Jul 11
Scribbled on Friday, July 11th, 2008
Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 4:28 PM IST
NOTE: This walk-through is still in progress and certain amendments are being done.
So there is this new linux that everyone is talking about. My friends at Digit Forum said that this one is a killer at speed and performance. Its much more responsive than any other linux out there. But a downside is that its not really easy for a newbie to install it. I thought of giving it a try and found it quite amazing. Its nearly upto my expectations. I am loving this distro more than any other now. Its all about speed, beauty and response. I will be showing the steps to get a perfect desktop in Arch Linux from the command line startup. Remember there are some nifty tricks and a good amount of things I have learned while installing.
I won’t be writing complete steps for base system install.
Install Base system
- Install the base system from the CD
- Remember to choose nano as the text editor.
- Remember to select ntfs-3g in devel packages.
- Now you should be presented with a bash shell.
- Login as root user.
Setting up Network using command line
- First strep is to setup the rc.conf file for network. Remember we are setting static network address and not DHCP.
- Before that you have to see which one of your ethernet card is connected to internet
Hunting down the Ethernet Card
- You will be using “ifconfig” command to do that
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
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