Parted Magic based on Arch?

Parted Magic has been a hand made mess created almost entirely by myself over the past 4 years. I'm looking into possibly basing Parted Magic 5.0 on Archlinux so it has real package management.
Can anybody give me some pointers on what would be the best way to get started.? I would like to keep Parted Magic under 100MB if possible.

zenlord wrote:I'd say: get in touch with dieter@be about AIF - the arch installer framework. It is now the default way of installing archlinux and I thought one could make 'profiles' or defaults easily.
The Parted Magic 4.x series should be valid for older i586 computers until the day they go in the trash. The number of people still using i586 computers is getting pretty small. Users get pissed off at me all the time, so I'm used to it.
Archlinux is like Slackware with dependency checking. I wish I would have used it sooner.

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I don't know, but I doubt it can be done using Disk Utility. I suggest you consult the user manual for it or see if there is a Reset option in the onscreen menues. If you don't have a manual, then you will find one at http://support.apple.com/manuals.

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FaunOS: New USB Key Distro Based on Arch

Hi Everyone,
FaunOS (http://www.faunos.com) is a new live USB distribution based on Arch Linux.
With over 500 packages, FaunOS fits on a 1G USB key with an additional 100Megs for user storage.
FaunOS is a work in progress so I'd appreciate your feedback.
Thanks,
Raymano

lilsirecho wrote:
Downloaded faunOS in 2 hours 45 mins...
Performed the .img install to 1GB flash in 3minutes 10.7 seconds.
Attempted boot...received "boot error" message at boot time.
Examined contents of 1GB flash.......appears to be Larch related 856.1MB size reported....eleven elements including memtest.
Bkg.jpg is a faun......
Items included...base.sqf,bkgd.jpg , etc,sqf,larch.img, idlinux.sys, memtest,overlay.sqf,syslinux.cfg,system.sqf,vesamenu.c32, vmlinuz
Qtparted reports two partitions, partition 2 is 133.44MB (hidden)...Partition 1 is reported as active and identified as fat32 (I think it is reported incorrectly as fat 32 because my Larch device also says fat32 but it is fat16).
End of message....
Raymond
Thanks. Unfortunately the image you have downloaded is the older one which had the multiple partitions that was causing the boot error. If you download the latest one, faunos01d.img (http://www.faunos.com/download.php?f=faunos01d.img), the problem should be fixed.
Thanks for baring with me and trying this out.

NAS server based on Arch [Solved]

What is the mileage in running Arch as a NAS server? have tried FreeNAS but it does not like my new hardware
Openfiler sounds good but I have not tried it yet...
Would there be any mileage in creating an ArchNAS? if so would anyone be interested in using it?
MrG

Mr Green wrote:Do you use a web based control panel in the same way as FreeNAS does or just ssh in to do your thing ?
Option b) cuz I'm a nerd.

Underground Desktop based on Arch!

Check this http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03064#0 out guys & gals.

Repost:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=16667

Btrfs Arch-based rescue images

From linux-btrfs mailing list today :
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fi … btrfs/3150
Hello everyone,
As Linus discovered, the new btrfs disk format in 2.6.31-git can be
problematic if your FS gets forward rolled to the new format and you end
up bisecting back to the old code.
It would also be nice to have a way to run btrfsck on a root filesystem
and do other assorted tasks. So, I'm making live boot usb images for
both x86 and x86-64.
They should have enough to get your filesystems mounted and they also
include git, gcc, make and enough to compile the kernel. These are
based on the Arch 2.6.30 distro with just the btrfs newformat code
added.
I've got the 32 bit image uploaded, and I'll queue up 64 bit overnight.
If anyone is feeling brave, just dd the image onto a usb stick and
rescue boot away.
They work on both of my test boxes, but a little extra testing would be
nice.
Edit :
Additional link http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Rescue_me
Last edited by Nezmer (2009-06-16 21:01:33)

sekenre wrote:
I've just found this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=18424
An arch based bootdisk that's only 30MB? I've got a way to go!
It says "Many utils are supplied by busybox" so I'd call it loosely based on Arch.

My thoughts (and yours too!) about Arch (I'm in love already!)

