Arch Linux on a 400 Mhz Pentium II! (feat. Minecraft) | WGEX

[@andreasbaumann6943]

First of all: thanks a bunch for trying Arch32 on a Pentium II, I have currently nothing older than a Pentium III without SSE and some AMD Duron to test it on. 🙂 Some comments: 8:00 Would love to know, what takes so long too. We just rebuild Arch32 from archiso from upstream. 8:40 Archinstall32 is alpha, might work, might not 13:40 GPG takes ages on old machines due to ever better crypto algorithms, which are proof of work, so to speak. If you ever tried to log in to a real 486 with a crypt instead md5 shadow entry, you can experience that too. :-) 18:35 Actually, you experienced the worst case, both signing keys expiring and no new ISO was out with the keys already fresh and updated on the ISO. 404 are possible if you have pacman databases not synched (or mirrors for that), pacman then loads from the old location 19:45 pacman-key --init and --refresh is only needed for Arch32 keys, but it is not mentioned anywhere :-) 21:30 Yes, that was exactly the case. archlinux32-keyring was stale and didn't contain the updated keys. 22:42 This is as upstream, two initrams are built using mkinitcpio, the really slow part is zstd, which assumes you have a 20 year old younger machine, so being only 20 times slower is actually a good thing. 25:30 ln -fs (for symbolic link), now you have a hard link (which is not bad and works) and timedatectl will probably overwrite that anyway 25:40 Well, install the editor of choice using pacstrap :-) 26:10 yes, same thing as on the ISOs, just do the "spiel" with keys again, becase it's not the same pacman keyring. installation is also possible with pacman --root=/mnt --config=/mnt/etc/pacman.conf nano from outside the chroot 28:30 grub-install i386 is merely meaning ix86. I remember vagely grub2 having trouble on i486 already (hence using an older syslinux for a real 486 is recommended). 30:10 upstream grub has 'silent' in /etc/grub/default, so you can change that and add any loglevel you like. On old machines this is a good idea, because you see what the thing is doing (and how slow actually systemd is). On new machines (especially with SSDs) this makes no sense and just slows down the boot process. 30:42 free invalid ptr on login (PAM systemd races), the only option is to uncomment sysetmd stuff from /etc/pam.d. You can comment out all lines with -*systemd in them and weird effects go away. This is something deep in some systemd modules on 32-bit going wrong. 31:30 There is automatic network on the ISO, but not for installation (pick networkd, netctl, systemd-network etc.). This is as upstream I think. 32:00 yes, we have to remove pam systemd modules from the ISO.. 33:00 maybe the umount was not unmounting /mnt correctly, when just rebooting? 37:30 again, crypto. it has to generate 3 (at least 3) sets of ssh host keys, so yeah. ssh-keygen is part of the first startup of the service (without any messages). Complain to upstream Arch.. :-) 38:00 sshd logins are slow, keys again. You can choose less secure and faster key algorithms in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but then eventually your SSH clients will refuse to talk to your ssh server. 40:00 pacman -Ss openjdk (searches for packages) 42:40 we follow strictly upstream, so if wget is not part of 'base' then yes, so it is. :-) 43:10 Java on a pentium II cool, that's fast. Adding memory would speed up things greatly.. 56:00 yeah, key management is one weak point of mine :-) I hate gpg with a passion..

[@David_Phantom]

Ah, the legend has found the video! Thanks for Arch32! -now to get arch for ppc-

[@GodRunna45]

sus?

[@_lun4r_]

unpin comment now

[@raineyjayy]

This is very cool commentary. I'm building a Pentium 2 Overdrive (Socket 8) system and I am thinking of trying Arch32 on it.

[@michaelfissel1357]

@@_lun4r_ How about... no??

[@feschber]

Pro Tip: If it says [Y/n], that means the capital 'Y' is the default and you only have to press Enter without typing 'y'. Similarly [y/N] means 'N' is the default option.

[@otto_ueue]

Dude, I thought you'd have to type it uppercase 💀 Thanks for saying that.

[@koduflower2000]

I just had this sort of prompt when I tried to install something on Arch Linux using Pacman.

[@BG101UK]

This is handy when using Pacman, but if you use Pamac (for AUR stuff etc.) it defaults to N which is slightly less convenient (for me anyway).

