Hey,

On 16 April 2016 at 22:22, bill . billwx@live.com wrote:

Hello everyone,

New member here and new Arch user having come over from arch-based Manjaro. I admit i installed with Architect and am thankful for it as i don't know that i would have been able to do so without it. So far my experience has been a good one, but i know i have much to learn.

​Welcome to Arch. Always nice to see new faces.​

One thing that puzzles me is with every other linux i've used i formatted a

usb flash drive with the command sudo mkdosfs -n xxxx -I /dev/sdx where x's are specific to file names and disk drives. This does not work in my Arch (the development version and lxqt. Is there a different way specific to Arch, or something i need to download to get this function?

mkdosfs in part of the dosfstools package. In general, if you're looking for a specific tool (or other file) you can search the repositories for it using pkgfile. You first have to install pkgfile though, it's in the pkgfile package ;)

Also, usually when i first install a linux there are updates, sometimes

tons of them. When i use pacman -Syu it says there is nothing to update. Is this common/ correct?

​That is correct, arch installs by downloading the latest packages from a mirror, so you always install a fully up-to-date system​. I must admit I don't know what Architect is, but I imagine this is still true.

I appreciate Arch for its up to date repository, among many other things.

There are just a few things i need to know in order to use it better. Good to be a part of the real deal. Many thanks for your time!

peace

-bill

​I hope this helps.

Cheers, Maarten​