I got two brand-new 2TB drives for a RAID1 data partition. It will hold all the stuff that I don’t want to lose. For the root partition, I’m reusing a 400G drive that I own already.<\/p>\n
I’m downloading the most recent Arch Linux download from here<\/a>. I’m using bit torrent, because big downloads are expensive for open-source projects and bit torrent doesn’t cost them. I’m writing it to a USB stick on my Mac, which apparently requires contortions like this:<\/p>\n Fortunately, the BIOS of my server recognizes the USB and boots into Arch. First stop, making sure that my boot disk is\u00a0 working well:<\/p>\n That is taking a while (2hrs+), but probably worth it. Next is step 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Links to all parts: Step 1: assemble and test hardware<\/a>; Step 2: install Arch Linux<\/a>; Step 3: networking<\/a>; Step 4: make it an Indie Box!<\/a>; Step 5: deploy Shaarli via Indie Box<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got two brand-new 2TB drives for a RAID1 data partition. It will hold all the stuff that I don’t want to lose. For the root partition, I’m reusing a 400G drive that I own already. I’m downloading the most recent Arch Linux download from here. I’m using bit torrent, because big downloads are expensive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical","tag-indiebox","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}# convert to the format the Mac apparently likes better:\r\n> hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o archlinux-2013.11.01-dual.img archlinux-2013.11.01-dual.iso \r\n# list current disks:\r\n> diskutil list\r\n# insert USB stick, and list them again, to see which one was added:\r\n> diskutil list\r\n# for me, it was \/dev\/disk6\r\n# make sure it isn't mounted\r\n> diskutil unmountDisk \/dev\/disk6\r\n> sudo dd if=archlinux-2013.11.01-dual.img.dmg of=\/dev\/rdisk6 bs=1m\r\n> sync\r\n# then eject<\/pre>\n
> smartctl --test=long \/dev\/sda<\/pre>\n