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[FilledVoid]

Which mirror offers is good speeds for pacman.? I have the Israel server selected in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, but it gives inconsistent speeds.

Use the Rankmirror script. It is recommended that you move it from the default servers. Rearrange the servers based on the output of the above script. Also I have noticed the best speeds when updating during the morning.

[humanbeing]

first edit /etc/pacman.conf and make available unstable ,community repos

[gary4gar]

Use the Rankmirror script. It is recommended that you move it from the default servers. Rearrange the servers based on the output of the above script. Also I have noticed the best speeds when updating during the morning.

I don't understand why speeds are more in morning?

[FilledVoid]

I guess the time difference represents lesser traffic in the servers but I've seen a few people having the same experience. However note that I do get 50-80 kbps in the nights as well . When I meant fast speeds I meant like 100k + .

[shady_inc]

Use the Rankmirror script. It is recommended that you move it from the default servers. Rearrange the servers based on the output of the above script. Also I have noticed the best speeds when updating during the morning.

Too bad I have Night unlimited and not Morning unlimited. Anyway, will try the script before I download KDE 4.1 [hope it's in Arch package database ] tonight.
BTW, the rolling release of Arch is totally FTW.! It upgrades your Linux kernel too, unlike other distros in which you have to *gasp* recompile it.!! I'm lovin' it.!

[FilledVoid]

Too bad I have Night unlimited and not Morning unlimited. Anyway, will try the script before I download KDE 4.1 [hope it's in Arch package database ] tonight.

I am on Night Unlimited. The instructions and the link on how to install 4.1 is in this thread. Go to the previous page I have pasted the links.

BTW, the rolling release of Arch is totally FTW.! It upgrades your Linux kernel too, unlike other distros in which you have to *gasp* recompile it.!! I'm lovin' it.!

Hmmm . I thought Ubuntu used to do it itself . maybe I might have misunderstood what you meant.

[mehulved]

Hmmm . I thought Ubuntu used to do it itself . maybe I might have misunderstood what you meant.

Ubuntu isn't rolling release. I believe it can be made a rolling release, like debian, by swtiching to stable/unstable/testing release. You can do so in fedora too by using rawhide. Debain by using sid or stable/testing/unstable.

[FilledVoid]

Its not a rolling release but I thought the kernel upgrades were automatic. Which is why I had 4 entries to 4 different kernels in my grub?

[mehulved]

Well, all binary distros supply a pre-compiled kernel, nothing new in that. Just gentoo needs kernel to be compiled, but you have gen-kernel script for automatically building that too, if you prefer.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cautionary.png

[humanbeing]

the pity is gen-kernel script is the only option to generate a mkinitramfs for the kernel .although mkinitrd tool is there .while most other distros allows tools mkinitramfstools by default.

gentoo ...!

[Faun]

Just gentoo needs kernel to be compiled, but you have gen-kernel script for automatically building that too, if you prefer.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cautionary.png

nice way to ruin the weekend

[MetalheadGautham]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cautionary.png

Anyway, can someone tell me how to edit fstab or do something to automount all partitions ?

[Faun]

Anyway, can someone tell me how to edit fstab or do something to automount all partitions ?

for ntfs add

UUID=01C89604C0476880 /media/sda6 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

of course UUID should be your drive's and create a folder in media (here i created sda6 folder)

to find UUID use

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/

[MetalheadGautham]

^^it was the last line I was looking for. thanks. I did not know how to find uuid of a partition.

edit: how do I know which is which ? I want the damned details. I want to know whats the partition number - sda1, sda2, sda5, etc.

[Faun]

^^fdisk -l
???

[gary4gar]

internet is slow on arch.
i checked the FAQ, its says you have not set the hostname right.

secondly, why i have to set my wifi connection on every boot?

RC.conf
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhg42zjq_5gs4xtbdq

/etc/hosts
http://rafb.net/p/VqTnYX61.html

[gary4gar@moody ~]$ hostname
moody

[gary4gar@moody ~]$ hostname -f
localhost.localdomain

[mehulved]

Can't you search for a small thing? I pointed out to you where the problem is, what the problem is, and also told you to find about fqdn,
Read this http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html or http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178

[gary4gar]

Buddy, i am not used to reading RFCs
you are a freaking genious but i am just a average user trying to learn linux, which i think i have failed miserabliy:.

anyways, i am still searching the solution

[Pat]

Buddy, i am not used to reading RFCs
you are a freaking genious but i am just a average user trying to learn linux, which i think i have failed miserabliy:.

anyways, i am still searching the solution

Make sure that your hostname is correctly set in /etc/hosts i.e., that it matches the hostname in /etc/rc.conf.

What do you mean by setting up wifi on every boot ? how do you do that on every boot ?

[gary4gar]

I have checked it, its correcty set.
still my my net is slow.

regarding wifi,
on every boot i have set essid and other things. also the network demon delays the boot process for 10secs. after it says "timed out".

[Pat]

I have checked it, its correcty set.
still my my net is slow.

Are you sure the issue is related to hostname ?

regarding wifi,
on every boot i have set essid and other things. also the network demon delays the boot process for 10secs. after it says "timed out".

I had a similar issue. I just set the connection to use a random static IP. This happens because it looks to get an IP using dhcp and waits till either it gets one or times out. Set it to static to eliminate the 10 secs delay problem.

Regarding the main issue, I dont use wifi connection on my arch. However, have you tried using Network Manager instead of the default network daemon ?

Try if this helps:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager

[FilledVoid]

internet is slow on arch.
i checked the FAQ, its says you have not set the hostname right.

secondly, why i have to set my wifi connection on every boot?

If you have checked it then pastebin your hosts file and your rc.conf file.

[mehulved]

How about searching for things once in a while? A simple search for keyword "wireless" on the arch wiki returns - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless
And here's your answer http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...Fetc.2Frc.conf
It also gives you alternate suggestions.

[FilledVoid]

#<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost	moody

As said on IRC change this to the correct names and you should be good to go . Im posting this here so it might help someone else later.

[gary4gar]

thanks set it to
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 moody.localdomain localhost moody

[FilledVoid]

You are welcome . You can send me the support fees of $99.99 to my bank account .

[Pat]

You are welcome . You can send me the support fees of $99.99 to my bank account .

OMG! You looted him. I only charge $9.99

[mehulved]

Then I should definitely get $9999.99 for the amount of headaches I went through, including pointing it out.

[FilledVoid]

Ok Ill give you 10% of my charges

[mehulved]

OMG! You looted him. I only charge $9.99

But, your support isn't timely and it's too slow