[imranka]

Manchunian,

I'm following this thread with great interest and maybe I'll give Arch a try in the "not" so near future when the newbieness sheds from my body. Today I's reading the wiki article, i.e, official installation guide. One thing confuses me - it says the iso is a minimum installation disc ranging in size from 150MB-300 MB, and the extra packages can be installed from the net during installation itself. So, like me, I have a adsl modem, how can I make the connection working at the time of installation? Did you do the same thing, installing extra packages at the time of install or you had them in the disc? Can you shed some light on this?

[geniuz]

Originally Posted by imranka

Manchunian,

I'm following this thread with great interest and maybe I'll give Arch a try in the "not" so near future when the newbieness sheds from my body. Today I's reading the wiki article, i.e, official installation guide. One thing confuses me - it says the iso is a minimum installation disc ranging in size from 150MB-300 MB, and the extra packages can be installed from the net during installation itself. So, like me, I have a adsl modem, how can I make the connection working at the time of installation? Did you do the same thing, installing extra packages at the time of install or you had them in the disc? Can you shed some light on this?

If you have a working connection there's nothing to worry about...
Arch will configure the network itself before installing the packages, in fact you can see it in the menu, its the first thing it does...

[imranka]

Thanks geniuz, that means the necessary package like rp-pppoe is there in the disc. Well, that solves the problem.

Oh, one thing, I saw your site, it looks great, but some trivial details - the heading and the scrolling text has one typo: "geniuz.org lauched". And also, when I'm placing the mouse over contact me, it's not changing to the hand-with-raised-index-finger pointer but the same arrow pointer, have you wanted just that?

Thanks

[geniuz]

Originally Posted by imranka

Thanks geniuz, that means the necessary package like rp-pppoe is there in the disc. Well, that solves the problem.

Oh, one thing, I saw your site, it looks great, but some trivial details - the heading and the scrolling text has one typo: "geniuz.org lauched". And also, when I'm placing the mouse over contact me, it's not changing to the hand-with-raised-index-finger pointer but the same arrow pointer, have you wanted just that?

Thanks

Yip the cursor thing is correct, did that un purpose, I never liked the one finger hand arrow...and thanks for pointing out the typo ^^

typed that text in kindoff a hurry, so...

anyway thanks for your comment, glad you like it ^^

[Manchunian]

Hi imranka,

Glad my thread has given someone else the motivation to give Arch a try.

[carlosponti]

Not going to say I liked it much. I tried it in a virtual machine ans aside from being kind of neat and small it was particularly useless for my taste. Slackware is just as configurable and small and can be installed way easier. I had hopes that there would be some reason I would want to use it more than i do with my current ubuntu. thought If i wanted this kind of comparability i would just use linux from scratch. to each his own i guess. I always was told distro choice was like ice cream not everyone likes vanilla or chocolate. but i doubt its the future of linux

[ozar]

Yep, Arch is pretty much a hate it, or love it distro.

I've been in the love it camp for going on 4 years, now.