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Since I de-installed Mandriva on it and want to keep Vista, I managed to royally fubar my grub, so nothing would boot at all.
Reinstalling was impossible too I just got "there is an error" so I had a useless box at my hand. The solution was a Mandriva free usb pen. It has the repair functions but even that would not fix my grub. But It easily reinstalled the Windows boot.
That is where I am at now, I will let you know..................
Oh yes you might wonder how I can set up Arch without an "s" on my keyboard - That is the easy one:
I just hit ALT and punch 115 then I let ALT go and the "s" is on the screen.
The problem with dual boot these days is that Windows comes with several primary partitions. Since there is a maximum of four, there are not enough primary partitions left for Linux.
I just got to many primary partitions so I removed Windows
Auto partitioning went fine.
Installing the software now. All of base and a bit of base-devel. No problems.
Configuring... Seems okay.
Time to reboot
The testing can begin.
Got the repositories set in /etc/pacman.conf and downloading the meta-package "base" It sure is a lot of software
Ok got ssh running so I can remote control the lap. I now have the server set up so what can I do with it? I decided to make it a LAMP server.
LAMP= Linux Apache Mysql PHP (or Perl or Python or all of them )
That is a lot to install. Got apache, php, and mysql installed now and want to test it with phpmyadmin. PHPmyadmin was in the server repos - that is nice - Centos does not have it in their standard repos.
To do that I need to configure mysql:
Start the deamon
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sudo /etc/rc.d/mysqld start
And then I need to configure Mysql like this:
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sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
Hit enter on the first prompt because you have no password yet. Then answer Yes and provide a password for the mysql root user (That has nothing to do with the Linux root user - remember that!)
After that you can safely answer "Y" to any question.
And then I needed to download some PHP and the Archserver site was down -including the repos!
Not very reassuring for a server site if you ask me (uh. server must be down ).
I think I'll drop this one and set up the regular arch as a server.