Hello all! I suppose I would be called a newbie to Arch, but certainly not to Linux. I've been running Gentoo for five months. If I were running, say, Ubuntu for five months, I would probably still be considered a newbie, but five months of Gentoo has made me pretty proficient at Linux.
I (if you haven't guessed yet) am a Gentoo user , and it seems like there are a lot of Gentoo users who go to Arch. That's how I heard about it, through the Gentoo forums. I am currently looking for backups in case Gentoo comes crashing to the ground. I was perfectly content in my little bubble of happy compiling until I learned about the unrest inside of the Gentoo community. I never realized that things were in such bad shape... like a downward spiral. The result cannot be good. I feel like I'm on a sinking ship and am praying for my life here. I've seen a lot of threads at the forums lately like "If Drobbins fork Gentoo, will you follow him?" and "Will you stay with Gentoo if the Foundation is handed over to a 3rd party?" I find these a little unsettling! I understand that the Foundation is a terrible state right now, and the founder's attempt to get it back has failed, so now I don't things are going to head up. So I've started to face facts, that I better have some backup plans so that I'm not starting over from square 1 when this all burns to the ground (hopefully if, not when, because I like Gentoo and really don't want to have to give it up). Now I admit that I don't like EVERYTHING about Gentoo, but I like almost everything, and Arch seems to be like Gentoo in many respects.
Some of my personal desires in a distro:
1.Bleeding edge with rolling updates (and thus no need to ever reinstall the distribution)
2. A large repository for the package manager
3. Not a newbie distro... a distro for those who like the command line and to do things themselves
4. Good community
5. Customizable
6. The ability to choose between a stable and unstable package on a per-package basis
7. Install from source
Arch seems to satisfy 1,3, 4, and 5 correct? And pretty well satisfies 2, though I can see its package manager is not as big as Gentoo (though bigger than like Slackware).
I guess for the most part it doesn't satisfy 6 and 7 though, right? I realize that AUR is source-based, but on the whole, Arch is binary, so I'm referring to the overall tendency of the distribution.
Is there the ability to choose between stable and unstable packages though, to be as bleeding-edge as possible? (I'm thinking no but thought I'd ask)
Many other distributions such as Ubuntu probably wouldn't meet my needs at all. They seem to have a great repository and community, but I just don't want a GUI-based distro. The truth is, I want to feel like my computer needs me. It's my baby. XDDDD Okay, that's pretty sad, especially because it's a Pentium II (I can't WAIT to get my new laptop!!!!!!!!!!!), but I appreciate my Gentoo box way more than our Windows box upstairs, a lot of that having to do with the work I had to put into it to get it working correctly, and all that I had to learn. It makes me appreciate it a lot more, and it makes me a lot better at solving problems. (If it ain't broken, why not break it so you can fix it? XD)I don't want a distro that does everything for me; I won't feel needed anymore. Plus, I'm addicted to the command line. I have a window manager, sure (Thunar with Xfce), but I mostly still use the command line to view my files. Sometimes I don't even start up X (I never start it up by default) and am just as efficient as when I have it open. I insist on knowing how to do everything manually... when I wanted to make keyboard shortcuts for X, I chose to use xbindkeys rather than use the GUI with Xfce, so I could do it manually and still have it working if I ever switched desktop managers. I manually edit pretty much ALL my config files and, like I said, I am just as efficient without the GUI as I am with it. I can't go five minutes in GUI without having a virtual terminal open. So I think, in these respects, Arch would meed my needs quite well, just as Gentoo does now. I have deiced to try out Arch now anyway, regardless of the state of Gentoo, because you know, i might just like Arch better. I know a lot of Gentoo users have said they've gone to Arch. I'm trying to get my friend Evan to let me use his 8 gb hdd to try it on, because my current 6 gig drive for Gentoo is like... 99 percent full (I swear, I'm not kidding, I have 100 mg left, I REALLY have to prune XD), so once I get it, I'm going to install Arch (after unhooking my /home hard drive because I only have two slots for hard drives, and they're both already filled! I will probably end up moving the /home directory onto that 8 gig drive anyway. I realize it's hard to share things between distros, but I will at least be able to have a place to put files for both distros in the same place and would probably end up symlinking some same location to my desktop for both distros
Okay, now I'm just ranting. Back to point! I'm definitely going to try out Arch, and so far I like what I see. I even recommended it to a friend who is also thinking of leaving Gentoo (for Ubuntu, so he can support his amd64 processor). I pointed out Arch64 and he's considering it. I don't think he'd like Ubuntu any more than I. He originally used Slack and only switched to Gentoo because Slack really doesn't have a good package manager. I think he'd like Arch as well.
I've also done research on other distributions someone like me might like (especially coming from Gentoo).
This is my current list:
Arch Linux
Frugalware (based on Arch, right?)
Zen Walk
Vector Linux
CRUX (I'm leaning away from this one, as of now)
Lunar
Source Mage
Sorcerer
FreeBSD (but I've decided not to go with FreeBSD, as much as I like installing from source, because their philosophy of stability over currentness (like not having flash 9 because it's not "stable") just doesn't fly with me.. Linux is better for me, I think)
LFS.. okay, not really, but if I ever have a weekend when I'm REALLY bored.........
I've used Slack before but I would prefer to have a package manager, so I'm steering away from that direction, as much as I liked Slack.
Have I missed any other distros people in this sort of mindset like us might like? ^_^
My primary focus right now is Arch, and it's definitely my first preference as far as switching goes.
I think my biggest problem with Arch is that I REALLY like to compile everything from source (or at least, have Portage do it for me :-p), so I"d miss that. Especially USE flags. However, Source Mge/Lunar/Sorcerer don't sound as good as Arch, and FreeBSD just... isn't my thing. Their package manger seems great, it's their overall philosophy I disagree with.
This post really isn't asking for help with anything, but isn't that fine? This is just the Arch Linux General Forums, right? I just wanna talk about Arch as compared to other distros. I've wiki-ed it some, but I just think it's a fun thing to discuss.
So what things do you guys like better about Arch, and what things do you like better about Gentoo, or maybe about some other good distros?
I can't wait to try out Arch; I'm so excited! No Xubuntu for me! ^___________^ (Gnome and ESPECIALLY KDE would lag far too much for this computer)
-Megan M-

