archbang

http://archbang.org/
Inspired by CrunchBang Linux.

2011-08-12 linux testing nightmare:

My pre-installation notes:

Super-t for a terminal
sudo abinstall
set up the clock
prep the HDD
install
configure (root pass, add a user)
install GRUB
sudo passwd root or the default password is 'root'.
- The installer does this.

The installer guided me through all of this, all I needed to know was how to get a terminal and begin the install. Shouldn't the first run already do this, or shouldn't there be a desktop icon? Oh hell, are they doing things "the Arch way" ?

Couldn't delete an old ldlinux.sys off of my USB, so I reformatted (ext2), which took a long time.

ArchBang 2011-02-04 x86_64

failed to find the usb when booting
safe mode also fails

FAIL

ArchBang 2011-02-04 i686

I had the same issues.. but I learned that I should not be using unetbootin. I forgot about the Arch Linux use of dd.

Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201102 ...

Looks and feels good.
Simple and somewhat 'simple' (nearly retarded) text install.
Had to not bother with any of my data partitions, it was too retarded. I'll do that in fstab manually. Editing fstab was easily done with the installer.
No 'user' group was made.
Console root login tries to launch X.. what the fuck?
creating a new user does nothing, no setup. I had to edit ~/.initrc to add openbox. So this needs serious tweaking!
~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc
my first pacman -Sy wine needed an upgrade, then pacman-db-upgrade
pacman doesn't fucking resolve dependencies?!?!
- I tried installing Firefox and Midori, and they downloaded and installed, and with some other software, but both wouldn't actually start up.
gnome-packagekit doesn't actually install anything GUI .. what the fuck is going on?

FIN.

Checking out CTKArch.