learn (Though im learning too, really new myself) . I told him fluxbox might not take too much since its fairly small and lightwieght but will still provide a GUI he can figure through.

Tenken · 2009-04-27 03:02:39

I haven't actually used Chakra other than as a live CD, according this page you can unistall KDE mod pretty easily.

mcmillan · 2009-04-27 04:11:13

Can he remove the KDE i guess whenever he wants?

Once it's installed Chakra just gives you an Arch system with a preconfigured KDE setup. Like Tenken pointed you to, it's pretty simple to drop the kde part later if you want. The kdemod-uninstall is a group that contains everything from the kdemod repositories, so removing it will remove everything kdemod.

In case it's relevant I should warn you that the 64bit is still the original alpha that was released a while back, so there's a few bugs that have been fixed since in the 2nd alpha that's been released just for 32bit. (though I installed off the 64bit one without any serious problems).

JK3mp · 2009-04-27 05:08:56

Aight, thanks mcmillon for the heads up. And thanks for the tip. Downloading it now and he's gonna try it out tommorow. I'll let ya know if everything goes smooth.

thisperishedmin · 2009-04-27 11:54:55

couldn't he go mooch a wireless cafe, school connection, library, etc?

aside from that, chakra was all that i had in mind to recommend. good luck!

Mr.Elendig · 2009-04-27 13:26:07

JK3mp wrote:

This is more a question for a freind of mine. But is there a way to download Arch WITH a DE(Desktop Environment) in the ISO. I know its supposed to come minimalistic, and i just dl'd Gnome and Fluxbox myself after install. But a friend of mine wishes to try it out but has a 5GIG cap broadband card and he's getting the ISO off his school computers, so fair to say once he installs it he doesn't wanna have to wait 5 hours on a wireless network, or cap out his max on his broadband card.

He could use pacman -Sp to get all the url to the packages he needs, and then grab those over his school network.

thisperishedmin · 2009-04-27 13:59:08

Well...useful as that would be in helping him get the packages FASTER - he'd still be eating a significant portion of the monthly cap for usage!

I'd still say mooching a wired internet connection where possible would be the best work around

Mr.Elendig · 2009-04-27 14:25:42

thisperishedmin wrote:

Well...useful as that would be in helping him get the packages FASTER - he'd still be eating a significant portion of the monthly cap for usage!
I'd still say mooching a wired internet connection where possible would be the best work around

No it wouldn't, since he would be downloading them at school instead of trough his capped line >_>

thisperishedmin · 2009-04-27 18:24:05

As you can see, I excel in reading closely

JK3mp · 2009-04-27 18:37:04

lol @thisperishedmin and thanks Mr.Elendig... i'll have him try that. Right now were just tryin to work out installing it at all,,...keeep getting Grub 22 error. If you can help with that any look at my thread on it. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=543819

mike_93 · 2009-04-27 18:51:49

i think the idea was that his friend somehow has a broadband cap at school, something I would be quite frankly scared of, how else would I download all the ISOs for my distrohopping in 5-8 minutes

Nezmer · 2009-04-27 22:05:31

If he is downloading stuff from school , then he is probably saving this stuff in a flash USB disk .

Why don't you get his flash disk , copy your pacman cache to it and then return it to him ?

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