Well, I technically have 14 gigs... I have the 6 gig and a 4 gig which has /usr/portage (the portage tree probably takes up so much space it would outweigh any space saved through USE flags XD) and /var/tmp, since that can get huge while compiling and I don't have space on the 6 gig for the fluctuations in space... I had to install the binary for OpenOffice just because the temporary space required to compile it was bigger than the space I had on my hard drive!!!!and I actually have so little space left I am permanently using a ext3 formatted flash drive as my ~/Desktop (it's in my fstab and everything XD!) This gives me 4 extra gigs for all my stuff.
But anyway, just you people answering this thread so nicely confirms my feelings about the Arch community. I can easily see a thread like this simply being ignored on the Gentoo forums, or just merged with other threads. >.<
Actually, to be honest, most pakcages I am running unstable on Gentoo had to do with compile errors and such, or some feature not working correctly in the older version. The only ones that I just wanted to run unstable are.. lemme check my /etc/portage/package.keywords... Skype and Pidgin. And possibly Mplayer too, I was thinking of. Everything else was either because of problems or of it being in the Sunrise overlay (everything in there is masked as unstable since it's not an official part of the Portage tree).
How easy is it to get an older version of a package? I ask because I want Flash 9.0.48.0-r1, NOT 9.0.115.0. The newer one made my Firefox commit suicide and just close with an error when I viewed certain pages (youtube, etc. was fine, but even going to www.adobe.com made it crash *irony*). Gentoo forum users told me that then newer one was unmasked because of a security flaw found in the older one, but for me, I'd rather take my chances with the hole than have firefox crash every five minutes!!!! Is there any way to specify not to update a package either, for when you do a world update (or whatever they are called in Arch)? This also has to do with Flash... I'll give the newer one a try... maybe it was just a Gentoo issue... but if not, I'm DEFINITELY downgrading!
I like how easy it seems for Arch users to add packages to AUR so they are available to others... this is harder to do on Gentoo, despite that everything is source-based. It's most like there is a wall between the users and the developers that cannot be broken easily. This seems like a good way to let users have a little fun in the developer's world without *being* one.
One last question while I'm here.. my other friend who I sugested Arch to... I just want to confirm that Arch would support his CPU. He said to me:
"Oh, and my CPU arch is amd64 / x86-64 / emt64-t
thechnically its em64t since its an intel CPU but i am running a k8 optimized system (because I used to have a opteron)"
^_^
PS: Your forums may be smaller than those of Gentoo, but that is not necessarily a disadvantage. There is like a perfect size, I think. You can be too small OR too big... with bigger forums, it is so much easier for a thread to just get buried if no one can answer it right away, even though someone else might be able to but will never see it because it's already buried. This happened to me in the Ubuntu forums. I obviously do not run Ubuntu but posted a question there regarding mtpfs with a particular MP3 player, because I figured the forums were large enough that I'd get at least a few people with the same mp3 player and they could tell me their experiences with the program. HA! Instead, I just got 0 replies and it was simply buried. With forums, bigger isn't *always* better, imo.
PPS: What is your policy on patching the source code? For example, GTK+ recently deprecated a few features that TiLP(1 and 2) depends on. The source code will now not compile. I made a patch for it to fix it (I was supposed to submit that ebuild two days ago... grah, I really should do it tomorrow!), for otherwise it just gives errors. If it is TiLp2 you have in the repository, it is literally as simple as adding one line in the source code (and is the fix the developer himself recommended), but Gentoo did not even notice and kept the source code in the tree the same even though it would no longer compile! @_@ This kind of ticked me off, personally, which is why I have to submit that patch tomorrow! ha ha
Last edited by violagirl23 (2008-01-24 06:00:10)

