[arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

[Michel Di Croci]

Hello!

I installed arch linux completely on a usb key. I had to tweak the installer
since he didn't view the /dev/sda disk as a hard drive disk but that was the
only modification I had to do in the code. For the rest, it is working A1. A
bit slow to be honest when there's a lot of intensive HD transactions. I
know that larch exists and I've tried it before.

The good thing on this way of doing is that I have real partitions that are
R/W on it. But since it's not loaded or RO like larch it is a lot slower
when installing stuff. But at least, it was a perfect test for me and I'm
pretty happy to be able to use my job's laptop as my personal one by using
only a usb key.

I got a 2 gig usb key and I think it's a bit too short for gnome (the one
I'm used to). I will surely go to xfce-4 or openbox (not decided yet)
because, I've completed a normal install and I'm already at 1.3 gig on a
total of 1.5 for the root partition.

That's all guys! :)

Great work.
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