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Been an Ubuntu fan for over three years, but have always tried out the other distros. Until now I was not ready to try out Arch, it looked to geeky and to difficult, but Ubuntu/Xubuntu was starting to get to bulky and bloated, and I had started to lean towards lightweight installations, and console programs as a resource.

So Arch it had to be. I downloaded the latest release for hard drive installation, the core version from here, created a spare partition on my hard drive and set to..

I am not going to go through all the installation and configuration, just those points that I had to work at. For full details read and follow the Arch Beginners Guide. (more…)