[Klug-general] Next Meeting: Saturday 7th June @ Canterbury LIbrary

[James Morris]

Re my "Install Arch over existing Linux without installation media"
talk, picked up one of those tiny tp-link wireless usb adaptors this
morning, and decided a test run would be a good idea.

first thing that needed doing was entering the date and time into
the laptop bios. secondly, fsck informed me it was checking the
filesystem as it hadn't been mounted for 842 days. discovered debian
lenny was the installed system.

so had to cheat a little here. with such an out of date system i
decided to just reinstall the latest debian stable over it, with a cd
of course, just a minimal system. then i had to git clone and compile a
kernel model for the wireless usb dongle from github. went surprisingly
smoothly.

then on commencing with the arch chroot (following instructions
not memory) discover that the arch base system won't as advertised be
installed into a 500mb system - the combined size of the downloaded
packages and their extracted contents exceeds 500mb (though I'm not
sure by how much). better to discover that now than later.

hopefully, if i give this a few practice runs i'll have something to
present and something more than the basic arch installation (ie
console shell) at the end of it.

cheers,
james.



On Wed, 21 May 2014 23:42:31 +0100
James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Yes laptop lacks built in WiFi Lan connection. Just looked online
> adaptors can be had quite cheaply, will look at picking one up in the
> morning. Thanks.
> 
> James.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:16:10 +0100
> Kevin Groves <kgroves at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think there will be wired. Do you mean the machine does not
> > have wifi built in? We could possibly mash something up. Will see
> > what bits I have.
> > 
> > Kev
> > 
> > On 20/05/14 23:17, jwmartnet . wrote:
> > > Yes will be able to demo it. Is there access to wired internet?
> > > Otherwise has anyone got a wifi dongle I can borrow?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > James.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 20 May 2014 21:15, Kevin Groves <kgroves at cix.co.uk> wrote:  
> > >> Sounds good. Will you demo it?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >>
> > >> Kev,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 20/05/14 20:46, jwmartnet . wrote:
> > >>
> > >> How about how to replace an existing Linux installation with arch
> > >> Linux without an install disc? But need net access and I have an
> > >> age old laptop (w/o WiFi) I'd like to try it on. Recently did it
> > >> to my parents PC and was very impressed with arch wiki.
> > >>
> > >> On 20 May 2014 19:30, "Kevin Groves" <kgroves at cix.co.uk> wrote:  
> > >>> So any more ideas for things people want to talk about?
> > >>>
> > >>> Kev,
>