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)

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