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#1 2009-11-16 19:33:00
- JoeKer1086
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Very new to Arch - getting ready to install for the first time.
I am going to be doing my first install of arch and just wanted a little more info from anyone that could guide me a little. I want to run KDE and I have been reading alot on arch but i didnt see anything that was a walk through of the initial setup....Im sure its out there somewhere but could someone point me in the right direction
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#2 2009-11-16 19:37:31
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Re: Very new to Arch - getting ready to install for the first time.
I'm sure you noticed our lovely wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … tall_Guide
Good luck.
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#3 2009-11-16 19:38:02
- jasonwryan
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Re: Very new to Arch - getting ready to install for the first time.
You mean like this?
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#4 2009-11-16 22:10:46
- davidlondonuk
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Re: Very new to Arch - getting ready to install for the first time.
I had been using kubuntu for years, but they had some problems when kde went to 4.1, still don't know what 4.3 is like. I am tempted to install kdemod (4 series) from the chakra project-it's an optimized version of kde for arch linux.
My advice is have a good read of a beginners install guide and if you can, do the automatic install. That will use 3 partitions (so you need to back up all your working files, documents to dvd):
/ the root partition where arch or any other linux distro can be installed
/boot a small partition for the kernel and grub files etc
/home the home partition for user data
It's a good partition scheme as it means if you don't get on with arch, you could just install another distro in / and all your data is separate. My / partition is 7.5Gb and it's only 50% used, for /boot 32Mb is easily enough, the rest you can use for /home.
After you install you will not have a desktop system just the console- arch only installs a base system. You need to know what mouse, sound card & video card you have etc as you will need to install xorg from the command line using pacman.
I really like arch, once you get used to it and get over the initial install, it's a really easy and flexible system to use.
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