Puppi Arch: PuppyLinux

This is an old revision of PuppiArch made by CrustyLobster on 2012-05-25 14:27:13.

Puppification of Arch Linux for Raspberry Pi - JWM, Rox, Geany and mtpaint for Puppi using Arch binaries

How do I get Puppi Arch?

You don't. Not yet. You make it! You customise it!

Your Puppy, your choices! It is the Arch way. It is Puppy Power.

Later we will have a ready made real PuppySchoolRaspberryPi Puppi Arch

So what is this exactly?

This is Arch Linux with Puppy small efficient programs added . . .

Get me started!

OK - you got it!

Step 1 download and install the Arch image file for Raspberry Pi on a SD card

With Puppy

In Puppy Slacko and most modern Puppys click on the downloaded Arch zip

It will expand

Move to the directory where the unzipped image is, open a console by

right clicking and select new terminal. Type

	# dd bs=1M if=archlinuxarm-27-03-2012.img of=/dev/sdc

The part archlinuxarm-27-03-2012.img is the image and if you have a later image

replace with the updated image name

Other methods Other distros and Windows

Step 2 run 'Arch'

boot up

password root

You are now at the Arch command line

Step 3 Update 'Arch'

Arch is a rolling release - constantly updated.

This is the update command which can take a while - took about 40 minutes on broadband

Once installed you are in Arch command line, you can update with

pacman -Syu

Step 4 install JWM Window Manager

pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev jwm

Step 5 start JWM Window Manager

xinit /usr/bin/jwm

Step 6 add Puppy programs

Open the terminal

pacman -S rox geany mtpaint netsurf

More to follow . . .

PuppyLinux : PuppiArch