On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:22:02 +0100 Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:

Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2007 schrieb Travis Willard:

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Hey guys,

Just got my wife a brand-new laptop, and I'm 'inheriting' her 'old' desktop PC, which was overall better than mine. As a result, I'll be pseudo-absent for the next little bit, as I go nuts formatting partitions and re-installing Arch from scratch. This will be interesting - last full install, which I'm still working on now, was in 2005.

I'll still be checking emails from work if it takes longer than expected to set stuff up, and so I should still be able to reply to pertinent things and handle logo contest submissions and stuff like that, so that's why it's only a pseudo-absense.

I'll let you all know how it goes. :)

-- Travis

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Used 2007.10-0.3 for reinstalling the system. A Used gparted liveCD to partition my drives before installing anything, then installed Windows XP, after which I installed Arch. The install was smooth, and I had no real problems, but my setup isn't very exotic - ntfs for windows, and ext3 for every other partition in existence. Two PATA HDDs, 160GB and 120GB, and two DVDRW drives. A couple of minor annoyances: 1) while setting mountpoints, I accidentally selected my Windows partition when I was selecting /home - I hit the <Cancel> button and had to start over from the very beginning - specifying root, swap, /boot all over again, even though I selected the correct ones before. This happened a couple of times (hit the wrong partition for /boot the second time - clumsy me.) Would be better if the 'cancel' button, when setting up a single mountpoint, would bring you back to the list of available filesystems, just cancelling out the previously-selected one, and the 'cancel' button on that list would bring you back to the main menu. 2) Output grabbing was a bit off - when installing packages with pacman through the installer some lines appeared to the left outside of the box they're supposed to stay in. Neither a critical issue, and since those were the only problems I had, I'd say it was a great success. I was back up and running with my familiar /home in no time. :) Basically, I'd sign it off for my particular setup. ;) -- Travis