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Set up an sd card with arch linux. You should be logged in as root. Decided to make a sd card with arch linux using these instructions: SD Card Creation Replace sdX in the following instructions with the device name for the SD card as it appears on your computer. Start fdisk to partition the SD card: fdisk /dev/sdX At the fdisk prompt, delete old partitions and create a new one: Type o . This will clear out any partitions on the drive. Type p to list partitions. There should be no partitions left. Type n , then p for primary, 1 for the first partition on the drive, press ENTER to accept the default first sector, then type +100M for the last sector. Type t , then c to set the first partition to type W95 FAT32 (LBA). Type n , then p for primary, 2 for the second partition on the drive, and then press ENTER twice to accept the default first and last sector. Write the partition table and exit by typing w . Create and mount the FAT filesystem: mkfs...

Installing Arch Linux 1. Get Arch Linux. 2. Download Arch installation media. The primary forms are image files for CD or USB Key available on the Arch Linux website. Go to the Arch Linux website and select a version. If you are unsure which form to download, select the Core ISO appropriate to your processor architecture (e.g. i686 or x86) 3. Burn the image to CD using your preferred CD recording software or, in Windows XP, by right clicking on the .iso file and selecting “Copy Image to CD”. Alternately, if you downloaded the USB Key version, use the Bash command: dd if=path-to-iso of=/dev/sdX. [1] Alternatively you may use other software to image the USB drive. 4. Insert the prepared device into the computer you are installing Arch on and restart the computer. The computer should start up into a menu system similar to the one shown below. 5. Select “Boot Arch Live” and wait for the system to auto-detect your devices and start up. When it is finished, you will ...

  Arch Linux Netboot Live System The Arch Linux netboot environment allows booting Arch Linux live media directly over the network. It will boot into a menu where you can choose from a list of available mirrors. The image will be downloaded into memory. Requirements: A computer that connects to the internet via LAN and DHCP. If your ethernet NIC is not supported by iPXE, you must use your NIC's netboot capabilities. This is only possible if you select "Boot from network" in the BIOS and configure your DHCP server to load the PXE image provided below . In this case, the UNDI driver will be used for downloads until Linux is booted. The first stage of the download can be extremely slow. Test netboot with qemu Download an iPXE kernel image. ipxe.lkrn Graphical Menu ipxe_text.lkrn Text Menu Run qemu with the kernel image: qemu -m 1G -kernel ipxe.lkrn Boot with any Linux bootloader Down...

Installed arch linux on an i686 (aka pentium II). Installed linux many a time, but this is a new experience using arch as an os on a desktop. One thing that was different was to use the secure shell to remotely connect to the install machine. That way I could cut and paste commands as needed and save a lot of typing. There were some issues, that really were not issues. Had to use a search engine to rectify things I did not understand. Allegedly the live cd makes it easy to install. I had to do it the old fashion way. Having linux experience already made things easier. If I had been a novice, it would not have been installed.  Will probably take the several instruction sheets I used to make my own install procedure.  Kde seemed to work ok and the command line was very zippy. I am assuming you know how to download and burn the arch linux cd.  https://www.archlinux.org/download/  http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/iso/2014.01.05/ Index of /archl...

Against my brothers best wishes, I bought a Pogoplug. Not sure if it is the one I asked for, but I am not complaining. Spent less than twenty dollars for it (plus shipping). Noticed the price went back up after I bought mine. Up and down so it goes. What are the specs supposed to be: What’s in the box Pogoplug Power cable Ethernet cable Quick start guide Limited warranty Power requirements 100-240V, 50/60HZ Drive connection USB 2.0 (4 ports) Drive Formats NTFS, FAT32, Mac OS Extended Journaled and non-Journaled (HFS+), EXT-2/EXT-3 Network connection Gigabit Ethernet After getting the unit, I logged into their site and immediately registered the unit and enabled ssh so I could log into it remotely. It actually uses a minimal nix type environment, so I felt real at home tooling around in the directories. You have to log in as root since there are no user accounts per se.  The first thing i did was run ifconfig to get the mac address for setting it...