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Cippa Lippa

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From: Toronto, ON

Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 159

question ahead of installing arch after disastrous bout with Ubuntu

Hello people

I have decided that I want to reinstall arch after having abandoned it (yes, I know...) for ubuntu. That distro is cute but far less stable they claim it to be.
Now I have a problem since I am dualbooting windows 7 and ubuntu installed grub2. How should I handle the arch installation at the time when I am asked on what to do with the grub? I know arch doesn't have grub2...

any clue?

Also, how can I get wireless connectivity WPA from the base system, at least enough to install kdemod and wicd?

Thanks!

Cippa

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: question ahead of installing arch after disastrous bout with Ubuntu

~ > pacman -Si grub2
Repository     : extra
Name           : grub2
Version        : 1.97.1-1
URL            : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Licenses       : GPL3  
Groups         : None
Provides       : grub  
Depends On     : sh  lzo2  freetype2  
Optional Deps  : ruby:usr/share/grub/genmk.rb script
                 libusb: /sbin/grub-emu
Conflicts With : grub  
Replaces       : None
Download Size  : 4215.96 K
Installed Size : 10124.00 K
Packager       : Ronald van Haren <ronald.archlinux.org>

Arch has had grub2 in the repos for a long time.

At 156 posts, I'd think that you'd know to let the community know what wireless adapter that you have so anyone can answer your question.

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: question ahead of installing arch after disastrous bout with Ubuntu

You should just install grub to your MBR. And arch has grub2 in extra.

EDIT: How was I beat by 2 minutes? I just saw no reply ..

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2009-12-26 05:48:06)

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Cippa Lippa

Member

From: Toronto, ON

Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 159

Re: question ahead of installing arch after disastrous bout with Ubuntu

~ > pacman -Si grub2
Repository     : extra
Name           : grub2
Version        : 1.97.1-1
URL            : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Licenses       : GPL3  
Groups         : None
Provides       : grub  
Depends On     : sh  lzo2  freetype2  
Optional Deps  : ruby:usr/share/grub/genmk.rb script
                 libusb: /sbin/grub-emu
Conflicts With : grub  
Replaces       : None
Download Size  : 4215.96 K
Installed Size : 10124.00 K
Packager       : Ronald van Haren <ronald.archlinux.org>

Arch has had grub2 in the repos for a long time.

At 156 posts, I'd think that you'd know to let the community know what wireless adapter that you have so anyone can answer your question.

point taken, I have an intel pro 3945ABG on a dell latitude d830

brianhanna

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Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 157

Re: question ahead of installing arch after disastrous bout with Ubuntu

I have that same wireless card and was able to do a net install using it so it works out of the box.  You'll have to set up the connection manually but that's covered in the wiki.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless

Last edited by brianhanna (2009-12-26 15:59:18)