Beginner's guide?

How do I run the beginner's guide after getting past the install script?

caelestis wrote:
What's the point of the beginner's guide if I can't read it while installing?
Is there anyway?
The Installation Guide is like the Begginner's but with less crap, and less explained, getting you directly to the point. The Begginer's Guide can be read before installing, to get some hints of what to do.

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Beginner's guides

Hi,
is there any beginners guide to Oracle from a first install? I have installed oracle and know it works, but cannot suss much else.
Is there a beginner's guide or book to oracle that tells you things from an initial perspective including things like how to find out the table and procedure names installed.
select * from systables doesn't work.
Thanks,
Ian

You don't say which version of Oracle you've installed. Lesson 1: the database version is ofetn a significant factor in the answer to any Oracle question you ask. :)
The following link will take you to a FAQ which links to the online Oracle documentation for both 8i and 9i. I suggest you follow the List of books link. Of particular significance to you will be the Getting to know Oracle 8i (there doesn't seem to be an equivalent for 9i, but the introduction 8i will give you lots to be getting on with. Also check out the Concepts as a firm underrstanding of Oracle architecture will stand you in good stead.
Re: Calling a service method from a DataAction
Good luck, APC

Printing the Beginner's Guide

Hello,
Maybe I did something wrong? I wanted to print the "Beginner's Guide Wiki" for reference. Using FF3 (from a different machine), I clicked on the "Printable Version" link, and proceeded to print. The regular text of the Wiki printed fine. However, the boxes (outlined in dashes) that contain the commands to enter did not print. I just have blank spaces where the command line text should be. One of the main reasons that I wanted to print the wiki was to have this information readily available whilst installing and configuring Arch. Now I have a large stack of paper with a lot of important information missing. Any ideas what went wrong?

For what its worth, I finally figured it out. If I select individual pages or ranges of pages to print in the FF print dialog, I have the above-mentioned issues. If I print the whole document, on the other hand, everything is fine. Strange huh?

Following Beginner's Guide, but one command is "not found" - alsact1

Hello
I'm following the Beginner's guide and doing everything exactly as it says. However, when i get to the Sound Card setup instructions (using ALSA) one of the commands it is telling me to use returns the error "-bash: alsact1: command not found"
I have done everything exactly as per the directions. According to the instructions, this command saves the mixer settings so that on boot-up, the volume levels are as they were previously.
I wasn't able to create the file that "alsact1" is supposed to create, but upon boot-up, the sound levels appear to be as they were last time. so everything works just fine.
Should I just forget about the "alsact1" command and move on? Anyone else have this issue? Is there a fix? or is it a typo in the instructions?
Thanks in advance!

The last letter is an L, not a 1
ie ALSACTL rather than ALSACT1

Possible typo in Beginner's Guide

While going through the Beginner's Guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide), I noticed a word "thw" in "Swap partition" section. There is only 1 occurrence, so it's easy to find. Perhaps it's a typo for "the".
sol

It's a wiki. You can fix it yourself.

[SOLVED] Cannot install python per instructions in Beginner's Guide.

So, the overview:
I just finished installing as per the Beginner's Guide and have logged in as root.
I've enabled a couple mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Doing NOTHING ELSE I run the following command: "pacman -Sy" python and the result:
python package not found, searching for group...
error: 'python': not found in sync db
After that I tried another suggestion I saw here on the forum: pacman -Sy and then pacman -Syy
Nothing. I thought maybe I botched something on the install, so I did it again. Same result. I cannot get pacman to install python (or ruby) or anything.
What gives?
Last edited by cult hero (2010-01-10 04:51:42)

Yes. If no mirrors are uncommented a different error comes up. (no servers configured for repository)
error: failed to syncronize any databases

Clock showing wrong hour even though I followed the Beginner's Guide

Hey guys,
So today I re-installed ArchLinux & Windows 7 on my laptop, here's how it works:
SSD: ArchLinux x64
HDD: Windows 7
I mainly use Arch, and the few times I use Windows, I choose to boot from my HDD instead of my SSD, from the BIOS.
Technically, it's not a dual boot I guess, so I shouldn't be affected by these manipulations
The time showed in my BIOS is correct.
The time showed by Windows 7 is correct.
The time showed in ArchLinux is however wrong, it's two hours late.
Following the Beginner's Guide I've run these command without success:
hwclock --systohc --utc
If any of you has any suggestions...
Thanks :]

