I scrambled out of bed around 2:10, woken by Jason’s texts to ask whether the Arch Linux install party was still a go for today. 10 minutes later, Wei poked his head in my door to confirm this, and within 15 minutes we were all in his room, connected via ethernet cables and install disks in our laptops, ready to go.
Wei’s excited about this one =D
The installation took off in all its eager splendor, but before long Wei had to drop out due to a dying laptop charger. No power source = drained battery = no laptop for classes during the week. With a regretful sigh, he switched off his laptop and pulled out a box of maple frosted shredded wheat cereal to contemplatively munch on. Fail #1.
I had chosen my Compaq to install Arch on, but alas, I had gotten through partitioning and was planning to install packages… only no packages could be found. Instead, I received the error “Expected: at least 7 tokens for” though I had clearly defined my mirror and connection. After about 30 minutes of trying, I gave up in exasperation. Not only had I not been able to install Linux, I had wiped the partition that GRUB was on, so now nothing boots at all. Will have to fix this later will one of my other LiveCDs, haha. Fail #2.
Jason, however, had managed to get his installation complete. We waited eagerly as he rebooted his laptop, hoping to see the glory that was Arch Linux. We inched closer, holding our breaths, hoping that at least a small fraction of this would be successful..
… it wasn’t. Installation failed, and with that, this was the third strike and we were done. This was not a triumph.
failed installations make Jason cry
Truly a disaster; at least I was productive yesterday to make up for it. Although I gave up dinner in Chinatown and two apparently excellent movies, I managed to get part of 8.012 done along with some side projects and goals. The picture below was taken circa 8pm or so, when I decided that dinner would probably be a good thing.
that is grapefruit juice in the martini glass, just fyi
Haha, your blog post made everything better! Lots of fun to read.
wah,
I’m sorry that the installation party didn’t go so well, but it sounds like quite a nice time you guys had (getting together and trying this little project).
GG!