Re: [Staffslug] Staffslug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 27

On 29/10/2007, Martin Cox <martin.a.cox(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > I was up for switching distro anyway, so I thought I'd give Arch a try. I was having some problems getting it to run in a VM though, it won't see the virtual disk for some reason during the install, any ideas? Yes, there's something weird going on with VM, create a Red Hat machine but call it ArchLinux that'll sort you out. :-) > > > I eventually installed it over the top of Ubuntu on my laptop anyway, so it's not that important. Although, it'd be nice if I could VM it on my work machine and have a play. See above. > > > I only downloaded the base install .iso (I'm not even sure whether there's a full installation or not), so I'm stuck in CLI at the moment. The only network cable that I had last didn't seem to work, I'll have to *borrow* one from work. Seems cool though. So to your answer your question, I'm an Arch user, nearly anyways lol. dick_turpin looks really worried now as he will be called upon for help :-/ You'll need to install KDE or Gnome if you want compiz-fusion, soft as it sounds, you may be better off installing GDM even if you plum for KDE (That's what I have) once that's done you'll need to edit rc.conf and add them there (there's no bleedin /etc/init.d by the way) have a look on the Arch wiki as that gives you all you need for setting it up. > > > Who's the guy who organises the meeting at Keele? Does he work there? No he's a bum ;-) > > Well, up until last night I was running Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop, I quite like it. However, it gets a little bit boring - all my hardware was working as expected, most apps that I needed were already installed etc, nothing left to do really. And you're complaining?? Sounds like Linux heaven to me. While I'm not personally a fan of Ubuntu I do have it installed on an IBM X20 I prefer Arch or openSUSE I'll be bringing my ArchLinux lappy to the meet so you can have a look if you come along and see compiz-fusion do its thing "Catch that paper dart Stuart".

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