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Thanks abaumann, levi, deep42thoughts ! Well guys, after a few more hours struggling, I have had to make the "executive decision" to abandon this- at least the 32-bit project. My Pentium 4 system has been the 'museum' for many great packages, from Linux-Gamer for its great little games through many business and other pkgs like a mid-generation (free to me) AutoCad on XP, but I think it's time for me to drop maintaining LG- or a newer ArchLinux32 -for essentially 32-bit posterity. I may have gotten close to installing this but it probably makes more sense to just reduce this quad-boot system to a tri-boot. I just think if I am going to pursue another very different flavor (and manually intensive one) of Linux like Arch, then I may pursue it later with a full 64-bit, up-to-date rolling version on much better hardware.
Thanks again for your input- I just got "too many candles burning" all the time.
Al
Okay, thanks much for pointing me in the direction. I actually weeded through the above link "the upstream installation guide" (and all its associated links within to establish partitions, grub, network, ... along the way) and installed it. Now I would like to add a GUI however I found that the network wasn't set up other than for the minimal (127.0.1.1 for DHCP) which should work as it was working for the install... but it's not. So, then I went to check/edit hosts... a found I may have no editors -nano, vim, edit, vi are not installed- yet how can I pacman them when I have no network? I think there's a lot to be desired within the installation instructions and this is critical= esp for nooobs like me. Otherwise, grub boots fine into a text mode but.. then what? Is there another editor...?
Please advise. Thanks,
Al
Hello!
I would really like to find a simple, straightforward set of instructions for installing the newest ArchLinux32 (32-bit) version onto my 'supercharged' Pentium 4.
Ref. my PC spec's: Pentium 4 dual (533mhz) processor at 3.4Ghz, 4gb (533mhz) RAM, w/ a 120 SSD and PCIe nVIDIA GeForce GT730 video card. This runs my quad-boot system actually fairly fast (WinXP SP-3, DreamStudio, ZorinLite 15.1, and Linux-Gamer from 2011). These OSs are 32-bit, three are "blasts from the past", that I want to maintain for many lovely software packages, although I would really like to upgrade the Linux-Gamer to ArchLinux32 and install Steam for all same (and more) games. I am currently attempting to install ArchLinux32 on a separate 40GB SATA then, if successful and stable, just clone it over the old Linux-Gamer (LG) partition and hook up grub... (I had originally created the partition and forced an install of LG from its Live-only CD as there was no HD install...)
I downloaded and burnt to CD archlinux-2020.01.20-i686.iso, and I booted it and use "pacman -Syy" (hoping to install on a single 40GB SATA) and loaded the certificates for Pentium 4s, but then I am stuck. What next...? I have used many linux distros with GUIs and have my hands in terminal half of the time but I am not 'fluent' with these distros without some kind of GUI. Please can anyone point me to a complete A-Z toward getting a bootable HD, then lead me to choosing installation of one of the basic GUIs (I prefer KDE but, hey, at this point anything that works...)
I did get a little further than "pacman -Syy" but it just got messy each time. Once I get to try the update with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" it really runs into trouble. The update gets about 1/3 way through then 'craps out' w failing to retrieve files during the update phase... "expected download exceeded" or "Failed writing body ([filesize] != [filesize]" (yields multiple pages of these errors). Hey, there's plenty of disk space... and my hunch is it's running some kind of file sychronization checking existing files against new and it "trips up" (and where it shouldn't?). Idk- any ideas?
Note: I've tried all 3 ArchLinux version ISOs: 64-bit, "dual" (supplying both 64 & 32), and 32-bit just to see if something works. Yes, while my Pentium 4 can run 64-bit I am trying to maintain all 32-bit OSs on this quad-boot system.
Please advise re clear, concise ArchLinux32 installation instructions. Thanks,
Alice
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