Comments on How to install Arch Linux with XFCE Desktop

at the start you claim off the bat pinging google will work, which is not the case if on wi-fi i suggest you add ' if on wi fi type wifi-menu' whilst booted into iso' regards

Dude whats with the attitude, the guy is trying to help , I read the same thing and assumed he was talking about a wired connection. Chill man especially when someone who doesn't owe you a dime is trying to help.

after few test and search

i'm pretty sure it's grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

and not mkconfig -o ...

Yes, JOduMonT. You are correct. This is my first attempt at using Arch but i have used other distros for awhile. It took me a few failed attempts until i realized grub-mkconfig was the correct command.

This guide was handy, along with a few other sources such as Arch's Wiki. I am now booted into xfce on Arch. Thank you.

Thank you but I prefer Cinnamone :)

You're welcome, now get lost.  This article is for Arch.

hey.

thankyou for your awsome article. i really needed it.

Thanks to your tutorial, I have setup Arch linux on my PC and I am feeling the stability already :)

"Now after creating the partitions successfully, we are going to create filesystem"

...what partitions?

grub-install error

grub-install:warning:File system ext2 doesnt support embedding

willnot proceed with blocklists

If you used unetbootin to create the bootable usb and are having problems, the answer here helped me make a bootable USB from another linux system. http://superuser.com/questions/591234/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-from-a-bootable-iso-with-the-command-line-on-linux

Like some of the previous comments it's grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg 

i don't find .xinitrc file!! it's missing in my arch

My condolences; you make absolutely no sense. Musn't be hard for you to get lost, eh? What was regarded as "Cinnamone" is actually a desktop environment and therefore may be installed on any UNIX system, including "Arch"; hell you can even install it on something as obscure as Darwin or such. Stop being a dick, and stop bumbling about nonsense.

Cant get .xinitrc to show up after install of xfce4

Pacman virtual box guest ?

I think this guide was make (screenshots) in virtual machine, then ignore that part !

when i install the xfce4 package all goes well all the way through until i try to do the ls -la command, as i don't have the necessary file .xinitrc. what am i  doing wrong?

for virtualbox need to also run 'pacman -S xorg virtualbox-guest-utils'

hi,

I tried to install archlinux. but I have some problems that I wrote at the bottom.

1.when I try to install alsa-utils ,I get an errror(warning: database file for 'custom' does not exit

error:failed to prepare transaction(could not find database))

2.when I try to install xorg pack,I get an error( warning: database file for 'custom' does not exit

error : target not found: xorg-init )

I tried a couple of command:

pacman -Sy

pacman -Syy

pacman -Syyu

but nothing changed.

@archie (basic linux partition)

B*/root (ext4)

/swap

/home (ext4)

simple and lightwieght post just like arch! 

well done 

No need to be a prick

check your docs grub-mkconfig ????

Keep It Simple.