My apologies. I thought that this particular problem between Windows and Linux was caused by Windows somehow overwriting Linux settings, and since in my case they are in different physical drives, I thought I wasn't concerned.
Anyway, since I've read somewhere in the wiki that localtime should be avoided, I successfully did the manipulation do set Windows 7 in UTC.
I've then updated the hardware clock and system clock time, but it didn't change a thing.
I'm going to try the manipulations provided by your link luvfree, thanks
I'll keep you posted, thanks to all of you, and again, my apologies for my wrong asumptions
EDIT: APPARENTLY IT'S SOLVED:
I had to boot into Linux, and set the time manually with:
# date +%T -s "10:13:13"
Then run:
hwclock --systohc --utc
Next boot, the time value were correct int both Linux, AND Windows
Thanks to all of you, I'll try to think more next time
Last edited by Lowra (2012-09-29 08:14:01)

Translation to Spanish of the Beginner's Guide

I am planning to translate the Beginner's Guide to Spanish.
I'd like to help with something more useful than a translation, eventually, like contributing with Arch development (bug fixing?), but I don't have the time and energy to dive into that pool right now (I'm not even used to Linux programming ).
Anyway, the reason for this post, is to ask whether:
1) A Spanish translation of the Beginner's Guide has already been started.
2) The community thinks another doc should take precedence. I chose the Beginner's Guide because it's the single resource that has helped me the most to get my Arch system up and running.

Nuwanda wrote:1) A Spanish translation of the Beginner's Guide has already been started.
Usually people will write it in the wiki, so everyone can see the progress. There doesn't appear to be a spanish version yet.
tip: I would write it in the wiki also, rather than do it offline, as that way other spanish users can aid you aswell.
Nuwanda wrote:2) The community thinks another doc should take precedence. I chose the Beginner's Guide because it's the single resource that has helped me the most to get my Arch system up and running.
No better page in my opinion. Also, you can see the page hits at the bottom, and the english version is standing strong at 123,000 hits!
Oh and btw, good luck!
Last edited by dyscoria (2008-03-27 00:57:21)

[Solved]Oops, I accidentally deleted the "Beginner's Guide" wiki page.

My apologies, I am trying to fix my mistake right now, but if someone could help me out, the sooner the better. I accidentally deleted the Beginner's Guide wiki page, trying to add my own edit. Will post back when I get it back to the last revision.
Last edited by kiloecho7 (2008-12-15 19:24:25)

It seems like everybody and their hot sister heard of this Beranger person except me
Update: can't say I checked any of his older posts but I guess I've seen part of his 'dumping linux' blog post -- most likely the one that 'angried' people and said sisters. I can only ask myself: what the big deal is? Who actually cares? Personally I never understood blogs nor the need to have them .. but it was my opinion that these unfortunate inventions were supposed to be destined for your friends (+sisters) to read. So I can't understand this: why does anybody else in the world -- care -- about what that guy uses/doesn't use? What makes him so important / such a(n) hero.
Last edited by string (2008-12-16 21:11:02)

Beginner's Guide, Eufi-GRUB

I was gonna improve the Beginner's Guide but realized that the GRUB section of UEFI motherboards has been removed. I've been lurking around forums and as far as I can tell that the most problems was because of insufficient optioning of grub-install commands. I did started using arch and also linux back in this month and the main grub page was all I needed while, beginner's guide only needed and option for root device which was noted in main grub page.
If that was the case, grub is easy and other distro users are familiar with it.
P.S.: I didn't know how to connect about it, If I'm posting anyway wrong please criticize.
Last edited by Gulver (2013-06-24 07:27:00)

The trouble is, the Beginners' Guide as it stands is not only misleading but outright wrong.
In the section on booting UEFI, it states:
For UEFI systems, two options are available. Choose one as per your convenience.
Boot the Linux kernel directly using EFISTUB.
gummiboot is a simple bootloader, useful if you are dual booting.
And then it explains how to set up direct loading using efibootmgr or gummiboot. Not only is there no mention of rEFInd, there is also no mention that grub can also boot in EFI mode. This is especially problematic given that the "two options" will not work on some hardware given the current issues with the EFISTUB loader.
While I agree that this page should cover only the basics and link to more in depth information, this hardly counts as giving the user a sense of the available options. There are links to grub on this page but only in the context of BIOS booting.
Last time I looked, the page did mention grub in EFI mode and covered rEFInd. Now it just looks like you are screwed if neither a EFI menu entry nor gummiboot works for you.
EDIT: It also claims that the ESP must be mounted at /boot. This is just false. It is true only for gummiboot and not even for the other option mentioned on this page.
Last edited by cfr (2013-07-07 22:32:50)