Arch and Win7 cannot open an NTFS partition created by the other

This is almost certainly related to another post where I was struggling to create logical partitions from Windows. Basically, Linux and Minitool Partition Wizard agreed that there were no logical partitions, but the built-in Windows disk utility said there was. I ended up using fdisk from Arch install media, and Minitool and Arch now both saw the logical partitions (Windows shows a big extended partition of free space). I installed Arch just fine, can boot to it and win7... life is good.
Not so much. A key to my setup is having an encrypted partition to share data between OS's. I used TrueCrypt with great success on my former laptop and am now having great difficulty!
Some preliminary information:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1e6513b3
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 2101247 2099200 1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 2101248 172433407 170332160 81.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 172433408 390537215 218103808 104G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 390537216 500118191 109580976 52.3G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 390539264 391587839 1048576 512M 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 391589888 500118191 108528304 51.8G 83 Linux
I also went partition by partition to check Minitool's agreement on sectors (they match perfectly with the exception that it doesn't show the extended /dev/sda4 container). I triple checked the Minitool partition info properties as you can't copy and paste from it's window, and pasted the fdisk output to minimize errors. I'm showing a column for mini/Arch for both start/stop sectors, and just subtracted them to make sure I got 0. Appears to be perfect alignment:
| part | start (mini) | start (arch) | diff | | end (mini) | end (arch) | diff |
|------+--------------+--------------+------+---+------------+------------+------|
| sda1 | 2048 | 2048 | 0 | | 2101247 | 2101247 | 0 |
| sda2 | 2101248 | 2101248 | 0 | | 172433407 | 172433407 | 0 |
| sda3 | 172433408 | 172433408 | 0 | | 390537215 | 390537215 | 0 |
| sda4 | 390539264 | 390539264 | 0 | | 391587839 | 391587839 | 0 |
| sda5 | 391589888 | 391589888 | 0 | | 500118191 | 500118191 | 0 |
- Screenshot of how Minitool sees my disk
- Screenshot of how Windows disk utility sees my disk
I used TrueCrypt 7.1a on both OS's. I created a non-system encrypted partition using the GUI on Arch with the AES cipher/sha-512 hash, with filesystem as "none." Once created I did:
$ sudo cryptesetup --type tcrypt open /dev/sda3 vault
That worked fine, which I followed with:
$ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/mapper/vault
It initialized the device with zero's and then gave me the success/have a nice day message. Closed the volume and rebooted. When I tried to open the device from win7, I got "Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt volume." Hmmm. I guess I'll try in reverse. I duplicated the procedure exactly as above from win7, this time having TrueCrypt automatically format with NTFS. All succeeds and I can open the device. Reboot into Arch and I get the same message from TrueCrypt! If I try with cryptsetup, it's "No device header detected with this passphrase."
Next, I tried just doing NTFS with no encryption. From Arch:
$ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda3
All goes well and I can mount it. I boot into Windows and it's not even listed! I used Minitool to issue it a drive letter, at which point clicking that pops up a windows dialog box asking me if I want to format the disk. Format the partition with NTFS in Windows, reboot into Arch and I get:
[jwhendy@arch_zbook ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/scratch/
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda3': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda3' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
Doesn't matter if I add "-t ntfs" or "-t ntfs-3g." I get the same result.
Just to add a couple more oddities... when I created the NTFS partition in Arch, I also created a file called vault.tc as a TrueCrypt file-based encrypted container. My thinking was that the issue was with TrueCrypt full-partitions and that I could get around it with a plain partition containing an encrypted file. Reboot into windows and the partition isn't shown (as stated above). From Minitool, if I right click the partition and choose "Explore," it lists the partition contents and there is my vault.tc file. Windows thinks it's unformatted!
I noticed the option to backup/restore a TrueCrypt header, and gave a shot at backing up the working TrueCrypt setup on windows to a flash drive, booting to Arch, and then restoring the /dev/sda3 header from the flash drive file. Arch still couldn't open it.
Lastly, I noticed when I go to select a device to encrypt in TrueCrypt, my logical partitions aren't showing up (just like Windows only sees the end of the disk as free space). I just can't help but think something is tweaked in the partition table... basically:
- TrueCrypt sees what Windows sees
- Arch sees what Minitool sees
How could I go about diagnosing further or fixing the issue. This is driving me crazy!
I'd hate to do this given that I already setup my wm, configs, packages, etc... but my last resort attempt would be to wipe my logical partitions and see if I can at least get the win7 disk utility, minitool, arch, and truecrypt to like each other with respect to /dev/sda1-3... and then try to re-add the logicals afterward and re-install arch? I honestly don't know why this would be any different, but was just a thought. The issues from the other post seem to arise with logical partitions not being recognized the same between win/linux.
Or figure out how to just use primaries (like dedicated boot on a USB drive or something). Or fiddle with growing/shrinking windows to see if I can undo whatever is telling windows where/what things are? Really grasping at straws here.
Last edited by jwhendy (2015-06-10 23:32:22)

