installing Arch....

deano · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:41

Hi,

after a recent update from suse which does not allow me to run my screen at 1680x1050 I thought i'd move to another distro.......and thought about Arch.

Been wanting to use it for some time but never really had the time/need to so tonight is the night

I need to have a working OS by close of play this evening, I need gnome,virtualbox and rdesktop as a minimum and also the ability to work through a proxy.

Is it best to go with the "standard" arch install or use one on of the live CD distros to install a base system and then install what i need on top?

was thinking of either chakra, ctkarchlive or kahelOS

my internet connection is around the 6meg

TIA
Deano

deano · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:55

well its the works laptop and i'll need it by 8am in the morning.

Might go with one o the live CD's in that case to get me to the weekend and then install from scratch if I get on with it.

From reviews it seems a pretty nippy, reliable distro

deano · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:58

it would appear that Arch does not like my laptop HP probook 4320s.

after installation get a non system disk or disk error, have installed grub into MBR and the / partition. changed BIOS from AHCI to IDE mode and will try with a separate /boot

deano · 12 Apr 2011 at 06:44

working now after chaging to IDE