Re: [arch-general] dualboot?

2010-05-27 Thread Louis Brazeau
nother distribution first (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, etc). If you find you like Linux then you should give Arch a try. You'll love it and you will *learn a lot*. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Windows_and_Arch_Dual_Boot -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Louis Brazeau
Personally, I use Goggle Music Manager. It's light weight and and it lets you select the base directory for all you music with a few keystrokes. -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Brazeau
v/md0. Does that look correct or can I not do > RAID1 on 3 devices? Should I have added '--spare-device=1' to that > command? > > Now I would do: > > mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 > /dev/sdc2 > > Then mount / on /dev/md1. > > Do both commands look OK? > Yes, both look ok to me. -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Louis Brazeau wrote: >> You are aware that if sda breaks, you loose the /boot partition and >> you can't boot anymore ? I would suggest creating a 100MB /boot >> partition on al

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Brazeau
You are aware that if sda breaks, you loose the /boot partition and you can't boot anymore ? I would suggest creating a 100MB /boot partition on all 3 disks as a RAID 1 (4GB for boot is over kill IMHO). That way you can loose any disk and still be able to boot. Good luck -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien

Re: [arch-general] Software RAID w/ 4 Drives Fails

2010-01-22 Thread Louis Brazeau
r RAID. I have a RAID 5 with 3 drives and like you said, that works. About loosing your keyboard. Do you have a USB keyboard ? If so, do you have "usbinput" in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf ? -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-12 Thread Louis Brazeau
ike FVWM (and FVWM-Crystal) configurability. Although it's a steep learning curve at first, I managed to get the basics to my liking farely quickly (thanks in part to the concept of recepies) and I will do more tweaking as I go along. For some screenshot you can check out http://www.fvwm-crystal.org/screenshots.html -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-24 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Raeven K.Bathory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this resvolved? > can you try pacman-git from aur if not? > It might be resolved. In the past I used yaourt to install some packages. So, when I update my system I do yaourt -Syu --aur. Then I got this error and I s

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-24 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting. Can you install anything else BEFORE xorg-twm? > > How about checking your *local* DB with the command Nathan provided: > find /var/lib/pacman/local -name desc -exec grep -L FILENAME {} \; > Here's a pastebi

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting. Can you install anything else BEFORE xorg-twm? > I just installed tzdata-2008h-1. No problem. > How about checking your *local* DB with the command Nathan provided: > find /var/lib/pacman/local -name desc -

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From this, either "xorg-twm" or "inputproto" would be next in the > targets list, meaning pacman might be failing on one of those... > > -Dan > Ok, got it! It's "xorg-twm" that is causing the problem : # pacman -Sp xorg-twm r

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Raeven K.Bathory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what happens if you remove the possibly corrupted cached file > /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xextproto-7.0.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > The line : debug: setting download size 0 for pkg xextproto changes to : debug: setting

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Louis Brazeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Can you run with --debug and

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you run with --debug and show us the output? > Aaron Griffin is trying to help me with my problem! I feel blessed :) The output of --debug is quite long so I thought I'd better put it on pastebin. Here's the link :

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try using pacman -Syyu > Same error unfortunatly : # pacman -Syyu :: Synchronizing package databases... core 31.4K 90.0K/s 00:00:00 []

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Louis Brazeau wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a problem upgrading my x86_64 system. It started a couple of >> days ago when my pacman -Syu reported that libxml2 could not b

[arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Louis Brazeau
Hi all, I have a problem upgrading my x86_64 system. It started a couple of days ago when my pacman -Syu reported that libxml2 could not be fetched. I decided to wait a while and try again. This morning I tryed again and when asked to replace gail with extra/gtk2 I accepted. Then I got an error m