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[Eggdog]

I haven't finished reading this, but I noticed that one thing you did was explain how to make free space on a drive where other installations already live. The beginner's guide assumes that you will devote the whole computer to Arch, and I found the terminology in the setup -- "free space" -- a bit vague and backed out of the install. So that is a useful improvement right there.

[securitybreach]

Eggdog, on Aug 16 2009, 12:34 PM, said:

I haven't finished reading this, but I noticed that one thing you did was explain how to make free space on a drive where other installations already live. The beginner's guide assumes that you will devote the whole computer to Arch, and I found the terminology in the setup -- "free space" -- a bit vague and backed out of the install. So that is a useful improvement right there.

Thanks a lot.Eggdog look here to your Xorg issues: http://wiki.archlinu.../Intel_Graphics Nevermind, I do not think that is your issue.Thanks

Edited by securitybreach, 16 August 2009 - 12:37 PM.

[Bruno]

Great tutorial . . . . . very well done ! I think I will include a link to it in This thread ( yep it's not a pictutorial but it does come close ) Bruno

[securitybreach]

Thanks a lot. It was my first full tutorial anyway. Hope this helps someone.

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I thought about an VirtualBox pictorial but Virtualbox seems to have issues with kernel 2.6.30-4 and it crashes. http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2149

Thanks

Edited by securitybreach, 16 August 2009 - 01:16 PM.

[Bruno]

The link is there now . . . in the first post, have a look. Bruno

[securitybreach]

Cool thanks a lot.     I feel special now.Thanks

Edited by securitybreach, 16 August 2009 - 01:37 PM.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Wow! That was excellent. I have definitely bookmarked this baby. Thanks, SB.

[securitybreach]

No problem. I would probably have never took the time to write up something like this if you would not of asked for it. So thank you as well.THanks

[striker]

Excellent!

[securitybreach]

Archlinux users here is a nice tip:You can get an list of you install package by doing as regular user:

pacman -Qet | awk '{print $1}' > installed_packages.txt

and then you can reinstall everything using the installed_packages.txt file as root:

# pacman -Sy `cat installed_packages.txt`

[SueD]

pacman -Qet | awk '{print $1}' > installed_packages.txt doesn't seem to work for me.

[securitybreach]

Hmm odd   It should work just fine. Awk is installed by default and the rest is just pacman switches. You sure it did not work?Note it does no show any output, it just makes a text file called installed_packages.txt.

[SueD]

Heh, maybe this Dell is another odd machine.

[securitybreach]

Do you get an error or anything?

[SueD]

Nope. After several seconds, it just goes back to the prompt.

[securitybreach]

And there is no file named installed_packages.txt?Are you in the correct directory?

 pwd

It sounds as though it worked. Type ls after the command finishes.

[SueD]

In /home/sue, right? And as user, not root, right? No, there is no file named installed_packages.txt.

[Urmas]

Psst... Josh? Where is the file supposted to be? In /home/suester?

[securitybreach]

@ Sue depends on what directory your console is in. You should not have to be root for this work but heck try it as root?@Urmas  The file is called installed_packages.txt

[SueD]

I just tried whereis and locate...there is no file called installed_packages.txt anywhere. Oh, and that command doesn't work as root either, at least not for me.

[securitybreach]

Ok this will work Sue:

pacman -Qqe > installed_packages.txt

[SueD]

I hate to tell you this but, no it doesn't.LOL

[securitybreach]

Well i have no ideal then since those are built in pacman switches.   Something is s definetly wrong.

[SueD]

No big whoop I suppose. Looks like I have another freaky computer.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

NOTE: Since Josh's original post is a tutorial which is linked to in the Standard Tutorials area of Bruno's Classroom, I've gone ahead and split off the discussion posts and made a new thread out of them. Josh, if there is pertinent information in any of these posts, please add the info as addenda to the original tutorial, also. Thanks! ~Eric