Hello, A few comments: * Getting wireless while installing, one solution could be use the GRML LiveCD and get pacman working on that. GRML has some nice tools for on a LiveCD, grml-network would be useful here (it was almost too simple to set up a connection to a WPA protected wireless network with that). You can find details of installing ArchLinux from existing Linux on the Arch wiki (NOTE: on that page it says use the static build of pacman but it points to an old version of pacman which can't manage some of the newer packages in the repository, either try and satisfy the dependencies of the standard version or use a mirror which doesn't seem to have any pkg.tar.xz packages (I found the mirrors.uk2.net ones work)). * Regardless of how you install Arch, remember make sure you install the required wireless packages to the system when you do the install. * May be CDRWs have moved on from when I used them (well over 5 years ago), but I found they seemed to get corrupted fairly quickly. An alternative would be use a USB drive if your computer supports booting from USB. Michael Whapples On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Chris Brannon wrote: > Keith Hinton wrote: > >> How goes the TalkingArch project? >> I am curious to know if it is even still active-as no new blog posts >> have been forthcoming sinse the hint about what's upcoming. >> > I'm still here. I have a test image for x86_64 that includes both Speakup > and brltty. A few have used it. > I build x86_64 images under qemu, since I'm still using a 32-bit machine. > There hasn't been an official ArchLinux CD release since August of 2009. > Mine will follow theirs, whenever that is. > > >> While I burned the first Test image to disk, I don't have anymore blank media >> > Recordable CDs are very cheap, even for me. I'm dirt poor. > Get a few CDRWs, and you won't have to worry about media for some time. > I seem to recall that each disk is good for a hundred rewrites or so. > If you can't get to a store, order them online. > For that matter, I'd probably be willing to ship you a 5-pack of CDRWs, > and it wouldn't cost you a penny. I need a postal address, of course. > > >> What about the WPA stuff? >> > Well, I think you need the wpa_supplicant package for that. > It isn't on my TalkingArch CD. > For that matter, it's not on the official netinstall CD, either. > Early this morning, I sent a patch to the ArchLinux releng list, > adding wpa_supplicant to the list of packages on the official netinstall CD. > > WPA was a real bear for me. I had to use it in grad school, to access > my university's wireless LAN. Good luck! > > -- Chris > PS. Next time, please show me a little courtesy, and wait a little longer for > my reply before airing your complaints on a public ML. > >
