Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:07:34AM EDT, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [..] Bit of a shame Archlinux does not provide a live environment that lets you verify you can run X11.. connect to the network.. etc. You can connect to the network with the live-cd, since the netinstall uses the internet

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:15:42AM EDT, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 23/06/12 06:41, Chris Jones wrote: [..] Please note that bridge-gnome is not supported by Archlinux and is not recommended as installation media. Thanks. I looked inside the bridge-gnome iso.. but I don't know enough about

[arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
I am a long-time debian user. Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso’ and booted successfully.. but afaict.. it only lets me run the

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:38:48PM EDT, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: On 22 June 2012 20:34, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: I am a long-time debian user. [..] You're not missing a thing, archlinux doesn't have that kind of liveCDs, just the installer. At least officially. Can't remember

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 03:30:13PM EDT, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: [..] Also, I'd highly suggest rolling out VirtualBox and playing with an installation. This will 1) mean you won't bork your existing system, I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) CJ -- Focus follow mouse users will burn

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 06:55:22PM EDT, David Benfell wrote: You could try archboot[1]. tpowa has been doing a great job at providing unofficial up-to-date install/live images. They provide the same as the official install images (but up-to-date :p) so don't expect any fancy guis. [1]

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:16:17PM EDT, C Anthony Risinger wrote: [..] Or yet-another-option -- my personal favorite thanks to unusual levels of utility and awesome -- you can dynamic netboot Arch from a 1/2 MiB PXE image: http://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/ ... as linked on the

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:09:41AM EDT, David Benfell wrote: On 06/22/12 20:48, Chris Jones wrote I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) nag s/never/have not yet/ /nag hehe.. Actually, I once did end up with an unbootable system on a couple of occasions.. one time it was caused

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:10:05AM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: [..] Downloading.. thanks.. Duplicated the grub entry for the Arch iso: | menuentry bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso { | set isofile=/iso/bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso | loopback loop (hd0,7)$isofile | linux (loop)/arch