[SOLVED] [Wiki] Beginner's Guide suggestion

I want to make a suggestion to improve the Beginner's Guide in the ArchWiki.
I just installed Arch Linux reading this guide and the only thing that wasn't clear to me is when I needed to select packages from a group. Same problem of this guy: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118413
I gladly would accepted a little explanation on which kind of syntax to use to include/exclude packages.
Last edited by davcri (2015-04-30 06:43:10)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=371421
n.b the Installation guide omits "-i"; in that case, there is indeed no selection.
https://github.com/falconindy/arch-inst … rap.in#L84
Last edited by Alad (2015-04-29 11:58:54)

Efibootmgr's entries crash instantly - mistake in Beginner's Guide?

Hi,
after installing Arch on my Laptop (first time using the non-aif method - I much prefer it, thanks guys!) I had some problems with the entries created by efibootmgr, i.e. them crashing instantly on me (screen would turn black, then return to the UEFI boot menu). After some experimentation it turned out that using single '\' (as per "UEFI Bootloaders"-page) instead of double '\\' (as per Beginner's Guide) in the efibootmgr-command fixes this issue. Is this something others experience as well or is it unique to my setup (or just a problem between keyboard and chair)?
I'm on a Lenovo X121e, using UEFI/GPT with a 512MB FAT16 EFI partition (FAT32 has the same problem). Installation as per Beginner's Guide, except for the single backslashes.
Now, to OT my own topic: Additionally, rEFInd seems to misparse refind_linux.conf, because the submenus are empty (not even "Return to main" or similar) although I created multiple boot options. Also, OS descriptions are weird ("Boot EFI\arch\vmlinuz-arch.efi from". Aren't those supposed to be "... from <somewhere>"?).

Slightly off topic but may i ask what changed and double \ is not required anymore? Last time i had to create a boot entry i did it with double \
# echo "root=/dev/sdaX ro rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap initrd=\EFI\\arch\initramfs-arch.img" | iconv -f ascii -t ucs2 | efibootmgr -c -g -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L "Archlinux (EFISTUB)" -l "\EFI\arch\vmlinuz-arch.efi" -@ -
Also is the \\ correct in the initrd sections (this is from uefi bootloaders)

Not familiar with wiki etiquette, Beginner's Guide needs to be changed

Hello everyone,
I am an Arch newbie and did my first Arch installation successfully last night.
During the installation, a problem occured in chapter Configure the network of the Beginner's Guide. When executing
# systemctl start dhcpcd
the system refuses to do it, it complains it is in a chrooted environment and ignores the command. Consequently, I didn't have an internet connection after the reboot, but executing this piece of code again in my "real" system quickly solved the problem.
Since Arch is a community effort and I'd like to give back, even if it's just small things as a newbie, I'd like to help improve the Wiki, but I am not sure about its etiquette after going through the Help:Editing as it has a rather technical nature, but not the policies.
Is it ok for me to make direct editions to the Beginner's Guide?
If yes, should I just add a note along the lines "repeat this command in case you get the error..."? Or what do you suggest to have a streamlined style of writing?
Thanks for any feedback.

parcival wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am an Arch newbie and did my first Arch installation successfully last night.
During the installation, a problem occured in chapter Configure the network of the Beginner's Guide. When executing
# systemctl start dhcpcd
the system refuses to do it, it complains it is in a chrooted environment and ignores the command. Consequently, I didn't have an internet connection after the reboot, but executing this piece of code again in my "real" system quickly solved the problem.
Since Arch is a community effort and I'd like to give back, even if it's just small things as a newbie, I'd like to help improve the Wiki, but I am not sure about its etiquette after going through the Help:Editing as it has a rather technical nature, but not the policies.
Is it ok for me to make direct editions to the Beginner's Guide?
If yes, should I just add a note along the lines "repeat this command in case you get the error..."? Or what do you suggest to have a streamlined style of writing?
Thanks for any feedback.
I am no expert, but in order to install arch, u need an internet connection already before the install process. And after the chroot, that connection will not change; the "systemctl start dhcpcd command" therefore is in my opinion not necessary.
It makes sense to run "systemctl enable dhcpcd" after the chroot to start the internet connection during the next reboot. (That's probably also what u want to do; else u need to run the start command everytime u reboot your system)
PS: Welcome to the "Arch Family"
Last edited by tumas (2013-02-28 10:22:08)