[@feschber]

@@BG101UK it's just a general thing with these cli tools that is not that obvious when you first see it

[@jpedrothejo]

@@BG101UK pacmac

[@AlexGFrank]

This channel has absolutely everything i love: cursed sysadmining, retro hardware, stupid anime jokes and insane amount of coziness, like talking IT shit with an old friend but with extra steps. I randomly stumbled upon this in incognito, while being up at 5am one day, waist deep in another late night research rabbit hole, and i'm extremely glad i did. This is absolutely a sub.

[@koduflower2000]

Yeah right. Even for me! I subbed to this channel, thinking I'd get something interesting to watch. And I got many. Absolutely many! 😁

[@xymaryai8283]

idk, they might be a dom uwu

[@Voidkitty_]

​@@xymaryai8283nah, everyone knows all femboys and transfems are subs

[@ChrisXPZ]

I'm alone on a Wednesday night watching someone else install an operating system.

[@accountid9681]

"if you don't have a rack like me, wanna see my progress? no, you'll have to pay for that" LMAOOOOOOO

[@David_Phantom]

In the fstab, you should change "realtime" to "noatime". That'll make it boot faster.

[@WindowsG]

>.> icic, noted

[@alhazred3555]

>>>/g/ has corrupted my mind

[@callyral]

but... why? what does this actually do

[@David_Phantom]

@@callyral "relatime" logs the access time (atime) of a file, while "noatime" doesn't. Less things to log means less overhead which means faster boot. Theoretically. No idea if it would actually be noticable.

[@GoldenAdhesive]

@@David_Phantom marginally better for your hdd though

[@mysterium364]

Old hardware + Linux troubleshooting content + Blahaj This is rad. Subbed.

[@VauxhaIIOpel]

this is literally a channel I’ve been looking for a while; old tech, a trans woman AND silly euphemisms and one-liners? amazing also that fucking drive cage is the pinnacle of convenience, why isn’t it in modern cases??

[@WindowsG]

Aaa im so glad you like the videos!~ ^w^ I mean.. modern server hotswap drives bays and caddies exist but they're nowhere near as epic feeling

[@andreas4137]

You have exactly the sense of humor that is near and dear to my heart. Enjoyed the heck out of this, instant sub.

[@XeonProductions]

I love that Dell case, its built like a tank, and it looks like it means business. I'm also getting some major Druaga1 vibes from this video.

[@cloudrippertech]

same

[@julioprado7676]

There's something so satisfying about mixing new and old hardware/software! Also I loved the video and the humour :)

[@WindowsG]

Glad you enjoyed it!~ ^w^

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

"this is the uwu senpai please install operating system for me nya command". New name confirmed. I will now use this forever. Also when you said "it's getting pounded, i wish that was me"... I felt that... me too.... me too...

[@thomwalks]

First time I used Linux I took my main machine because I thought I knew a lot about computers, until I realized i only knew a lot about Windows and not computers in general. Yeah, I didn't mess it up but I was utterly lost at how I was gonna install anything

[@gianni_schicchi]

I had an Intel P133 with an AMDK400 “Overdrive” cpu upgrade and a huge 64MB RAM. Was my first linux system on the original 133 mhz intel with Red Hat, bought on CD-ROM from Best Buy. 12 year old me managed to install it with Grub and not nuke our Windows 95 partition. Thank my grandpa teaching me about partitions on os/2. After the 400MHZ piggy back I daily drove, Gentoo and would constantly change global compiler flags and trying different kernels and optimisations as GCC was pumping out updates at that time. I use a mac now, but debian or similiar on raspberry pi’s and my NAS. Thank you for coming to my TEDx Talk.

[@frost_0556]

The effort you put into these videos is amazing, i thought you'd have waay more subs than 4k

[@WindowsG]

Ehe thanks!~ I mean.. i had 3k when this came out so i must be doing something right >w

[@TehPoopDood]

I am OBSESSED with that cpuinfo readout. Reading that this CPU is vulnerable to Meltdown made me cackle. The bit where you forgot to install networking is as painful as it always is when I do it. Awesome content. I loved every cursed second of this!

[@LeifEricsonYT]

This video has big Druaga1 vibes and I love that so much. I need more of that energy in tech videos. Honestly your content is so great!!

[@illegalcoding]

18:12 I think the reason this didn't work is just that your mirrorlist contained a mirror that was down. It said that a certain URL returned 404. It would also explain why it suddenly worked later, maybe it came back up?

