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Really enjoying ArchBang on a USB stick. Nice work! smile
I am probably not going to install it anytime soon (since I have a perfectly working Arch install already, why mess with it?) but you've inspired me to possibly install openbox/tint next to my Gnome desktop using your tutorial.

Haven't discovered any real bugs to speak of. I've only really had luck booting with the xvesa mode on my various Intel-graphics computers, maybe make that the default? My only general comment is the artwork needs a little work (I don't dig the cursive conky font and the giant Arch mouse cursor... love the wallpaper though). And I haven't figured out the persistence feature, any tips on that? Also I applaud your decision to keep things as close to "The Arch Way" as possible, very nice.

Great work so far! Like I said, I have a working Arch install on one computer and #! 9.04 on another computer. Depending on what happens between now and Jaunty end-of-life in October, I could see myself potentially switching the #! computer over to Archbang at that time.

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Kuno wrote:

Translation: That's exactly the link, i used to change my keyboard-layout to german. Result: no keyboard at all.

Yes, but you have to reboot.  Did you follow really all(!) steps?

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klanger wrote:
danielrmt wrote:
vrkalak wrote:

Getting any version of Arch to open to a GUI is almost impossible.
They seem to think, that everyone 'wants' to 'compile' the OS using CLI

<snip>

I'm still playing with it ... learning about Arch and Openbox.

Yeah, you have to learn much about Arch, because Arch have nothing to do with what you have described.

have a look here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

I am an Arch user and I know the Arch Way. It has nothing to do with 'compile the OS' or 'CLI not GUI'. Some archers use full desktops environments like KDE and Gnome. "[Arch Linux] is what you make it".

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@danielrm

Well my post%link was meant for vrkalak wink

Sorry.,. if you felt attacked...

Arch is arch, you can either love it or hate it.

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klanger wrote:

@danielrm

Well my post%link was meant for vrkalak wink

Sorry.,. if you felt attacked...

Arch is arch, you can either love it or hate it.

sorry, misunderstood you...

it happens on the internet

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I've just installed ArchBang!

Tried ArchBang live first and then go through mini-guide of Willxtreme for full install.
Everything works fine and I typing this from Firefox in Arch smile

Now, I have to tune it up and polish..

Best Regards!

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yt wrote:
Kuno wrote:

Translation: That's exactly the link, i used to change my keyboard-layout to german. Result: no keyboard at all.

Yes, but you have to reboot.  Did you follow really all(!) steps?

Rebooted several times, hoping to get the keybaord back - to no avail.
Meanwhile did a new install and have the keyboard running. "locale" gives me "de_DE.utf8" throughout, but to get a german keyboard, i had to add "setxkbmap de" to the autostart.sh. All steps before (editing rc.conf, locale-gen, 10-keymap.fdi) did not work out.

Also had to use sHyLoCk 's tip to get the nvidia-driver working: "pacman -Sd nvidia nvidia-utils --noconfirm". So now i've got something to start with... cool

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danielrmt wrote:
klanger wrote:
danielrmt wrote:

Yeah, you have to learn much about Arch, because Arch have nothing to do with what you have described.

have a look here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

I am an Arch user and I know the Arch Way. It has nothing to do with 'compile the OS' or 'CLI not GUI'. Some archers use full desktops environments like KDE and Gnome. "[Arch Linux] is what you make it".

I'm not offended either.

Perhaps, I worded my statement incorrectly.
I was referring to the installation process, when I mentioned that Arch wants you to compile everything.
From what I've seen ... the Arch installer is not, usually, a graphical 'point and click' but needs to be done via the CLI.
Archbang, in my experience. is an exception to this rule.

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vrkalak wrote:

I'm not offended either.

Perhaps, I worded my statement incorrectly.
I was referring to the installation process, when I mentioned that Arch wants you to compile everything.
From what I've seen ... the Arch installer is not, usually, a graphical 'point and click' but needs to be done via the CLI.
Archbang, in my experience. is an exception to this rule.

Archbang installer is almost the same as the official Arch installer. The difference is that it installs Openbox and stuff by default.

Well the Arch/Archbang installer is a terminal app, but it has menus and options for you. It is similar to Ubuntu server/alternate/minimal installers.

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Only Chakra (KDEMod + Arch based distro) has GUI installer

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Re: www.archbang.org

64 bits version
no luck with nvidia
trying to reinstall according to http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 04#p717804
but first solution gives nvidia package not found not found in sync db
Keeping nv gives
configuration failed
number of screens doesn t match number of detected devices.

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pablokal wrote:

64 bits version
no luck with nvidia
trying to reinstall according to http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 04#p717804
but first solution gives nvidia package not found not found in sync db
Keeping nv gives
configuration failed
number of screens doesn t match number of detected devices.

