

I want to copy lines, do multi-line edits and more. Vim will greatly speed up your process (or emacs but I tend to find nano way underqualified for the job.

Since the 'disk' is actually stored in RAM, keep the installed software at this point to bare minimum you need. Your machine/hardware/config/preferences may very well differ so take what you need and research the rest.

It might contain a few useful tips for anyone else doing a similiar setup.Īs you may or may not know, Arch has a great wiki which contains a whole lot of quality information on much of the steps I have to take. Since it was a pain recalculating the sectors and since I didn't have boot on the disk (it was a clone of another dynamic one, significantly complicating matters and I'm a n00b as far as disk (advanced) formats go, figured it would be a lot quicker to just start all over again. I thought I'd share this sudden insight I had after having done a few ArchLinux setups.
