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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Needs for installing Arch/Linux? Post 302070385 by rhfrommn on Tuesday 4th of April 2006 11:33:21 AM

04-04-2006

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I've dabbled with arch for a couple years and like it a lot. Arch has really good support on their website. To get you started here is the wiki page for installation, with links to about anything you'd need for installing Arch on a new box:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...y:Installation

And here is the Official Arch Linux Installation Guide:
http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/gui...all-guide.html

The basic plan is to download and burn an install CD. I used just the base install, then got everything else from their FTP site. With pacman that is extremely easy since you can just do pacman -S to install a new package with all dependencies taken care of. As long as you have a fast internet connection I'd recommend going that way. If not, you may want the full install CD instead of the base.

As far as what to write down, make sure you have all your networking info and hardware info. The installer will ask you lots of questions to help set up that stuff and get you to the ftp repository. Once you are that far you should be good to go.

Also get a ID on their forums if you haven't yet. I usually get good answers to my questions within a few hours at most.

I've not tried using it on a laptop, but that config you have is plenty good enough. My first Arch box was a 1998 vintage Pentium II 350Mhz with only 256 meg of ram in it, and Arch was screaming fast on that. The only worry I'd have is if the built in modem is one of those Winmodems that runs only with Windows. If you have that it might be a problem, otherwise you should be fine.

Good luck,
Ralph

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import-bug-from-debian(1)				      General Commands Manual					 import-bug-from-debian(1)

NAME

       import-bug-from-debian - Import bugs from Debian's BTS, and file them against Ubuntu in LP.

SYNOPSIS

       import-bug-from-debian [options] bug...
       import-bug-from-debian -h

DESCRIPTION

       import-bug-from-debian  clones  bugs  from Debian's BTS into Launchpad. Each bug listed on the command line has its initial report re-filed
       against the same source package in Ubuntu.  The Ubuntu bug is linked back to its Debian counterpart.

       Each bug may be provided either as a bug number or URL.

OPTIONS

       -b, --browserless
	      Don't open the bug in a browser at the end.

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -l INSTANCE, --lpinstance=INSTANCE
	      Use the specified instance of Launchpad (e.g. "staging"), instead of the default of "production".

       -p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE
	      Launchpad package to file bug against, if not the same source package name as Debian.   Useful  for  importing  removal  bugs  filed
	      against ftp.debian.org.

       --no-conf
	      Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables.

ENVIRONMENT

       All  of	the  CONFIGURATION  VARIABLES  below are also supported as environment variables.  Variables in the environment take precedence to
       those in configuration files.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The following variables can be set in the environment or in ubuntu-dev-tools(5) configuration files.  In  each  case,  the  script-specific
       variable takes precedence over the package-wide variable.

       IMPORT_BUG_FROM_DEBIAN_LPINSTANCE, UBUNTUTOOLS_LPINSTANCE
	      The default value for --lpinstance.

SEE ALSO

       ubuntu-dev-tools(5)

AUTHORS

       import-bug-from-debian  was  written  by  James	Westby <james.westby@ubuntu.com>, and this manual page was written by Stefano Rivera <ste-
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