Hi Ramesh,
Please install the hotfix package and test the issue again:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817576/en-us
In addition, try uncheck the option “confirm open after download” per:
http://jritmeijer.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/some-files-can-harm-your-computer-if-the-file-information-looks-suspicious-or-you-do-not-fully-trust-the-source-do-not-open-the-file/
Regards,
Rebecca Tu
TechNet Community Support

[SOLVED] external USB HDD fails to install arch w/boot device ERROR

I've been working on installing arch linux via an external USB harddrive (specifically seagate free agent go 320GB) for 1 week now, and everytime I failed - until TODAY! thankfully I found this post, where user Dieter@be references this link, which displays BUG ID#17231 at the top titled "Can't boot LiveCDs 2009.08 (/dev/archiso doesn't show up)". the bug report states ::
I can't boot the LiveCDs 2009.08, neither netinstall nor core.
When it tries to access /dev/archiso it shows these messages:
:: Waiting for boot device ...
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/archiso ...
ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds ...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, logout when you are finished
ramfs$
reading further thru this bug report, I found a very insightful post by Heiko Baums (cyberpatrol) where he says the following, and I quote ::
Problem found. The link /dev/archiso wasn't created.
After
ramfs$ cd /dev
ramfs$ ln -s sr0 archiso
ramfs$ exit
it continued booting correctly.
And sg was also loaded after this. ;-)
as you see, the bug report was for the CD version, not the USB version - yet, my issue with the USB bootdisk was the same, (no matter which boot disk I tried = netinstall, core, .img, .iso, etc) meaning I got the EXACT same error = "ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds ..." ! well, I figured that I'd try one of the new fancy ISOs found @ http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ - specifically I use/used archlinux-2010.03.04-netinstall-x86_64.iso.
upon running Unetbootin from windows 7, and choose to install the ISO archlinux-2010.03.04-netinstall-x86_64.iso to my first partition on my USB harddrive (that first partition being FAT32, and had already been set as bootable previously), that completed successfully. I rebooted, and choose to boot from USB drive, the ISOlinux bootloader came up as normal, I choose DEFAULT and off it went.... sure enough, it errored out at the same place as listed in the bug report ::
:: Waiting for boot device ...
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/archiso ...
ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds ...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, logout when you are finished
ramfs$
this time though, I issued the following 2 commands ::
ln -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/archiso
exit
from there, EVERYTHING worked as it should!
to recap: the solution for me was create a symbolic link pointing /dev/archiso => to my partition which held the archlinux netinstall (which is where I told Unetbootin to install it to)! done and done. I felt this needed to be posted here, as I could not find this solution after MANY google searches, archlinux wiki searches, forum searches, etc. honestly, I think it would be prudent to have this tidbit of information added to the Install from USB stick archwiki page as a side note to those that may run into this issue.
this is not the FIRST time I have run into this problem with a USB install of archlinux, but this is the FIRST time I found a fix! thanks to all the great posts I reference here, without this information I dont think I would have been able to install archlinux on my new alienware m11x laptop.
-peace-
PS: no amount of rootdelay=XX nor pmedia=usb nor usbdelay=XX would work in my above attempts either.
Last edited by fnord0 (2010-03-12 04:54:26)

