Articles July 30, 2013

Day 124 Leeds railway tunnel

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Articles July 30, 2013

Bare bones Arch Linux Install

Note: 1 of this post’s 5 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.

Something to do at lunchtime to get you more familiar with Linux, create a barebones Arch Linux VM. Taken from this article at Lifehacker I've compressed it into the following steps.

Download image from https://www.archlinux.org/
Partition hard drives /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 with GParted as ext 4
Boot from ISO and check, setup network https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Wired
Mount partitions mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; mkdir /mnt/home; mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/home
mkswap /dev/sda3 ; swapon /dev/sda3
Edit Mirror List vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Install base pacstrap -i /mnt base
genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
nano /etc/locale.gen
echo LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc
systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0.service
passwd
useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/bash alastair
passwd alastair
pacman -S sudo
visudo to uncomment wheel group sudo access
pacman -S grub-bios
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit, unmount, reboot
sudo pacman -S alsa-utils
alsamixer ; speaker-test -c 2
pacman -S xf86-video-vesa
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm
sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu
pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies
systemctl disable fam.service
pacman -Rd fam
pacman -S gamin
cp /etc/skel/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc ; vi .xinitrc
pacman -S openssh
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