CCdoh! (mirrorlist snafu)
Posted by jamba on February 12, 2010
So, I’ve been rolling along find with my Arch Linux installs. Well, almost. When I installed the system on my laptop, I had somehow forgotten the root password, but was still able to do everything with sudo.
However, I could not run rankmirrors with sudo, so I figured “hey, I can run rankmirrors on my desktop, and then copy that mirrorlist file over to the laptop”–good idea, right? Yeah…if your laptop and desktop are both the same architecture. My laptop is 32 bit, and my desktop is 64 bit. That did not work out so well, and I realized exactly what I had done as soon as I hit ‘enter’ after typing “powerpill -Syu’. Okay, after the installation started, if I had realized sooner I could have hit ctrl+C to stop it.
Anyway, this gave me an excuse to do a fresh install. I thought about just doing Ubuntu or something easier like that, but I really think I like Arch too much. This time actually went really smooth. X worked without a hitch, all of the other setup was a no-brainer. I have still made use of the beginner’s guide document, though. Now I am just installing gnome, and I am more or less done, just a few small things left to set up.
At least this time I remember my root password!
Setup screenshot:
Lazarus screenshot 20100216
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