I want Insta-Arch :)

CaptainKirk · 2009-10-26 10:50:31

I have an old PC which I want to use for some testing purposes and a bit of video recording. It has Windows 2000 although the machine is fairly modern--it has a 3G Intel Pentium CPU (one core of course) and 512 M RAM and a big hard disk 60 or 80 G.

I want Arch on it but the last install I did took me 4 hours. It's not a mission-critical machine (AT ALL) so I was looking at FireFly Linux as a quick install to get me up and running with Arch and X and a desktop--I don't care if it's Xfce or LXDE.

Their home page seems to have disappeared, but anyway, what do people think? Is that a good choice? Is there another? I just want a quick and easy install so I can have a Linux box instead of this ancient MS OS.

The other issue is that it seems this machine doesn't have a CD reader. Could be that bus or whatever in the mobo is broken b/c the previous owner said he tried two CD readers and neither worked.

Thanks!

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lucke · 2009-10-26 11:03:24

Chakra?

CaptainKirk · 2009-10-26 11:41:09

Oh, I see I need to review the http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch-based_Distros page again. Maryan also looks interesting. I would prefer a lighter weight WM than KDE because I want to screencast some JS code in action and the JS is pretty CPU-intensive.

MadTux · 2009-10-26 17:47:21

- AntiX (Debian Testing/Sid/Sidux based), WM is IceWM
- VectorLinux (Slackware based), DE is LXDE
- Sidux (Dedian Sid), XFCE version available
- SliTaz, WM is JWM

Frostwarrior · 2009-10-26 19:27:30

Oh come on.
I used gentoo and arch with gnome, compiz full-featured in a Duron 1200Mhz with 1gb RAM DDR1 and Geforce4MX. In gentoo i compiled everything from source (even stage3).
My suggestion: Is weird for a P4 (or PIII) to take so long to install. 3G mean 3Ghz?
If that's the case, get more ram for your pc. If it's old it dont will cost you very much. Then try again arch, if the pc is working well, arch will be blazing fast.

EDIT: Oh sorry, i didnt read the "fast and easy" part lol. For the cd you can use a pen drive. But that pc isn't old at all.

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CaptainKirk · 2009-10-26 19:52:03

The install was on a newer PC and took 4 hours b/c it was my first time installing. If anything could be replaced, it would be the operator.

That's why I want just a simple point and click install distro, but based on Arch--so I can just install and go. I will try one of those mentioned above I guess.

Thanks.

graysky · 2009-10-26 20:02:53

4 h? You'll get better. Once you have the packages, and have done it a few time, an Arch install should take no more than 15 min. I literally did it in 10-15 min a few days ago.

CaptainKirk · 2009-10-26 20:05:16

graysky wrote:

I literally did it in 10-15 min a few days ago.

When are you coming over to my house to do mine too?

I'll make coffee and we have fresh granola bars!

Dieter@be · 2009-10-26 21:11:20

aif -p automatic -c /usr/share/aif/examples/generic-install-on-sda

gives you a complete installation on /dev/sda
the X/wm part is something you have to do yourself (unless someone updates the profile to install the relevant packages)

CaptainKirk · 2009-10-27 15:29:54

Thank you. I am going to try this.

venky80 · 2009-10-27 20:42:36

Dieter@be wrote:

aif -p automatic -c /usr/share/aif/examples/generic-install-on-sda
gives you a complete installation on /dev/sda
the X/wm part is something you have to do yourself (unless someone updates the profile to install the relevant packages)

how is this possible can you give some more info?

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