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| My Raspberry Pi sitting on my switch sitting on my desktop PC |
After downloading the image and copying it to my SD card, the device booted without issue.
You're met with a rather unassuming login screen consisting of nothing more than this:
I logged in fine and had a quick look around the file system. First thing I noticed was the lack of a user folder under /home. After reading a bit about Arch Linux, especially their philosophy, I can understand why. Essentially Arch aims to provide the bones of a system that you build up for yourself.
I tried pining out to the internet without luck however. I checked /etc/rc.conf to find the usual:
interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
gateway=
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| The welcoming login screen |
I tried pining out to the internet without luck however. I checked /etc/rc.conf to find the usual:
interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
gateway=
Which should enable DHCP. This wasn't a problem however as I was going to put a static IP in there anyway. So I updated it to read:
interface=eth0
address=10.1.1.11
netmask=255.255.255.0
broadcast=10.1.1.255
gateway=10.1.1.1
then restarted Raspberry Pi using reboot. Once it came back up I tested it by pinging my desktop computer, the router, then out to a Google DHCP server.
[root@ArchPi ~]# ping 10.1.1.10
PING 10.1.1.10 (10.1.1.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.1.1.10: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.572 ms
^C
--- 10.1.1.10 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.572/0.572/0.572/0.000 ms
[root@ArchPi ~]# ping 10.1.1.1
PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=255 time=1.47 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=255 time=1.62 ms
^C
--- 10.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.478/1.551/1.625/0.083 ms
[root@ArchPi ~]# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=38 time=208 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=37 time=208 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=38 time=207 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 207.756/208.129/208.624/0.521 ms
YAY! It was working, or at least I thought.
When I tried pinging google.com, I got this:
[root@ArchPi ~]# ping google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
Obviously if I can ping out to the internet, but can't find a named host I must be missing some DNS servers. I edited /etc/resolv.conf and added these lines:
nameserver 202.37.101.1
nameserver 202.37.101.2
Which are my ISPs primary and secondary DNS servers. Success this time, I was able to resolve names
[root@ArchPi ~]# ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.237.36) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from syd01s05-in-f4.1e100.net (74.125.237.36): icmp_req=1 ttl=47 time=50.9 ms
64 bytes from syd01s05-in-f4.1e100.net (74.125.237.36): icmp_req=2 ttl=47 time=57.2 ms
I then ran pacman -Syu to update my package lists.
Success!
