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

2012-06-25 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 25/06/12 06:32, Chris Jones wrote: 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

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

2012-06-25 Thread Jesse Jaara
you verify you can run X11.. connect to the network.. etc. You can run X11 easily as long ass you don't have some relic from 70s or some arm system, even then basic vesa driver should work.

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

2012-06-25 Thread gt
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: 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

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

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

2012-06-23 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 23/06/12 06:41, Chris Jones wrote: 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

[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 Alexandre Ferrando
On 22 June 2012 20:34, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2012-06-22 Thread Jesse Juhani Jaara
pe, 2012-06-22 kello 14:34 -0400, Chris Jones kirjoitti: 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 installer. What do you mean it only lets you run the installer? Our isos are full livecds. Once you boot

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

2012-06-22 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 23 June 2012 02:34, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: 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..? You are already in a live environment. It is console-based and provides

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

2012-06-22 Thread Martti Kühne
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:34:06PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: 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

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

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 22 Jun 2012 21:43:06 Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: Just login as root and start bagging in sed and awk clauses to the console ^_^ should work. Also, I'd highly suggest rolling out VirtualBox and playing with an installation. This will 1) mean you won't bork your existing system, and 2)

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

2012-06-22 Thread Mauro Santos
On 22-06-2012 19:34, Chris Jones wrote: 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

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

2012-06-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/12 15:10, Mauro Santos 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

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

2012-06-22 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jun 22, 2012 5:55 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: On 06/22/12 15:10, Mauro Santos 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

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 David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/12 20:48, Chris Jones wrote I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) nag s/never/have not yet/ /nag - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

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