arch - Nwgat

Easily Install Arch Linux on your Cubieboard2

here is a simple guide, have fun Gparted make two partitions Ext4 with maximum size (first partition) Fat16 with 16MB size (secound partiiton) Install arch wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edwardoid/cubieboard-arch-installer/master/install_arch_linux_-_cubieboard2.sh chmod +x install_arch_linux_-_cubieboard2.sh && ./install_

ubuntu

Migrating your arch linux EFI edition

pretty simple, works with windows 8.x, ubuntu 13.10 and Arch Clone the partition dd if=/dev/source of=/dev/dest bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror,sync change source to source drive and dest to destination drive Install grub2 efi boot manager boot into a live cd (uefi mode)

arch

gettings arch on a cubieboard is not too hard

but getting video onto the display is another thing i need to figure that out, anyhow in the meanwhile i did update edwardoid's exellent arch installer for cubieboard2 edward's guide is here and a stumble upon some guide on howto install bootloaders and such for other distros than arch over

ubuntu

Getting UEFI to play nice

i had a issue with uefi and grub2 today, found out a realy simple solution boot into a live cd (uefi mode) mount /dev/sda1 /boot grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/ --bootloader-id=grub --recheck --debug grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg found some of the info @ slackware docs

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Linux Cheatsheet

made this list of my most used linux commands Arch Packages Install = pacman -S Search = pacman -Ss Remove = pacman -R Build tools = pacman -S base-devel Ubuntu packages Install apt-get Search apt-cache search Remove apt-get Build tools = apt-get install build-essentials autoconf automake make Raspbian configure raspberry rasp-config update firmware rpi-update Screen