After 4 years with kubuntu I finally moved to arch linux. I have been thinking for a while to switch to arch linux, ever since my not so good experience with jaunty. I have been trying out karmic alphas and as of last Friday I was running a fully updated karmic alpha 5. Then on Friday I switched to arch Linux. I was planning to complete the set on Friday from office itself, but the initial cd I burned was damaged and I thought I can complete the setup back home.
Before trying out set up myself I tried it on virtual box and my initial impression was just awesome.
Before last Friday I had a dual boot setup with XP and kubuntu karmic alpha. I was planning to install arch on the same ext4 partition as karmic, but the partition manager in arch installer was cribbing about bad cylinder something in my extended partition where karmic have been. (I forgot the exact error. Bad memory). Then I thought why I need the dual boot setup. So I decided to remove XP completely and have arch alone. So I gave the installer permission to use the entire hard disk and it did.
The setup took barely 15 minutes and then I booted into my arch Linux. Well only thing I had was a terminal no desktop environment and all. It was a plain system with and I had to setup what ever I wanted to have.
It already been a long post The configuration hassles I will follow up in another post.
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