[SOLVED] The Arch Linux Handbook/Wiki

Hello, everyone.
I am new to Arch Linux; to be honest, I have not installed it yet, but I intend to do so very soon.
I am a partially blind user, and I have used Ubuntu for nearly the past five years. I want to learn more about Linux, and I want to replace my Ubuntu installation with Arch Linux. I have been reading a lot about Arch over the past few weeks, and I just really love the whole philosophy behind it.
I have a question, however, concerning the arch Beginners' Guide/ArchWiki. I have found this documentation to be VERY helpful, but my good eye (I have vision in only one eye, and it is a bit limited) cannot stand up to heavy reading as it used to be able to. I have been searching online to see if either a text document or a PDF document exists which contains all of the information which is in the Beginners' Guide. So far, I have not found any results. I am sorry, though, as my search engine skills are not too good (I am learning). The reason I ask this is because I have a portable device which has a built-in text-to-speech engine which is capable of reading text files aloud to me. If I could obtain this information in text format, or in PDF format (as I could use the pdftotext command to generate a text copy), it would make things a lot more streamlined for me.
Is there something like this in existence?
I appreciate any help which you can provide. As I stated earlier, please forgive me if something like this does exist and I missed it while searching.
Please take care, and have a great evening.
Last edited by RKCole (2011-10-11 17:41:04)

You want just the Beginners' Guide? Here is it in a ready to print format: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … ntable=yes
It's html, so converting it to txt of pdf shouldn't be much of a problem.
There's also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … _the_blind but I'm not sure if you find it helpful.
Another way of accessing the wiki: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu … wiki-lite/
Last edited by karol (2011-10-11 02:03:10)

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[SOLVED] VirtualBox: Arch Linux host unable to reach guest over NA...

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Last edited by donniezazen (2012-07-24 22:49:01)

donniezazen wrote:Partition using cfdisk /, /home , /swap and /boot.
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mount /dev/sdax /mnt/home
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Error
ERROR: /mnt is not a mount point!
you should have stopped here and posted or tried to figure out what you did wrong.
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Last edited by 1lj4z1 (2012-04-05 07:25:53)

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...is not the most obvious thing. Couldn't/shouldn't there be a link on the main web page to the Arch Installation Guide, or at least to the docs page?
I've just tried Arch (0.7.2) for the first time, and am finding my way with it quite well so far - but just found it a little irritating to have to hunt around the web site for the installation guide from a 2nd machine (where it wasn't bookmarked yet) while I was installing Arch on another.

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I'm not sure what you mean. The Installation Guide is two clicks away from http://www.archlinux.org/
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Ok, now that I made a fuss about this, it's time to admit that I just didn't see that Documentation section on the home page - thanks for pointing it out - time for some sleep I guess :-)

[SOLVED] Last Arch Linux Problem (brightness @ boot)

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Last edited by tamikana (2010-09-12 06:56:36)

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