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Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
by Ike Devolder
Published by Packt Publishing, 2012
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Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
The Arch Way
Bleeding edge
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
1. Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
Installing Arch Linux using the Archboot ISO (Should know)
Configuring your system (Should know)
Installing and removing packages (Must know)
Booting and managing services with systemd (Should know)
Booting and managing services using initscripts (Should know)
Configuring GUI using Xorg (Should know)
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Preface
History
The Arch Way
Bleeding edge
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to
Installing Arch Linux using the official ISO (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Using the ISO from a USB drive
Having problems verifying the ISO signature?
A good partition scheme for desktops
Netcfg sample configurations
Genfstab extra options
Final installation of Syslinux
Installing Arch Linux using the Archboot ISO (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
The ISOs can be used from a USB drive
Selecting local time versus UTC
A safe partition size choice for desktop systems
Selecting the desired filesystem
What about the filesystem on boot?
Naming schemes for block devices
A good partition scheme for desktops
Selecting a mirror geographically close to you
What packages to select
Having the extra repository enabled
Configuring your system (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
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Finding your time zone
Installing and removing packages (Must know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
The pacman.conf options
Some repository samples
More information about official and unofficial repositories
More information on the ABS
Booting and managing services with systemd (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Systemd only initialization
Set the target on the kernel command line
List all available services
Default actions for services
Check if a service will be started at boot
Disable a service from starting during boot
Booting and managing services using initscripts (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
The runlevels
Setting the default runlevel in the kernel command line
The default actions
The rc.d helper
Daemons can be started in the background
Leave a daemon in the array without being started
Get a list of the available daemons
Configuring GUI using Xorg (Should know)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Directly using Xorg
Using Xorg with a window manager or a desktop environment
Using Xorg with a display manager
Setting keyboard layout in the configuration files
Finding the keyboard options
Finding what graphics card is used on your system
Installing the graphics driver
NVIDIA GUI configuration
Autogenerate an Xorg configuration file with AMD
AMD GUI configuration
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