[@koye4427]

Yup, I've had that happen to me. You can either generate a new mirrorlist in that case, or, if you are lazy, have a snack while you wait for the server to come back up

[@boneappletee6416]

​@@koye4427 snacks while installing Arch definitely help

[@TavishMcEwen]

Giving minecraft more memory than you actually have can reduce performance as the GC won't be as active and things will start getting put on the disk, which is as slow as you expect Swap should only be used as RAM if you *need* it, otherwise avoid

[@dannihijacked2508]

I also recommend an older version of jre like 8 and i'd love to see you running mc 1.8.8 even tho it's an old version it's still popular!!!

[@VioletRM]

i mean when you have this little, you kinda need it >,

[@kapm1001]

I loved everything about this video, keep doing this crazy stuff

[@ToxicAven]

Cutiesnoopie can't hide her cuteness behind a popfilter X3

[@Sugaryy_]

true and real :3

[@koduflower2000]

Wait a minute, was that a trans girl!?

[@Sugaryy_]

@@koduflower2000 yep, snoopie is trans :3

[@koduflower2000]

​​​@@Sugaryy_ okay, thanks. I just thought she was a guy, like seriously, I thought that was an innocent guy who likes Linux, and I just subscribed to this channel and took it for granted. 😯 Maybe it's not the first time I've met a trans girl on KZbin. I actually subscribed to TheLexiKitty because why not, she was a trans girl KZbinr, and it was pretty cool for me to actually have a trans girl channel on my subscribed channel list. Tbh, I really didn't know the first trans KZbinr I subscribed was actually this channel. 😯😯😯

[@Sugaryy_]

@@koduflower2000 she doesn't make it clear, but she has the transgender flag in her pfp and she/her pronouns on her discord server :3

[@EeveeEuphoria]

not even done watching this video but i can already tell this is my new favorite channel

[@raullanderos7827]

Aternos servers be like:

[@idk13212]

Bro ive had a aternos server and thats whats its like

[@nathantherandomguy1935]

11:31 I would agree. I have a Pentium 233 system with windows 98 and watching it do things like draw the windows or waiting for it to do something is very satisfying.

[@TheRandomGuy570]

Wow, I have that exact same Dell PowerEdge 1300! I have acquired it from my grandparents as it was used as their server. I have installed Windows Server 2003 on mine and it runs great! These Dell servers were beasts.

[@mori7423]

That is a great "project", I am amazed on how some technologies are still capable of being completely usable on older hardware, this channel is extremely underrated. The amount of work and research put in this vid is not comparable to the amount of subs the channel has. This inspired me to launch a minecraft server on Toshiba Satellite using gentoo, my gawd

[@harpskid]

Please keep the retro hardware with modern OS content going! I really wanna see how hard you can push some of these systems as a daily driver. If you wanna do some "newer" hardware, maybe try to run some games in lutris (think a first gen i5 with an old HD 7970 gpu (they actually have vulkan/dx12 support!)

[@breddie_is_rookie]

My 2nd gen i5 with integrated hd 3000 didn't support vulkan on linux No proton gaming for me lmao

[@harpskid]

@@breddie_is_rookie but the hd7970 amd card does (with some kernal tweaks)

[@sonicfon]

@@breddie_is_rookie I had an Pentium B960 on my laptop, and later switched it for i5-2640m. Nighr and Day. Oh, and you should get mesa for Opengl to work for proton. It even has drivers for HD2000/3000/4000/etc HD

[@neutrino78x]

lol an Intel Core i5 isn't retro, that came out 2009. how old are you, like 18? lol. Until we go to 128 bit platforms, to me, retro would be 32 bit and lower.

[@harpskid]

@@neutrino78x You realize that was 14 years ago right? In 2010 if you had asked me if I thought a computer from 1996 was retro, I would say yes. I'm 23.

[@afrenchcocorico164]

I really adore the way you make these videos, and your personality which one could say "swear a little much" even thought it makes the video 10 times more interesting

[@Anthrit]

This was a fun watch. Enjoying every second of slowness lol.

[@oglothenerd]

I agree, computers taking time is satisfying.

[@crsorsmth9951]

The part where you actually played on the server really brought back memories of me playing and hosting at the same time on my AMD Athlon X2 4200+. It was fine for older games or just for the teamspeak server, but Minecraft really brought that computer to its knees. No other friend had the initiative to do this, all of them had better pcs than I did xD.

[@RainNColer]

so i found the youtube representation of programming socks (even though there's no programming invovled, and no socks)

[@WindowsG]

what makes you think im not wearing socks..

