No Way Know How

1 )  When the SATA-controller is set to "RAID On" in Bios, the hard disk (at least the SSD) is not recognized. Set to "Off" or "AHCI" before attempting to install Arch. ?) The   "NVM Express"   SSD requires adding "nvme" in modules to detect the PCIe SSD. Edit your  /etc/mkinitcpio.conf  file: ... MODULES="... nvme" ... # mkinitcpio -p linux Then update the bootloader. where  linux  is the name of the image loaded on boot. If you installed  linux-mainline AUR  then change that to  linux-mainline . This note from my last XPS pre-install agenda ... 2) Download linux headers and broadcom-wl driver module tarball to another computer and transfer to the XPS by usb/flashcard. I assume I need to install these in the live arch environment to give me access to the internet, then go to step 3), continue installation, and remember to install the drivers in chroot as well... did I do this? I can't remember.

The LVs I set up for my Arch install are getting full - / is 15G and /home is 150G. Both are pushing 90%, so time to extend. [edit] Well, that was stupidly easy. system-config-lvm in the AUR. download it and install it. tar -xvf [file] cd [file] makepkg -sri run it and select/edit volumes in the logical view. It let me extend /home and / in the live system. wow.

[edit: gave up trying to build my own package for these drivers - too hard for me right now! Found drivers for the mx500 series in the AUR. Worked a treat when I first installed them, but can't seem to find the printer now. another issue for the list!] [edit] I needed to start and enable the service: systemctl  start  org.cups.cupsd.service systemctl enable  org.cups.cupsd.service The printer is canon pixma mx535. the site actually has linux drivers, but only in rpm http://www.canon-printerdrivers.com/2015/02/canon-pixma-mx535-driver-download.html?m=0 I've downloaded the first one, gunzipped it, then extracted it from the tar tar xvf scangearmp-mx530series-2.30-1-rpm.tar This gave me a bunch of individual rpm files. I ignore the i686 ones, leaving scangearmp-common-2.30-1.x86_64.rpm scangearmp-mx530series-2.30-1.x86_64.rpm I run rpmextract.sh  scangearmp-common-2.30-1.x86_64.rpm and it gives me /etc and /usr filepaths containing udev rule