Usually I can tell if a like a distro within 2mins of using it, call me judgmental but thats me. Well I am here today describing my experience with the Arch Linux distribution and I must say it was a unique one.

I deided to test it out using the latest STABLE release which was 2007.08-2. I started off creating my partitions with fdisk and then went to formating and choosing mount points, I choose to install all packages it was during the installation of these packages then I ran into my first of many problems. But first I wanted to see how well the partitioner including in the installer was compared to doing it manually with fisk (it is recommended to do it manually but then why even include a partitioner?). It failed miserably.

It gave me option to adjust size, I choose 48megs for my /boot, 128megs for swap and then came to the predicament of either having a / and no /home or having both. the partitioner didn’t tell me how much space I had left… so I ended up choosing to use rest for /.

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