So more questions that I didn't get around to asking earlier and thought
of after sending that first message
1. I've run into this (mostly) on a VM, but is there an advantage of
grub over system-d boot? I've never got a VM to boot using grub so I'm
not sure how it'd afect bare metal
2. From an A-A11y perspective. I'm noting down what I need. Here's my
current list
alsa-utils espeakup orca speech-dispatcher
Is that all I need for a working DE like Gnome or Mate, i.e. can I just
install those four packages, dependencies, and and end up with a working
system?
I don't really want to nuke my Solus install until I know Arch is
working, but equally I don't want to overdo installing stuff and get
swampd with a hundred updates every day for an extreme example. I've
managed to pare it down to one or two with a lean, minimal system.
Hopefully I can replicate that on bare metal
So given I've Solus on /dev/sda, and I put Arch on /dev/sdb for example,
would I need to install Grub to be able to swap between the two
installed OSes as needed? I'm not 100% sure if installing Grub as part
of the Arch install will break being able to boot into Solus though
On 1/20/22 12:28, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 12:12:54AM +0000, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
So, as it says. I very much like my Arch VM.
And I've done a ton of installs on a qemu VM, though I'm now thinking of
switching to bare metalso I can tweak my system how I want.
So....before I do this.
1. I'm worried something'll go wrong in the archinstall script, or the
manual install and nuke my (currently working) system
if you are careful when partitioning the disk, then this will not happen.
2. Will my USB headphones be connected out of the box or not? On a VM they
are but that doesn't mean a thing when it comes to bare metal
I think yes. if not please email me at alex19ep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
3. I have two machines, one's /dev/sda, which I'm assuming will likely
install fine, hopefully
THe other, a laptop, is /dev/nvme, which is what I'm worried about. Anything
special I need for Arch to install on an NVME?
no. but I recommend to read archwiki page about nvme.
4. Can I with two HDD, /dev/sda (my current Solus system)wor and /dev/sdb (a
2.7T drive), install Arch on /dev/sdb and pick and choose which distro to
boot? I remember way to do a console command to reboot and have Grub select
which to boot up, but I'm not sure if that's still a thing?
sure you can. if you have efi, then it will be very simple.
5. Was there ever a consensus on how often to do a pacman -Syyu in Arch?
as often as you need it. the only problem is that if you do not update
system for a very long time (for example, a year), then later it can
be a little more difficult to do.
--
Sincerely, Alexander
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