blind-arch findings

[Linux for blind general discussion]

How can you tell, for a given drive, whether it is sata or nvme? I just 
listened to the youtube walk-through, and may want to try this on bare 
metal.



Thanks,



Dave  H.




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On 8/31/21 5:32 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Also, by default it uses the lts kirnel and not the latest kernel.  I 
> don't think there is a way to fix this.  I think there should be a way 
> to chuse which kernel you want, but either way iIt I think it is great 
> for soomeone whoo is getting started, but you can get around this 
> drive size problem by manually creatting your partitions if you know 
> what you are doing, but I think you should bwe able to just use the 
> remaining space by default.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> It can't do an install for a command line so it is necessary to choose a
>> desktop.
>> Several warnings get thrown by the script but the script continues to
>> work.
>> I think if I do this again and pick a desktop the install will work
>> completely.
>> Partitions are made small sizes and this is on a disk with 240G of 
>> space.
>> Maybe that could be improved so more of the disk gets used by 
>> partitions.
>> No option to create and use a swap file rather than a swap partition is
>> available yet.
>> The script could probably install budgie as a desktop choice if worked.
>> When I installed stuff I put xorg on the system along with fonts and 
>> maybe
>> if I had left desktop and xorg off this might have come up in command 
>> line
>> mode.  I'll check that out time permitting.
>>
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