[@JohnCrawford1979]

Arch was created in 2002, back when a 400 Mhz Pentium II would still be a relatively common home computer. Heck, I was using my IBM Aptiva that I got in 1996 as my main PC in college from about 1999 - 2001. Then I had a HP Pavilion that was a 400 Mhz Pentium II with around 128 MB RAM. I still have it today as a retro gaming PC.

[@Yuzuki1337]

You're absolutely unhinged and I mean that as a compliment. :D Thanks for the fun video! :)

[@chitan1362]

I wonder what would happen if you disabled CPU mitigations. I wonder how much of a performance gain that would bring.

[@koduflower2000]

1:28 Not gonna lie, the video bump was so cool! It was awesome! The part 1:34 went like a really cool TV show jingle. THIS IS AWESOME!!! 😃😎

[@cleanycloth]

I once installed Debian 11 x86 on a 400MHz Pentium II tower, though it's much less cooler than yours. It does have a 64MB Radeon 7000, a SB Live 5.1, an SD card as a boot drive, and 512MB RAM in it, so it's got something going for it :P Unbelievably it worked first try. Even without firmware for the GPU it dropped into a desktop without any faff. Slow as balls but it was almost usable :P

[@pianokeyjoe]

Reminds me of me installing Debian 9 on a P3 server with the built in ATI rage XL 8MB.. It worked without issue complete with MWM and CDE desktop but wow was it slow! And I had 2GB ram! Seems that ATI rage XL was the culprit.. Sadly, no PCI cards around to install only AGP for P4 systems so I was stuck with the onboard VGA but still, it worked.. just not usable for much..too slow. How did Linux of Year 2000 work so fast and so well on this same hardware?

[@nullderef]

`free -h` loads a whole free ELF image into memory... the most lightweight way to measure memory usage would be to have a `cat` alternative without switches and dump contents of `/proc/meminfo` onto the screen... that's a whole 1 read syscall, 1 write syscall and 1 exit syscall. probably could do so in like 200 bytes of raw x86 asm incl headers

[@SpicyPillowo]

I think you could create a classicube server running on it It would be very cool

[@amberisvibin]

hi snooooopppppiiiiieeee :3 very cool video I like it a lot there's a lot of cutiesnoopie noises my heart is gonna melt

[@leviticus_internet]

It’s just satisfying watching these sorts of videos.

[@rogo7330]

"free(): invalid pointer" is hillarious and disturbing at the same time error that ever could your login prompt print out, especially when it works after trying several times for no obvious reason)))

[@GeoStreber]

Btw, you don't need Putty anymore on windows. Both of the shells now have ssh installed by default. Standard command is "ssh user@host", just as it should be.

[@laden6675]

Putty is more than just `ssh` though...

[@Mamiya645]

Delicious, delicious despair! I'm subscribing and feel inspired to renovate this adorable Thinkpad x100e into full function.

[@zulc22]

you changed the default SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional to SigLevel = Required TrustedOnly, which is why you had to do that, I think. since it was complaining about not finding database signatures

[@CaptainUltimaFTW]

the sheer fact that Minecraft 1.12.2 ran at all... amazing work Snoopie :3

[@marcischneider9093]

Snoopie saying "okie dokie" is the cutest thing ever lmao 🥺

[@pseydtonne]

I too have been putting Arch Linux on an old Dell workstation. I feel so giddy that someone else got this bug in their head around the same time. My maker space received a Dell Precision 670 with 2 GB of DDR2 ECC registered RAM, dual Xeons of the 2006 era, and an odd combination of IDE, SCSI, and early SATA ports. Someone had installed Debian on an IDE hard drive. Changing its root password still left us with an old drive being slow. I plugged in an SSD and walked through Arch's steps. ...slogged through them. ...revised them. ...made shell scripts to automate them ever so slightly. I went through the keyring sludge, too. I should turn this into a video. Thank you so much!

[@GRIM_DROWNED]

We just got to put the "shit into the fuck"

[@Splarkszter]

That case is so horrible and complicated. I LOVE IT, i want one.