FAT16 here. Parted Magic sees my USB drive as sdd. I tried your way and surprise, surprise, it didn't work.
ln -sf /dev/sdd /dev/archiso
mount -t vfat /dev/archiso /bootmnt
mount : Invalid argument
I thought maybe you meant mount -f vfat /dev/archiso /bootmnt instead. I tried it too, it resulted in a kernel panic.
What else can I try besides installing from a IDE/SATA CD drive ? Because this issue is NOT solved. At least not for me. Wonder if "archlinux-2010.04.05-netinstall-i686.iso" from the here will solve it (really hope so).
SOLVED IT HERE (with yet another image): http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93645
Last edited by DSpider (2010-04-17 14:21:27)

My old computer can detect my USB when booting, but can't boot Parted

I have an USB with the Parted Magic Linux environment on it made with Unetbootin, which I tried to boot from other computers and works perfectly.
However, I have an old computer that can detect the USB in the boot menu (not only in the setup, also in the "Boot from here" menu), but can't boot from it (it just fails as if there wasn't anything bootable in the USB).
Unfortunately I don't have many more details right now, but does anyone know what is happening?

Sounds like a hardware issue.
I just fought with an old "server" box, with two Xeon iii chips in it. I KNEW that I had good CD's, and I was pretty certain that everything worked, but simply could not get Arch to boot up.
Finally booted to a diagnostics CD (don't ask which one - it's sorta illegal) and figured out that the CD drive was half-dead, with a lot of IO errors. Swapped the CD drive, and booted straight into Arch, got it all installed, and on the web.
Like Gusar says, try a different USB stick, then try a different USB port, or even swap out which USB plug you're using inside the box. Old machines do some strange things when some odd bit of hardware starts going flaky.
Last edited by Runaway1956 (2011-12-19 19:10:21)

Grub from arch installer fails to install

Using the pre-release core (i686) iso 2011.03.23 because the standard iso doesn't have the drivers to support my wireless device (though neither seems to have a driver for the wired interface, interestingly)
When at the 'Install Bootloader' step, it attempts to build the GRUB device map, then the arch installer quits, printing this at the bottom along with a console prompt:
ERROR: device_is_raid needs a blockdevice as $1 ( given)
Attempted to then run 'grub-install' from said console as follows:
[root@archiso ~]# grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/mnt
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
The file /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly/
[root@archiso ~]#
I found I had to pass the root-directory argument, as otherwise it couldn't find the stage1 file.
This hard disk is not using raid in any way, and for reference has a partition layout as follows
/dev/sda1 ntfs as PQSERVICE
/dev/sda2 ntfs as SYSTEM RESERVED
/dev/sda3 ntfs as Acer
/dev/sda4 extended partition containing:
/dev/sda5 ext3 as /
/dev/sda6 swap
The first three were already present on the disk with Windows 7, which incidentally continues to boot without issue. The only modification made was to shrink the Acer (aka C:\) partiton with GParted to make room for Arch.
Would rather use GRUB than other bootloaders unless unavoidable.
Thanks for any help offered.