Incomplete Install After Following Beginner's Guide [solved]

If you look at my join date, I've been here longer than most (absolutely not a claim to being a guru or anything, in fact in many ways, I'm still a n00b) , but this latest install was... interesting, to say the least. (wel, it's still ongoing)
cd image: 2014 10.1
I used the beginner's guide because there have been significant changes to the install process in recent years. Everything was going well until I rebooted, and there were no entries in grub. After thinking about it a bit, I wondered if there were no entries because mkgrub-config (I automatically generate grub.config) couldn't find a kernel. So I booted back into the install media, chrooted into my new install, and lo and behold, there was not kernel installed (yes I did use pacstrap to install both base and base-devel and used the "all" option)
This might not be a problem with pacstrap, or with the beginner's guide, but with the way that these meta packages are arranged, I don't know.
So I installed a kernel, generated grub again, and rebooted, to get the old "you're on your own, pal" message, because init wasn't found. So, I rebooted back to the livecd , installed sysv-compat, and full of optimism "this is finally over with!" booted back into my new install. Still no good! For some as yet unknown reason, I can't use pacman to download packages. (Failed retrieving error) I know that I setup my network during during the install process, so my first instinct is to ping my router. No good! Ping isn't installed either!
I know that there are other steps I can take to find out what my network problem is, (if that's what it is), but I think that something has gone wrong if ping isn't installed during the install process, let alone the kernel. And isn't sysv-init unnecessary these days? I can probably solve these, and as yet unknown problems that will almost certainly arrive when I fix those, but I am running out of time, so I'm writing this post instead. Did I miss something? Is it just me? Or is the install process broken?
Last edited by Convergence (2014-10-16 23:33:06)

Trilby wrote:Everything you describe sounds like symptoms of partitions not being properly mounted. How is your drive partitioned? What is in your fstab?
Do you mean how were the drives mounted during install, or during boot? Both?
Thanks for responding!
My drive setup is kind of confusing, but /dev/sda1 is / and /dev/sdc1 is /home. I don't use a separate /boot partition. During install, I verified that I was mounting the correct partions/drives before using 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt /bin/bash' and used a similar command to mount /home inside of the already mounted /. During the install process, I used 'genfstab -L >> /etc/fstab', (this command was new to me) or something like it. I verified that the generated fstab looked sane to me (that the boot order was correct, it used the proper labels).
Now, in my new install, "df" shows that /dev/sda1 is root (as it should be), and that sdc1 is /home (also as it should be).
mtab says (among other things) "/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode620,ptmxmode=000 0 0" (there may be a typo because I'm typing this on my wife's laptop) the options listed for sdc1 are /hom ext4 rw,relatime,data-=ordered 0 0
My fstab entries look something like this: LABEL=rooty / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
My directory tree seems to be in order, /bin has binaries in it, /home has all my old files in it.
Does that answer your question?

[SOLVED] Error with Nvidia Drivers (following the Beginner's Guide)

I followed the beginner's installation guide and everything worked fine all the way up untill updating the kernel module dependencies using the "depmod -a" command..
First I created the "xorg.conf" file with the "nvidia-xconfig" command and it said:
Make sure all instances of DRI are commented out:
# Load "dri"
However, there are no instances of "dri" in my xorg.conf file, so i skipped this step and moved on.
Next it said:
Double check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make sure your default depth, horizontal sync, vertical refresh, and resolutions are acceptable.
But I don't know what they should be set to, so I skipped this and moved on again.
This is where everything fails:
The next step is to use the following command to update the kernel module dependencies for the nVidia drivers.
depmod -a
But when i do that, it fails.
Anyone know possibly why or has had this issue?
Last edited by trusktr (2010-02-19 07:22:32)

PirateJonno wrote:um, I don't think you can just 'do' a kernel update, you have to wait for a new one to come out first
You can run any kernel version you wish on Arch, if you compile yourself, of course.
trustktr wrote:Hmmmm, yeah, that is a good question: When to run depmod -a?
When you first install the proprietary drivers. That's it, unless you will be maintaining a custom kernel system or something. In fact, the proprietary drivers might even run the depmod script themselves, I don't know, since it is a black box binary. Makes sense, but someone else would need to answer that.
EDIT: Also wanted to add that many shell commands throw no output whatsoever upon successful completion. Therefore, the absence of error output can be interpreted as no error. Just FYI.
Last edited by Misfit138 (2010-02-21 02:58:04)

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