[@breathinginpizza]

Nice calm ASMR video i love it😀also thank you for the "Siglevel = Never"

[@TransDeer]

Shoutout to the Blahaj, best PC Linux budddy

[@eDoc2020]

My first real Linux install (10 yrs ago at this point) was Arch and after my primary P4 2.2 I also installed it on my 550MHz laptop. It wasn't too terrible. Before seeing this I was thinking of picking up the higher end PE 2600 version of this server and see what I can do with it, which yes would include Minecraft. But none of this cheating by only running a server, I'm talking about the whole client as well. I managed over 20fps on a PIII 450 with 256 megs of RAM so it should work out great, right? Maybe I could even manage KZbin.

[@torphedo6286]

Your channel always gives me a burning desire to install Linux on random shit at 2am, thanks for posting :)

[@laden6675]

and wear thigh highs, right?

[@HeroRareheart]

Oh no, I have wandered to the Arch community in me search for making my P4 systems work.

[@DistrosProjects]

In the future, I'd recommend using cfdisk to format the drive as it's interactive.

[@itspaafekuto]

If you look very carefully around 16:00, it did tell you specifically to run `pacman -Sy`, not `pacman -Syu`, the last "u" being responsible for the full system upgrade. EDIT - Ah, you noticed immediately after.

[@amthystxx]

I’m sad that I can’t say that Linux Arch is my first Linux install :( Technically I used mint for 1.5 days before installing it.

[@windowsagent981]

Snoopie is real cute.. But like- Why? Just- Why? Why not use it on your main system? It's going to run MUCH better trust me.

[@sdvcs-o2v]

16:50 i ran into this problem yesterday and i spent lots of time reasrching until i found you dude

[@Nikolai508]

Installation guide does suggest installing a few bits and pieces like a text editor, man-db, etc during the pacstrap base install.

[@sdvcs-o2v]

i'm lucky to watch this masterpiece so much helpful

[@PenguinConspiracyProject]

this video is pure chaos... and I'm here for it!

[@yjk_ch]

29:16 I love the fact that grub-install says "Adding boot entry to UEFI Firmware Settings" on non-EFI machine.

[@KamuiS]

When I saw what your pacstrap command was, i was just waiting for the moment when you realized that you don't have an editor. They were taken out of base about 2 years ago I think. 🙂 EDIT: Side note... you seem like Druaga1 with how you do things.

[@solcraftdev]

This video's existance made me change my mind about having EndeavourOS which is basically Arch's equivalent of Pop!_OS and swtich to real pop!_os because pain

[@-x21-]

FYI you shouldn't be missing ram. The ATI Rage ii usually has 2 mb of ram on those servers. The missing 40mb of ram is likely something malfunctioning. EDIT: I would try using openj9 too.

[@therealblurrybarber]

I found an old toshiba satellite with a core duo II. It was a windows 7 laptop. Someone had done some work to it as it had 4gb RAM to my surprise. I had used linux for a little over a year at that point maybe? I decided to install vanilla arch for the first time and build my desktop with i3. Best decision ever. I learned more about linux and computers from that one project than i did in the previous year. I had tokjeep it lightweight, yet i was able to rice it out to a beautiful UI. I still grab this laptop almost every weekend. Use it for coding practice

[@leonbishop7404]

didnt watch the video yet but I already can tell that it's gonna be legendary tier content

[@averagearchuser]

this channel is extremely underrated

[@koduflower2000]

Whoa, didn't know you could do that, Snoopie. You're so smart! 😉😍 I use arch, BTW.

[@dorktales254]

22:42, Linux kernel 6.1 on a machine that predates winXP. Gotta love Linux

[@kreuner11]

It says ln -sf on the wiki on -af, idk where that came from

[@TabooVector]

i fuking love you're starts man epic its like im back in the early 90's or early stages of yt before google takeover lov it

[@foobar2653]

Not only can you run a root filesystem over NFS you could also netboot the machine, so the only storage in the actual computer is the ROMS for the BIOS and the NetBoot BIOS ROM.

[@relativeease4733]

25:25 the guide has a typo. The command should be `ln -sf`, which creates a symbolic link as opposed to a hard link. This is only an issue if the timezone file updates, as you created an inode-level reference as a file, rather than a reference to the file as it exists in the filesystem.

[@relativeease4733]

26:31 this issue of "not having an editor" can be sidestepped by including other packages as a part of the pacstrap command before the first arch-chroot. Personally, in addition to the three necessary packages I make sure I install vim, iwd, and base-devel.

[@relativeease4733]

31:40 You can manually add ip routes, addresses, and DNS information. DNS information is set in resolv.conf(5), and the IP information is all managed through arcane incantations of ip(8). Also, iwd has an embedded DHCP client you need to manually enable (I know). The rules for this config are in 4.3 on the archwiki.