Gremnon wrote:Out of habit, I always use the Beginners Guide, and always use GParted to prepare the partitions in advance. Bad blood between me and Parted Magic writes it out of the book entirely.
Will try again with a boot partition included, but I don't see why it would make any difference.
Any particular reason for ext3 over ext2 for /boot?
I don't see why it would make a difference either, but my install failed until I did it. Ext3 is more robust than Ext2, so if your system crashes there's a better chance of it not being hosed. I don't think it's a big deal either way, but I feel safer with Ext3.

Dynamically configure different DNS server based on user login.

I've got two young sons and I'm looking to reconfigure the 'Family' desktop to give the older son his own user account.
I've only recently started with Arch on my personal netbook so the family desktop is still running Ubuntu. That will likely change next clean install though.
I'd like to set the DNS to OpenDNS 'family shield' for his usage but allow full access via a different DNS server such as google DNS (for example) for parental use without filtering.
I'd like this to switch auto magically based on the user login credentials if possible.
I understand the limitations of DNS filtering but my oldest son has never even heard of DNS much less being able to figure out how to circumvent it yet. I'll deal with that in several years when it becomes an issue...
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

bergersau wrote:Thanks,
It looks like I might have to set up a squid proxy with Dan's Guardian. I was hoping for a simpler solution though.
Dan's Guardian is going to be a whole lot simpler than hacking the system resolver to use different servers for different users.
You MIGHT be able to hack something with iptables, the NAT table and a DNAT in conjunction with the 'owner' module... Something like:
Set your "unrestricted" DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf and a rule like below...
I'll assume you set the Google servers; 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and your son's usernames are 'brad' and 'tony'
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 8.8.8.8 -m owner --uid-owner brad -j dnat --to 208.67.222.222
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 8.8.4.4 -m owner --uid-owner brad -j dnat --to 208.67.220.220
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 8.8.8.8 -m owner --uid-owner tony -j dnat --to 208.67.222.222
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d 8.8.4.4 -m owner --uid-owner tony -j dnat --to 208.67.220.220
Untested and I don't guarantee that will work. You could tidy it up and bit using subchains etc, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.... And I'd still recommend a filtering proxy over the above....

How can I select and delete rows based on the value in one column?

I searched through the discussion board, and found a thread on deleting blank rows, but not sure how to modify it to work with my issue.
I have put together a rather complicated spreadsheet for designing control systems, it calculates parts needed based on check boxes selected in a second spreadsheet.
Since not all systems require all parts there are many rows that have a 0 quantity value, I would like to select these rows and delete them once I have gone through the design phase (checking off required features on a separate sheet).
I like the way the other thread I found will gather all the blank rows at the bottom without changing the order of the rows with data in them.
I don't understand exactly how the formula in the other thread works well enough to modify it to look for a certain column.
I hope I made myself clear enough here, to recap, I would like to sort the rows based on a zero value in one (quantity) column, move them (the zero quantity rows) to the bottom of the sheet, and then delete the rows with a zero quantity (I can delete them manually, but would like to automate the sorting part).
Thanks for any help anyone can provide here.
Danny

I apologize but, as far as I know, Numbers wasn't designed by Ian Flemming.
There is no "this column will be auto-destructing after two minutes"
You will have to use your fingers to delete it.
I wish to add a last comment :
if your boss has the bad habit to look over your shoulder, it's time to find an other one.
As I am really pig headed, it's what I did. I became my own boss so nobody looked over my shoulder.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 13 juillet 2011 20:30:25
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
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ITAR Management for Parts & Documents

All,
Am currently exploring possibilities in SAP and beyond to ensure that Part, Document, Drawing Markup are controlled using export control attributes i.e, that is combination of user citizenship and location to ensure ITAR compliance.
Had a look at few options, namely SAP - GTS and from SAP Partner NextLabs. Due to economic constraints, we may not pursue these options right away. Is there anything that is out-of-the-box or can modified to an extent in DMS/MM itself to fulfill these requirements. Customizing Classification attributes would come handy only to an extent. Restricting access to parts/documents based on user location/access point would be a challenge.
Would appreciate inputs if someone has experience/ worked on similar requirement.
Warm regards,
Pradeepkumar Haragoldavar

Hi Pradeep,
I think it is more expensive to build custom rather than using the partner solution from NextLabs.
neverthless to build something totally custom, you can use the PLM WEB UI add-on on top of ECC. this will bring ACM functionality. then do your customization on top. this is one probable solution i can think off.
hope this helps.
pramod

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