Commands not to run on Linux?

PermaBanned

PermaBanned

PermaBanned

Soldato
Joined
7 Jul 2009
Posts
16,234
Location
Newcastle/Aberdeen
Well i've got the few upgrades i was waiting for, but i can't seem to find the motivation to ditch my Mint 11 install for Arch (again). What commands should i run to completely **** up Mint so i have to switch to Arch? ;)

Also, could somebody help me with creating Arch partitions in gParted? I skimmed through the wiki but it's not much clearer - what do i need and what is stored where? It talks about /boot, /var, /home and /usr but i thought you could only have four primary partitions, and that leaves nothing for some swap. And i'm thinking about trying a few different filesystems (other than EXT), maybe ReiserFS for /var and JFS/XFS for... i don't know really. Where would native programs and Wine programs (and AUR programs) be stored ?

Cheers :)
 
Last edited:
A little ;)

I'm kinda waiting on an answer to the second part of the OP though, not much point in destroying this installation before i know how to partition how i want it. All the other times i've installed Arch i've just let the installer do whatever it wanted :p
 
@JHeaton: Hmm, okay - that makes it clearer. So what's actually stored in / and what's stored in /home? Because i think the vast majority of the space i take up will be programs; native, AUR and Wine. Are they all stored in the same place? I seem to remember AUR stuff being done in ~/...
 
Hmm, okay - so packages and AUR stuff will go in /, and from what i can tell Wine programs go into a hidden folder in /home? I can make that work... so if i just 'copy' you and do something like (160ishGB HDD):

Code: 
[B]Mt. Pt.        FS        Size[/B]
/boot        Ext2        64MB
swap         swap        2.2GB
/            Ext4        60GB
/home        Ext4        Remaining free space

I should probably be fine. Okay, wish me luck :D
 
Well, i get into gParted and realise that i still don't know the answer to a problem i've had since i first used it. Align to cylinder or MiB? What does that even mean? I read somewhere that cylinder is a better bet, but whenever i select it then go back and check it it shows as MiB. Advice?
 
Well cfdisk looked a lot less confusing than i remember, but when i couldn't find the hex code for EXT2 or 4 i remembered that that's almost exactly what the auto setup does anyway, so i just went through that and changed the sizes. Anyway, i have a usable Gnome 3 desktop up and running now, with flash and sound. Not bad for one night's work, i think we'll have a good week's worth of tweaking now though ;)

Thanks for your help :)
 
JHeaton said:
*I need to get out more. :(
Click to expand...

Pft, then who will give me advice ;)

But yeah, it's going well. Haven't got my head round customizing syslinux, or installing Slim, Conky, Splashy but there's plenty of time for that :)

Something that springs to mind though that i don't think i've ever seen mentioned - i just installing AUR packages using tar, makepkg and pacman instead of yaourt. Do they automatically update?
 
Hairybudda said:
Yeah that's a no, yaourt is pretty handy but you'd be better off handling bs manually for the time being, at least until you feel how everything connects
Click to expand...

Oh, i'm fine with how the AUR works - this is my third Arch install. This one hopefully has far fewer newbie mistakes though :p

I think yaourt can automatically update AUR packages though, from the manual:

Code: 
SYNC OPTIONS
       -a, --aur
           Also search in AUR database. With -u or --sysupgrade, upgrade aur
           packages that are out of date. With -Qm, display more info about
           foreign package.
 
I went for the good ol' "rm -rf /", but as su and telling it that it was alright to do it. Partially worked, but there were still a few directories that it didn't have permission for.

I don't actually know if it would boot up, seems just the motivation from this thread was enough for me to install Arch anyway :D
 
Hmm, running back for help again :D

I got Limbo from Steam running in Wine perfectly, then i paused it and tried to watch a youtube video - no sound. Game sound works fine, no sound in anything else. If i close the game and refresh the page then the sound is back again. If i then open Limbo again there's no sound in that. Any way i can have sound in... you know, more than one application? I thought i was using ALSA but a package query shows that Gnome 3 might install Pulseaudio of it's own accord... i also ran something in terminal at some point (yeah, specific, but i'm tired so deal with it :p) and got an error code along the lines of 'don't know what to do with [x] number of channels, pretending there's only 2 channels'. There were about five similar to this and X ranged from 32 to about 10,000.

And why do web fonts change when you install the AUR packages you need for Wine? What priority is it in? Not that they're bad, i just set them to anti-alias as much as possible. But it takes a bit of getting used to, i'd like to understand why it happens.

Any ideas? Thanks :)

EDIT: Erm... sort of fixed itself. Maybe something i did last night required a reboot? Thanks anyways :p
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom