Arch, as a concept, always seems so appealing to me. However, whenver I try to installing it, something goes wrong. Just the other day I tried on an old Pentium 4 (3.4GHz with HT) that I acquired, and I followed the beginner's guide religiously. Initially it was fine, and I had my GNOME desktop up. Then I shut it down.
Now when I turn it on, it gets stuck and fails to enable networking during boot, and although it shows the GNOME logon screen, it doesn't manage to do anything after you enter your login info.
This is just one of many failed attempts. What am I doing wrong, I wonder...