[@relativeease4733]

I am a fool and didn't read the pinned comment. Sue me.

[@OlegDorbitt]

So, it turns out I installed archlinux32 for the first time in my life almost exactly at the same time as you! And I ran into the same keyring issue, though it wasn't as extreme ('pacman-key --populate archlinux32' fixed all the issues).

[@Sypaka]

thats why when bootstrapping, i add "nano" after all the "base linux linux-firmware" voodoo.

[@DiamondSaberYT]

This was enjoyable to watch :D

[@blaqberryishere]

i love how you got the same hairstyle that im trying to get xd

[@joshuaorthodox]

I am a C programmer. free(): invalid pointer basically means it is trying to stop using a portion of memory that it isn't already using. It's probably due to memory leaks in the source code.

[@FatheredPuma81]

I remember running a Minecraft server on my very low end Phone by just installing Java and a vanilla server with a terminal app. I had to set chunks to 1 and could at most move 1 chunk every 20-30 seconds otherwise I'd get disconnected from the server being overloaded. This somehow runs faster???

[@frozendude707]

25:44 you get both sed and gawk from base, not to mention head, tail and cat, be grateful for these luxuries!

[@yomurita]

26:36 you can pacstrap it again from outside the chroot.

[@GoodGirlPeruru]

"Very useful if you don't have a rack- like me! (I am STILL working on it.)" More relatable words have never been spoken.

[@alt666]

I need to do something with my old thinkpad. Its one of the ones with a built in music player under the mouse buttons. I'd say which one exactly but i don't feel like digging it out atm.

[@dizzymeta187]

Love your videos they are video entertaining for a fellow linux nerd ^-^

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

The ATI 3D Rage II was common because of the wide support on various Operating Systems. Nobody really cared that it was a potato.

[@deathkeys1]

may I suggest whenever trying to edit files on a bare bones system you use "vi", it is fairly standard it is vim, but lacks the stuff we like, though it does the job.

[@MthaMenMon]

All fun till you realize its power consumption XD What a nice video, keep it going!

[@michaelfissel1357]

I let out a very audible, JohnTron-style "WHAT!?" when you first loaded into the world. I seriously can't believe that a single Pentium 2 can run any remotely modern server software, let alone COMPILE anything.

[@Diazepamo]

I always wanted a PII 400 back in the day when I was a kid but of course it was way too expensive so I got a K6-2 400 instead which I payed for myself as a paperboy. I drove to the store by bus bought the CPU, 64 MB SD RAM and a ASUS P5A-B ALI AT board because I couldn't afford the 10 Euros for a ATX board. Did this in the morning of some day in May of 1999. Took the whole day to built and upgrade my 166 MMX Pentium. It was hard work because I never had anything done like this before and I had no internet to look up how to do it. In the end the loading LED was lit up all the time and I think I had to press the reset button to power it on. But it was fast, could play Half-Life and UT in double digit fps

[@TENSE1983videos]

ive been using linux on raspberry pi for a few weeks now and its fun

[@bryophyta9500]

I think the ln -af was typo, because on the wiki it's now ln -sf which makes much more sense.

[@bernardev3]

Try out Debian 12 "bookworm" on these slow computers!

[@bernardev3]

Up

[@cydonyn]

If you really want to max it out, you can get dual 450mhz p2s, and if you could get the 1gb, that's if you want to dump anymore money into it, but i think betweent he ram and dual 450mhz p2s it would be maybe $50. IDK, i'm old and messed with a bunch of old servers like this when i was in highscool and college that well the higshcool and college weren't using anymore. It was surprising what you could do with those old servers then, obviosuly now 15-16yrs later they seem much more limited, and ineffcient, but they are really cool and neat to mess with.

[@BenTheMiller]

The "siglevel" wasn't the same when you typed it in a second time, could that have made if fail? 17:10 SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional 18:07 = Required TrustedOnly nvm you found it

[@bbqgiraffe3766]

8:35 i can confirm its unstable on Arch32, i tried to get it working on an old intel atom and it would sometimes crash with errors and sometimes run fine

[@lfox02]

The regular archinstall used to be kinda unstable a year or two ago as well lol

[@sdvcs-o2v]

i had a deep believe that you can't run arch 32 on such type of old devices due to the small size they've got and googling the partition minimum space needed for swap root etc, was nearly unfoundable