Alexander Rowland prestidigitation

Installing Arch Linux with EFI and GRUB

Download the Arch Linux ISO (torrent recommended).
Create a live USB of Arch Linux.
- In GNU/Linux:
  - Find out the name of your USB drive with lsblk. Make sure that it is not mounted.
  - Run the following command, replacing /dev/**sdx** with your drive, e.g. /dev/sdb. (Do not append a partition number, so do not use something like /dev/sdb**1**)
  - dd bs=4M if=path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress oflag=sync

This brief guide is written from my own experience with migrating a large (~5GB) MySQL database to PostgreSQL for a Rails project.

No warranties, guarantees, support etc. Use at your own risk and, as always, ENSURE YOU MAKE BACKUPS FIRST!

I chose [pgloader][1] because it's extremely fast. YMMV.

Replace mysql2 gem with pg in Gemfile.
Update config/database.yml for PostgreSQL. I used [Rails' template][2] as a starting point.

	1. What is a block-level element? What are some examples of block-level elements? What are they used for?

	A block-level element occupies the entire space of its parent element (a.k.a. container), thereby constituting a "block". Examples of block-level elements include: <nav> <form> <div> <pre>.

	<nav> Used for a section of a page that links to other pages or parts within the page.

	<form> Document section that contains interactive controls to submit info to a web server.

	<div> Generic container for flow content and doesn't inherently represent anything. Used for such things as grouping elements for purposes such as styling.