Fixed. wink

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Hi Shy,
Nice you fixed it but how/when can I use your fix? Or where do I find it?

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pablokal wrote:

Hi Shy,
Nice you fixed it but how/when can I use your fix? Or where do I find it?

I just updated the post you linked to. tongue
The reason you were getting "not found in sync db" error was coz repositories database needed to be created and updated for the first time!
So just use: pacman -Syy

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Well, need some help...
downloaded, install on usb via 

dd if=archbang-1.05-i686.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=8M

and it would not boot from the usb, saying no OS Found.

Ok, no big, but when I went to open the usb drive via my file manager, it cant, saying its not properly formatted. I plugged it into my windows xp computer, and went to format it back to fat32 just to start over but it now says the 1GB drive is only 500MB....

So...what can I do to get my other 500MB back, and what can I do to make the arch iso work?

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Got this error doing pacman -Syy

Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to update core (no servers configured for repository)
error: failed to update extra (no servers configured for repository)
error: failed to update community (no servers configured for repository)
error: failed to synchronize any databases

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Re: www.archbang.org

Check the mirrorlist under /etc/pacman.d/ and make sure it has some mirrors uncommented.

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stopie wrote:

Well, need some help...
downloaded, install on usb via 

dd if=archbang-1.05-i686.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=8M

and it would not boot from the usb, saying no OS Found.

Ok, no big, but when I went to open the usb drive via my file manager, it cant, saying its not properly formatted. I plugged it into my windows xp computer, and went to format it back to fat32 just to start over but it now says the 1GB drive is only 500MB....

So...what can I do to get my other 500MB back, and what can I do to make the arch iso work?

Replace /dev/sdx with the actual name of your USB device (for example /dev/sdb). You can use fdisk -l if you're not sure. Be careful you get it right, dd is a powerful command!

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Re: www.archbang.org

Check the mirrorlist under /etc/pacman.d/ and make sure it has some mirrors uncommented.

Already found that solution installed Nvidia drivers but still no show.
Error message> fatal server error no screen found
I tried to install the nvidia-beta drivers and nvidia-utils-beta but not found.
Installed the default and shows in the xorg.0.log:  nvidia glx module 195.39.80 loaded.
I gues this is an older one. (this guess proved to be wrong)
Starting the live session got the choice: nvidia  graphic card found  greater than GF FX? Yes or no

Always choose yes and the right nvidia driver was installed as the desktop loaded ok.
So I guess I need to uninstall the older nvida driver and find a way to intall the newer one.


Second guess was that there wa a wrong xorg.conf. this proved the way to a solution
replaced wrong setup with:

Section "Device"
   Identifier     "Device0"
   Driver         "nvidia"
   VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection


then was able to login normally.
This problem solved.

Last edited by pablokal (2010-03-05 21:22:37)

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170 Reply by Kuno

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For those who want autologin, edit /etc/inittab according to this wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Boot.
Boots about 7 seconds faster than madbox-9.10 on my system (28 from grub to conky).

Had an "exit/reboot not working" -bug. Fixed by editing /etc/sudoers: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 21#p720621.

Even if it might not be the arch way, a gui for installing packages for me seems simpler than memorizing all the pacman commands - so i installed gtkpacman. wink

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snowpine wrote:

Replace /dev/sdx with the actual name of your USB device (for example /dev/sdb). You can use fdisk -l if you're not sure. Be careful you get it right, dd is a powerful command!

That was how I did it, it was sdb at the time, and thats what did, and somehow I lost my 500 megs sad

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stopie wrote:

That was how I did it, it was sdb at the time, and thats what did, and somehow I lost my 500 megs sad

If you have a Crunchbang or Ubuntu live CD try to launch gparted e see if you can reallocate the 500 megs of the usb drive.

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ErSandro wrote:
stopie wrote:

That was how I did it, it was sdb at the time, and thats what did, and somehow I lost my 500 megs sad

If you have a Crunchbang or Ubuntu live CD try to launch gparted e see if you can reallocate the 500 megs of the usb drive.

It worked! Thank you! Wow...finally something that windows couldn't do that linux could...I usually use windows to format things but i think that can change now, gparted has many more functions, and seems a bit better now too smile

Crazy how I'm still learning about things that have been under my nose for two years tongue ... linux will always find a way to keep me humble

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cheers wink

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stopie wrote:

Well, need some help...
downloaded, install on usb via 

dd if=archbang-1.05-i686.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=8M

and it would not boot from the usb, saying no OS Found.

Since i had the same problem (dd not writing anything on my thub-drive), i installed "sdd" from the ubuntu-repos. Then "sdd if=archbang-xxx.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=8M" did the trick.